Digital BW, The Print

Mj
In theory I totally agree with your logic...I'm not one that needs the latest and greatest either ... Constructively you may be unintentionally shooting yourself in the foot however .. 
PS 6 falls way short of several features that most shooters can really use.. i.e. .. in this case far superior B&W processing, much improved color management, added 16 bit control for most menu items..missing in 6 , HDR , Panorama's etc etc ..It's a long list.. I would honestly recommend CS3 as a place to sit tight ...not PS 6.. I still have and use 6 on a machine but it's for old plugins I use for proofing..
As far as Light room goes..2 had so many catalogue issues that most of us went nuts with it..I can't tell you how many catalogues I lost or got screwed up back then.. 3 especially 3.5 really made major strides stabilizing catalogue issues and in noise correction and image processing that really benefitted image processing when shooting at higher iso settings.. Kinda tuff to do without I think.

jimbo
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: njfranknj 
  To: DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com 
  Sent: Friday, February 10, 2012 9:44 AM
  Subject: Re: [Digital BW] I wouldn't dream of getting rid of Lightroom


    
  As a mostly hobby photographer with a small amount of exhibition work, I find it most useful as a fast import device with the ability to do my first cut editing before using APS6 for heavy-duty editing, final adjustments and printing.

  Like some of you, I obviously don't want to spend the time it takes to have to learn a new program every time something *NEW* shows up, thus the APS6 and LR2.7 - they have what I need, I know and can use effortlessly, with a decade of experience in the case of APS6 (I've tested versions of CS and found it to be unbearably slow, in comparison, and too different to re-learn; there are some tools I wish I had, but they aren't worth the cost).

  LR is useless for serious image editing, but great for importing hundreds of images quickly and making initial adjustments of images with right-shifted exposure out of the camera, light initial sharpening and keep/delete decisions.

  I tested LR3 on my Intel Core 7 PC and found it to be no improvement over 2.7, but 4 beta on a Win7-64 clean install on the same machine might be a worthwhile upgrade for me, being faster and having a simplified top-down editing workflow that actually makes sense to me.

  My take-away experience is: use what works for you, not what you think is supposed to be the hot-shot setup.



  

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