03-26-2013, 06:15 AM
Once upon a time a famous mobile-phone designing brand from California came up with a real nice program - that were the things before everything else became an app. They called it Aperture and two or three persons still like it because of it's fantastic user interface. The mobile-phone brand changed it a couple of months (or years? who knows...) before to some dull, grey, boring looking interface everybody else has, too. But I guess after they found out their mobile-phone still is not powerful enough to run that app, they gave it up.
No updates, even new cameras are not longer supported and iPhones are not storing RAW anyway, so who the hell would care? The interesting things were not much it's RAW conversions - others did better, I was told - but the way to organize the pictures. Others did copy it, but sadly badly and even worse. Which is great, because the late CEO of this mobile phone company once complained about another app-factory these are lazy guys because they couldn't close the safety breaches of their shitty software as fast as others programmed viruses and trojans to make a use of it. But it turns out, as he passed away, the mobile-phone company became likewise a bunch of lazy guys when it comes to software made for bigger screens than only 10 inches.
Anyway, these days a decent RAW converter is what it has to be - not understandable, time-consuming, confusing, with gazillions of parameters to play around with and the organization in file folders worked 30 years ago and that's the way it has to be! Basta. Forever!
Oh, and now I'm forced to look after things like DxO and C1 and Capture NX2 just because a camera manufacturer released a model a full week to early which came as a shock or a real unpleasant surprise to them RAW converter makers.
And the memories of that nice Aperture thing are still vivid...
No updates, even new cameras are not longer supported and iPhones are not storing RAW anyway, so who the hell would care? The interesting things were not much it's RAW conversions - others did better, I was told - but the way to organize the pictures. Others did copy it, but sadly badly and even worse. Which is great, because the late CEO of this mobile phone company once complained about another app-factory these are lazy guys because they couldn't close the safety breaches of their shitty software as fast as others programmed viruses and trojans to make a use of it. But it turns out, as he passed away, the mobile-phone company became likewise a bunch of lazy guys when it comes to software made for bigger screens than only 10 inches.
Anyway, these days a decent RAW converter is what it has to be - not understandable, time-consuming, confusing, with gazillions of parameters to play around with and the organization in file folders worked 30 years ago and that's the way it has to be! Basta. Forever!
Oh, and now I'm forced to look after things like DxO and C1 and Capture NX2 just because a camera manufacturer released a model a full week to early which came as a shock or a real unpleasant surprise to them RAW converter makers.
And the memories of that nice Aperture thing are still vivid...