John Bean (UK)

I deleted all this stuff days ago so I’m relying on memory. And I have more important things on my mind at present so please excuse me if I finish with a sort of “whatever”. Life is too short :-)

They were just ordinary xmp files. On my iMac the Exposure X5 folder had two sub-folders, one with the xmp files and another with some unknown stuff. On my Win7 machine there was only one...

Oddly it only did this on my Windows 7 laptop. On the iMac it behaved itself and put the xmp’s in its own folders.

All a bit too buggy for me.

I have no idea why yours works, I only know why mine (same version) doesn’t. Parts of the licensing checking are 32-bit apps which simply do not work anymore, making installation impossible and...

Ok, after much testing it’s gone. Better luck with X6... ;-)

Now the annoying part: it politely creates subfolders for its data but still dumps individual xmp sidecars next to every single image....

The UI is absolutely horrendous and it has never been reliable enough to use for my purposes. The only good part is the price and that it has good cross platform support.

You’re right, Bruce. He simply doesn’t get it.

I can’t imagine anyone wanting to make a simple “P&S” camera out of it as he seems to be suggesting but I can think of lots of interesting uses many...

Thanks for that. I looked at virtual machines a while ago and having used Vmware on Windows and Linux (to allow emulation of the other) I gave up and dual boot instead. Too many potential pitfalls...

That says quite a lot about you. As you say, each to his own.

Yes, I noticed that some profiles were disastrous in X5 and fine in LR. Rendering is slower in X5 but I’ve had no issues with my Thunderbolt 2 SSDs. Can’t comment on magnetic disks, I don’t use...

I have a LR6 licence but it no longer works on a Mac (still has 32-bit parts) and life is too short to run LR on a Windows machine. I’d still be using LR6 too if it still worked.

“ I don't like or use catalogs. I prefer my own way of creating folders to organize my images.”

I keep reading this and I’m unsure why people assume that a program using a database (catalog) to...

Mac (Retina 4K, 21.5-inch, Late 2015)
3.1GHz quad core i5
8GB 1867MHz DDR3

I boot from an external 1TB SSD in a Thunderbolt 2 case along with a second 1TB SSD for the images. On the original...

Answers in order: yes, yes, well enough, not close.
The UI is fully configurable, you can move/hide panels as you wish. Don't know about shortcuts yet.
Copy/paste/repeat just like LR.

No. GIMP is PS-like not LR-like. Darktable (shudder) is what you need if you're after a free LR/X5-like program. Best of luck with that one.

I must be the exception to the rule but I've never found LR (Classic) particularly slow on my ageing iMac, although I did find it a pain under Windows. Exposure X5 runs equally well on either...

“ The downsides are - no autofocus, no IBIS. They are cinema cameras.”

Yes, the clue is in the name of the product.

Reminds me of the old truism about reinventing a better mousetrap. Pointless exercise unless the intention is really just to extract more money from a gullible consumer.

Yes, the Twilight Zone...

Saturate the colours and it looks very Martin Parr to me. No, I don’t understand the point of most of his images either, Magnum or not.