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The point about open source is complex. I'm a software engineer and I routinely work with tons of open source. There are quite a lot of different governance models for open source projects, and they are relevant to the final quality of the product. Some are excellent and provide focus and consistency, even though there are lots of contributions by different people; others suffer from the pitfalls mentioned by JoJu.

 

Unfortunately, in the photography field the scenario is definitely unsatisfactory. Also, while as an engineer I can use also "raw" (in the sense of low-level) tools, such those found in the Unix command line, I frankly don't want them for my photos. Photography is a visual discipline and I want visual tools (in some cases the command line can be still useful, but it's an exception).

 

Many years ago I started filling the gap, writing an open source application for photo management and processing. But while it's rather easy for me to deal with the DAM part, I'm not expert at all in the raw processing thing. I was unable to involve people with the required knowledge. In the end, it is just another aborted project, like many in the field.

 

I pretty much agree with Klaus, DAM and raw processing are two different things and should be offered as a two separate, integrable things. Frankly, I'm fine with the DAM part of Lightroom. The RAW processing part is good enough, but I'd like to be easily able to plug in a different, better converter. Unfortunately, it's not possible without making the workflow more complex.

stoppingdown.net

 

Sony a6300, Sony a6000, Sony NEX-6, Sony E 10-18mm F4 OSS, Sony Zeiss Vario-Tessar T* E 16-70mm F4 ZA OSS, Sony FE 70-200mm F4 G OSS, Sigma 150-600mm Æ’/5-6.3 DG OS HSM Contemporary, Samyang 12mm Æ’/2, Sigma 30mm F2.8 DN | A, Meyer Gorlitz Trioplan 100mm Æ’/2.8, Samyang 8mm Æ’/3.5 fish-eye II | Zenit Helios 44-2 58mm Æ’/2 
Plus some legacy Nikkor lenses.
  


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new Nikon gear - by Klaus - 01-06-2015, 08:44 AM
new Nikon gear - by Klaus - 01-06-2015, 08:46 AM
new Nikon gear - by popo - 01-06-2015, 10:47 AM
new Nikon gear - by JJ_SO - 01-06-2015, 11:11 AM
new Nikon gear - by Brightcolours - 01-06-2015, 11:21 AM
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new Nikon gear - by Klaus - 01-06-2015, 12:18 PM
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new Nikon gear - by stoppingdown - 01-06-2015, 04:45 PM
new Nikon gear - by Scythels - 01-06-2015, 04:46 PM
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