I've been using Aperture since the day it came out. I don't use most of its fancy features, but I do care about:
• Basic photo organization into albums
• RAW file handling
• Non destructive editing, cropping
• Basic color correction, exposure, etc (nothing beyond 5 seconds per pic)
• Email photos to Posterous
• Sync to my iPhone and AppleTV
I just got the new
Canon 5D Mark II last week. Late one night I saw it in stock at B&H and I jumped on it. Sounds impulsive, but I've been waiting for this camera for 2 years. My Canon XT is about to die.
I shot some photos this past weekend, but accidently shot in sRaw (small raw, 10mp) instead of full RAW (21mp). I tried importing my photos into Aperture, but turns out Aperture doesn't support sRaw. Well, i had been contemplating a switch to Lightroom for a while (or at least try it out to compare) so here was my opportunity.
Lightroom does support the Canon sRaw format, so that's a plus for them. But otherwise Lightroom was a huge FAIL.
• It was much slower. Every time I went to an image, there were multiple stages of "Rendering preview" before I saw something crisp and sharp. Aperture was much faster.
• Lightroom HAS NO EMAIL FUNCTION. HUGE FAIL. The whole premise of Posterous is that every media application out there has email integrated. But Lightroom doesn't. How is this ok? How can I not just click "Email" to send photos to someone by email? FAIL
• Lightroom export is a disaster. It uses all these presets with way too many options
• So how do you email photos? Export them and then attach to an email. Send the email, then delete the exported files. *sigh*. Ok. So there's an export preset for email. I tried it. It put the pics someplace semi random, and scaled them down to 640 pixels. What is this, 1995? 640 pixels for email? Come on.
• I just want to export large versions to my desktop, then email them, then delete. It was veryhard to do this.
• Lightroom photos won't sync to my iPhone/iPod/AppleTV. FAIL.
Admittedly I didn't get very deep into what Lightroom can or can't do, or how it compares to Aperture. But it doesn't matter. If I can't view my photos on my AppleTV, and I can't email them to Posterous, there is no chance in hell I'm going to even think about switching to this application.
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