Just a little buzz to see if anyone else is using lightroom 3 ar all. I'm a huge fan of the software but since I upgraded to 3 i seem to have some slowdown issues. I was ruuning 2.4 and it was running a dream. Now if i have a catalog with 300 or so photos in it i generally get some nasty slows. It happens mostly when i zoom to 1:1 mode but i never had this problem before. I'm using windows 7 64bit on a high end rig (q6600 overclocked, 8gb ram, 2 x nvidia 260gtx ) and its getting rather annoying. It some times happens when i copy settings and go to apply to another  or even just try to give a colour to a shot in grid mode.

I tried the adobe forums but just wondered if any other photographers out there using windows and lightroom have come across the same problems.

Problems aside what do people think about the new love that adobe have glittered onto lightroom.

-wizardR

Hi - Whilst we only have 32 bit systems - ( Quad ), I have just upgraded to Windows 7 and just today upgraded from Lightroom 2.7 ( which was running very well ), to version 3. I bought ver 3 as it has some snazzy items that will I think save some time and increase capability with some image processing.

However whilst I have been only working with it a couple of hours it does seem to be a bit slow with some aspects ( even loading images )- even though the blurb that I read earlier in the week suggests that it should be faster than previous versions.

TheLoke , Photographer  posted on 08/07/2010 17:06:14   Posted 9 times

Located:Norwich,Norfolk, UK
Member Since: 15/02/2009

Overall - it does look good and the snazzy bits that I have tried so far work very well..

TheLoke , Photographer  posted on 08/07/2010 17:07:44   Posted 9 times

Located:Norwich,Norfolk, UK
Member Since: 15/02/2009

I was using the beta download version of 3 and have now gone to the proper 3 and as you say it has slow down issues. Nothing seems to be as quick as the beta version.
No idea why, Just thought it was down to my computer.
Obviously that is not the case now.

Must be Windows or PC... I'm using LR3 on Mac OSX Snow Leopard on a MacBook Pro Intel Dual Core 2.66MHz Processor with 8 GB RAM and the speed is blinding - faster than 2 by about 70% and the integration with Photoshop CS5 is almost instant.

I'm using LR3 on my Mac Pro which has 14gb of ram and decent hard drives with Leopard and I have to say LR3 is a total bag of ****e.
I hate it with a passion compared to wonderful LR2, there were no problems at all before, now they bring out a new versions and it just has the most ridiculous of glitches.
I hate the speed, I hate the import layout, I hate the sharpening, I "love" the noise reduction although it does look unnatural. I despise the slide show.
My absolute gripes are as follows:

Speed

Import layout

Keywords not being remembered from one card to the next if you do multiple card imports (ie a wedding)

it doesn't remember the last flag settings you had for a particular folder (ie if I am looking at just picked and non picked files for jack and jills wedding and I close the program down, when I go back in it shows all the files including the rejects) this didnt happen on LR2

The slideshow is so heavily saturated it looks ridiculous and what the hell is with that thing where it builds something and you have to wait forever or cancel it, cant remember what it is as I have disabled it I think)

The music with the slideshow, you cant select playlists anymore, you have to chose "one" track and one track alone, when I spoke to the man at Adobe, he said, "yeah that's how it's meant to be" he then went to say "well you can now make the slideshow fit the track"
Holy crap, can you imagine sitting Jack n Jil down after they have been up that hill getting the water, it's bad enough that Jack has a splitting headache and dumb arse Jill tripped over like the dozy mare is, but to have to sit and look at their 600 wedding photos at 2.5 pictures per second in order to make it "fit to music" the poor bloke nearly had a heart attack.

Try flagging a picture with say a pick flag and a red flag, now go off and cmd E to edit in photoshop. do your thang, close it down, go back to LR. Hey presto, no picture selected. Where has it gone.... to make matters worse, now look at your filtered library, hey presto, where is the Tif version of the red flagged and picked picture. Nope the flagging doesn't get added to the Tif, great when you have a sub folder of flagged and picked pictures, having to go back and find each one in order to then flag it again is just a total cock up that should never happen.

Needless to say, I am not a happy LR3 user but am committed to it now and would really struggle to get all the new catalogues converted back to LR2.
Now I have no doubt the lovely eejits down at Adobe will sort the problems but there is no reason for most of these to be here, we waited long enough for it, Aperture came out in time for Focus so they have no excuse about rushing it through.
I have spoke with Adobe about the different issues but it's just a massive task trying to explain it to them and getting someone to understand and accept it. They want full case studies, exact examples, screen shots...
It's bad enough that my workflow has increased by around 10percent but to have to spend time trying to explain it all to them in the depth they want. Forget it.

Anyway, on a positive note, I love Lightroom as a concept and was so excited to move from my perfect copy of 2 to 3 so that's why I am so bitter.
There are no real benefits only massive problems.

Oh one more thing, the lens correction thingamajig looks nice on the screen and seems to work great until you export into PS4.... where is the adjustments... Adobe's reply, "it's not supported on CS4" pathetic.....

Have a good weekend.

Jase

www.jl-media.co.uk

JLMedia , Photographer  posted on 21/08/2010 00:14:10   Posted 89 times

Located:Chelmsford,Essex, UK
Member Since: 07/10/2008

cheers for the info. Its crazy that this seems to slug along compared to LR2 when there isn't much more going on. I'm enjoying the software in general but i'm just getting annoyed with the odd slow down when switching between 1:1 zoom etc.

In no way would i ever consider that this is because of windows or a PC system. In general the benchmarks are either identical or higher on a identical specced PC. Photoshop integration is instant and my machine flys through heavy workloads with no issue in everything else. It's just every so often with LR3.

Hmm it's most likely one of those gremlins which has no real answer. Mabye it doesn't like my CPU as it's overclocked quite intensively, or it doesn't like SLI graphics or some other pointless driver or microcode bull**** which will haunt computing forever.

I can manage and edit my shoots happily using the software, I was just a bit disheartened when I felt the differences between the Beta and the release versions.