[Leica] Canon Anything vs. DMR (Now: Editing)

[henningw at archiphoto.com (Henning Wulff)]

At 6:43 PM -0500 8/10/05, Robert D. Baron wrote:
>"Bill" <bill@photobynelsch.com> wrote:
>
>>The biggest drawback at the moment is that when I shoot RAW (DNG) I am
>>limited to using the Adobe Bridge/CS2 programs - Picasa does not recognize
>>DNG - yet.  And Adobe is such a humongous program that is just takes too
>>long for quick reviews and there is no easy way (at least that I have 
>>found)
>>to batch convert the DNG's to jpgs so that they work on Picasa and for
>>uploading to Smugmug.
>
>The best and fastest reviewing program I have found is Photo 
>Mechanic, http://www.camerabits.com/  .  I copy the images on my 
>compact flash cards (shot in Canon RAW formats) to a folder on my 
>hard drive and then open the folder in Photo Mechanic for a quick 
>review and edit before going on to Photoshop.  Did I say it was 
>fast?  It is really fast.  And I believe it supports DNG files.  You 
>can download a trial version to be sure.
>
>--Bob

I use iView MediaPro. It supports DNG, is very fast and has many 
other organizing and filing capabilities. I used a number of other 
programs before, including Extensis Portfolio, but switched to iView 
a while ago. I view all my pictures in it and edit them before 
starting up PS. Bridge is better than the old browser, but it is 
still a slug. I always have iView running while working on a number 
of pictures in PS so that I don't need to use Bridge. Works on Macs 
and Windows.

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