We Need An Adobe Lightroom True Competitor Locked

BackToNature1 wrote:

Batdude wrote:

Who has the balls to come out with a much better RAW converter that truly competes with Adobe Lightroom Classic? We need one.

The only reason why I use LR is because of (it's workflow, that's it!) but as a Fujifilm shooter the files it produces are really poor. When I was using the Fujifilm S5 Pro no problem, but then after several years after upgrading to newer cameras you can definitely see the problem. Color tones, film simulations, sharpness and detail is simply not there and you have to spend a LOT more time messing around with this nonsense. Fujifilm is Fujifilm, not Sony, although I get the feeling that Sony RAW files are easier to manage now over Fujifilm, with Lightroom that is.

That's the first problem. The second problem is that for importing/exporting Lightroom is SUPER SLOW.

One of the comments I liked from the thread "Do You Want 40MP?" is that someone said that more megapixels is only going to get worse. And that's true. But, the hardware is not the only problem, is the software that will be the bottleneck and will slow things up drastically as MP keep increasing.

Sure, if you don't shoot over 1000 photos it should be fine, but over that forget it.

I hope someone comes out with better faster software than Adobe Lightroom with the same or even better workflow and I would be delighted to make the change.

I read only two posts in this tread with both replies basically saying you are the problem. I get some folks don't like for other to say anything negative about what they like an find every reason to disregard anyone's own experiences.

Personally, the more competition, the better. Personally, I really don't like how more companies are going to this yearly subscription thing. So I really don't see things getting all that better for software processing. Especially when others seem to not really push these companies to really improve what they produce.

Better get used to it. Microsoft can be blamed. They started the subscription push years ago. There was a lot of pushback. They backed off only to start another push later. Now Office is subscription. MatLab is worse, it is a large fixed cost plus a yearly “maintenance fee” which is more than the Adobe subscription cost. Mathematica works the same way. Capture One has both a license and reduced cost upgrades and subscriptions.

To be fair it cost a lot of money to maintain S/W. Every time there is an OS update - there is the potential of breakage in application than has to be fixed. Capture One took the opportunity to rearchitect C1 when Apple transitioned to Apple silicon.  And of course, everyone wants the additional features. Sometimes many seem to think that they should get them for free!

Granted Apple’s yearly OS updates are free including many applications. However, Apple is not a S/W company. They are a H/W company. They can well afford to give away their S/W. If Microsoft had started out giving away there O/S, they would not have been around long. I can see why companies prefer the subscription model. It guarantees a more stable cash flow to make the planning and operations more efficient. And I also expect that translates to a better product for the users.