Lightroom Replacement

Guassian

Hi all,

Long time lurker, 1st time poster.

I'm sick of Lightroom 6 and it's slowness, previews and imports take an age and unless you pay their rental scheme (which I'm not prepared to do) they are obviously not interesting in fixing anything so I'm wanting to move to something new.

Has anyone dumped Lightroom and what did you move to? Something that will actually take advantage of modern hardware and multiple CPU cores would be good.

I shoot with a Nikon D7100 for anyone interested.

icemanonline

RawTherapee RawTherapee 5.3 Released

I use this.... takes time getting to grips with this software but it's free and is good, very good.

Ice

snerkler

I’ve tried so many different pieces of software but always come back to lightroom. All the others seem clunky in comparison. Imports have always been quick/instant for me but previews take time to build especially if you build 1:1’s. I can still edit whilst it’s building them though.

Guassian

Yeah thats kinda my fear, happy to spend the money on an alternative but there's very little point if all I'm going to do is go back to LR.

I was reading and watching some vids on Capture One yesterday which look quite interesting. Any thoughts anyone?

shotokan101

What's the full spec. of your PC - CPU/RAM/GRAPHICS/HD/SSD ?

...and what's ypour workflow process from shooting to hitting the LR Shortcut ? - i.e. getting the images onto the PC and are you shooting RAW or JPG ?

johnaalex

I am currently trying DxO Elite on a free 30 day trial. I am very impressed with it. I am not a Lightroom user so I cannot say how it compares.

Guassian

Always shoot RAW   JPG, RAw to Slot 1, JPG to Slot 2. In the vast majority of cases the JPG's get deleted but are there incase of card loss or failure.

PC is an Intel Hex Core 8700k overclocked to 5.0ghz, 32gb DDR4 RAM and a GTX1080Ti with various SSD's and mech drives. I store my LR catalog on 2x RAID 5 1tb Samsung SSD's, photo storage is on 2x RAID 0 4tb Internal drives which backup to my NAS automatically every week.

The frustrating bit is LR hardly utilizes the CPU architecture or bandwidth and by all accounts CC is no better.

Guassian

Ooh a free trial, in Berlin on work for the rest of the week so will give it a go when I get back, many thanks!

ChuckMountain

Nice bit of kit, but you can't have raid 5 with only two disks?

How are you physically reading the cards onto pc?

johnaalex

If you have time check out some of the short demos on the DxO website.