[Leica] Lightroom off on a tangent

[henningw at archiphoto.com (Henning Wulff)]

>At 05:11 PM 12/26/2007, you wrote:
>There are still a number of things I don't like about it, but it's 
>now my main work program. I still prefer iView as a cataloging 
>program, but (astoundingly!) since Microsoft has bought it they 
>haven't updated anything worthwhile, so it can't read the new file 
>formats. While the program was shareware, it got updated ASAP; when 
>it went commercial, it got updated within a month of new formats 
>coming out. Now MS has had it and it hasn't been touched in over a 
>year. It can't read M8 files.
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>>     *            Henning J. Wulff
>
>I'm using LR and iView, too, and iView catalogues all of my M8 files 
>with no problem.  I have iView Media Pro version 3.1.3 and haven't 
>upgraded to the Microsoft edition. You just can't enlarge the M8 DNG 
>files as they come straight out of the camera, but if you run the M8 
>files through the Adobe DNG convertor, you can.
>
>Tina
>

Thanks, Tina, I never thought to run the M8 files through the 
converter as they are already dng's. I do catalog the M8 files with 
iView, but the lack of ability to enlarge them reduces the value of 
the catalog.

The Microsoft 'upgrade' is pointless.

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