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with Bridge, do I need Photo Mechanic?
Casey Templeton, Student/Intern
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Harrisonburg | VA | | Posted: 3:01 PM on 04.17.06 |
| ->> I am about to buy some software and need to know if Bridge can ingest disk? If it does, I feel I do not need Photo Mechanic. Thoughts? |
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David Harpe, Photographer
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Louisville | KY | USA | Posted: 3:05 PM on 04.17.06 |
->> Photo mechanic does what it does very well. Bridge tries to do a bunch of things, but it is slow and cumbersome.
If you plan on shooting in the field and doing fast-paced editing and transmitting, it's very hard to find a solution better than photo mechanic. If you are more studio-bound and/or are not frequently shooting on deadline, you could try bridge and then buy PM if you find yourself slowing down.
Dave |
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Delane B. Rouse, Photographer, Photo Editor
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Washington, DC & Seattle | WA | US | Posted: 3:19 PM on 04.17.06 |
->> As far as I can tell, Bidge can not "ingest". I too find it somewhat slow and cimbersome, but I also find it simple yet elegant. I like the way it displays images...for some reason they appear sharper in Bridge than in other programs.
I'm trying to come up with a major reason NOT to use Bridge, but I can't. PM has a demo, so you should try it and see if it meets your needs. |
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Chris Large, Photographer
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Okotoks | Alberta | Canada | Posted: 3:33 PM on 04.17.06 |
->> PM is far superior in everyway that I've seen. Bridge is so s l o w to load and display. PM allows way better options for tagging, renaming, contact sheets and very fast editing (selections)..You can open right from PM in to Photoshop and go back and forth effortlessly.
No direct injestion with bridge the way PM does but there are other ways to dump you CF card into your machine (just that PM does it better).
Chris |
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David Meyer, Photographer
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Orlando | FL | USA | Posted: 6:47 PM on 04.17.06 |
->> Casey and Delane,
There have been some scripts written that extend Bridge, allowing for the ingestion of images. Here are a couple that I came across:
http://basepath.com/ImageIngester/index.php
and
http://www.thedambook.com/pages/Import_from_Camera.zip
I believe both are rooted in Peter Krogh's workflow-oriented The DAM Book.
http://www.thedambook.com/index.html
I use Bridge myself. I'm still shooting with an original 1D. The last time I checked, Photo Mechanic could not display the 1D's RAW images - only the pint-sized preview. I believe the suggested work-around was to shoot JPG+RAW.
Nothing against PM. It is a fine application with a rabid following and is surely battle-tested. I simply do not want to manage twice as many files in order to shoot RAW. Not to mention the loss of CF card capacity incurred by doing so.
Hope this helps,
Dave |
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Darren Whitley, Photographer
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Maryville | MO | USA | Posted: 7:30 PM on 04.17.06 |
| ->> Bridge is pretty, but it's too slow. Buy PM. |
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Jack Kurtz, Photographer
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Phoenix | AZ | United States | Posted: 8:14 PM on 04.17.06 |
->> The easy answer is no. But PM is significantly faster and works seamlessly with Photoshop (and the Adobe Raw Converter). If you have a slow or RAM impaired Powerbook, it might be worth your time to try PM. You can download a free demo to testdrive it. And the tech support from PM (in the Rob Galbraith forums or via email) is outstanding.
jack |
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Ian L. Sitren, Photographer
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Palm Springs | CA | USA | Posted: 7:22 PM on 04.18.06 |
| ->> I just tried using Bridge exclusively to get 300 photos edited and uploaded. As soon as I saw how slow it handled that big of a project I shifted right over to PM. PM saved me a couple of hours that I just did not have. |
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