Digital BW, The Print

I too miss the simplicity of analog negatives, in pages, in binders.  
But I always found them hard to back up.  ;-)

BTW, I have recently become a fairly happy user of LR3.  I played with 
the beta when it originally came out, years ago, but was doing a lot of 
bit manipulations in PS7 at the time and didn't want to have to switch 
between the two.  I didn't need the cataloging features, as I don't do 
large volumes or any commercial work and have a folder/backup system 
that has been working for me since I switched to digital. 

But I don't do much bit manipulating any more, and I'm shooting mostly 
RAW, so for my annual Xmas book project (4-500 prints from ~100 images, 
all cropped to 8x8 and converted to B&W, and bound into 12 different 
books for various family members, all between Thanksgiving and 
Christmas) I decided to try LR3 and found it was much faster to work 
with than PS7.  Having the raw converter built in, and being able to 
apply the 1:1 crop factor across all selected images before beginning to 
B/W convert and tweak each one was a real convenience.  And having the 
thumbnail film strip along the bottom of the Develop screen reminds me 
how convenient the thumbnail navigator in PS7 is (compared to 
Bridge/CS5, for example).

I find the B/W converter in LR3 to be workable, and easier for me to 
manipulate than what I've found in CS5.  I haven't worked up the nerve 
to try Silver EfEx yet, as I'm afraid I'll love it and then have to buy 
it.  But maybe after tax refund time . . .  I print using QImage, using 
2 dedicated B/W printers driven by a laptop, so haven't explored LR3's 
print capabilities very far.  That will be for the future.  For now, I'm 
just pleased that I can process as many images as easily and quickly as 
I can with LR.

Cheers,
Kip
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Mark Savoia wrote:
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> I re-burn them / move them up from previous the "latest greatest" 
> backup media. They have gone from Zip Disks, Jazz Disks, Tape, 
> CDs.....and now even off-site clouds. These are the times I long for 
> analog negatives ;)
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