Even better if it could detect eye sharpness and reject bad focus! If you could just have a grid of full-res eyes previews fairly quickly in front of you, you could quickly narrow down what your options are. This is a huge slow down and the cause of a lot of headaches on set and after. immediate preview building: Lo res for immediacy, with eye detection and preview building of just the small eyes area to check focus on the fly. This would include rating images, drawing on the images for retouching notes, etcĥ. Client review, rating and edit platform: iPad, mobile, etc solution for the client to view images coming in without having to look over the photographers shoulder all day. (is there really still no live view support?)Ĥ. I have the best MacBook you can buy right now, and Lightroom is still slow. Dumping 50 cards a day, inputing the right start number every import is a huge hassle.Ģ. This would fall over into card importing also, as the custom naming number counter is 'dumb' and can't carryover numbering from the previous import. proper on the fly numbering and naming architecture to accommodate diverse workflows and folder structures: Scene, Day, Subject, Photographer, etc.
See what capture one is doing, they understand a lot of what you need on set. or it used to be, now no one even talks about it as even being an option. it's the butt of a lot of jokes on set, to my Lightroom advocacy embarrassment. If this can't get fixed there's not even a point of having it as a feature. Use the same camera on capture one and I can shoot all day without a problem, especially in recent C1 builds. The number of times I have tried to use Lightroom to tether, program freezes and camera connection dropping probably every 10 minutes cause it to be unusable. My first complaint is how unreliable it is. I get to witness and follow a lot of peoples workflows, and this is telling. though a lot of them are using C1 as well. The only people I know that use Lightroom are those that don't tether (i.e. I have never seen a professional use Lightroom to tether, nor have I had them request me to use it, I notice this carries on to their studio workflow as well.
I work post production primarily, and also as a dedicated DT to photographers around the country.