Sorry it’s been a while since I’ve made a post on this site. I have been updating my other blog a bit more regularly, you can check it out at http://torontoliving.wordpress.com/ I wanted to discuss some of my impressions of my new Nikon D60 over the past few weeks. I have a Macbook Pro as you may recall so I’ve been playing around with various software programs to organize, edit and catalog my photos. I started off with iPhoto of course which just happened to release an update two days after I got my camera giving it RAW image support for my new camera. I found that alright but the image editing features it offers are really sub-par. I have quite a bit of Adobe Photoshop experience so I thought I would give Adobe Lightroom 1.3.1 a try. Apparently lightroom is used by many photographers due to its more advanced image editing (which is non-destructive by the way). I also tried Apple’s Aperture 2 program for a while, found the editing much better then iPhoto but I think I didn’t like the long long time it takes to index the images. I found it really sucked the energy our of my computer occasionally and I had to quit the program to get my computer running normally again. The problem with lightroom right now is that it does not yet have an update for my camera (which is quite new on the market) and therefore does not support its RAW format. I’ve been simply playing around with the camera lately so I have just been shooting in JPEG format for now. I did a bit of research today and found out that Adobe did release an update for lightroom to support my camera but pulled it after it was discovered that it has been causing all sorts of problems. Interesting to say the least. I’m sure they will have the problems ironed out soon and get the update out again. In the mean time I have been happy using Lightroom but have to import my photos in RAW format using Nikon’s transfer application then export them from there into JPEG format and re-import them back into lightroom…or use Aperture for a while.
I’ve been very impressed with my camera by the way, don’t have much experience for comparison purposes but since I have been using a 7 year old point and shoot canon this is 100 times better, the picture quality is amazing and the camera just does sooooo much more.
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