After talking to DJ the other day, I downloaded the ACDSee demo, and I'm pretty impressed! However, I'm curious to find out what iView Media Pro is like in comparison to ACDSee (besides the 125-150.00 difference in price). Have any of you all used both? Pros? Cons?

Thanks!

Nathan

This is a good one for Dana!

I think Iview has a pretty sweet slideshow program along with it but I'm not too familiar with it.

Dana...fill us in when you have minute...

iViewMediaPro is legit. It offers all the functionality you need (including reading RAW from Canon and Nikon ~ does ACDSee do that? ~ and a very functional slideshow program). I don't use ACDSee for anything so I'm probably the wrong person to ask about comparison, but if I didn't already have a system down, I'd probably at least demo both and see which I like better.

In addition to the slide show functionality, my favorite parts about iView is the ability to "label" with one key stroke for future sorting and the ability to catalog easily. As a Mac guy, I find it to be a powerful little tool and worth the price tag in my opinion.

Dana,
I know there was a fairly recent thread on this forum regarding this topic, but how would you compare iView with PhotoMechanic for time-sorting, slideshows, etc. Have you tried both? I'm a Mac user so ACDSee is not an option.
Chris

Uh oh! :-) Check this out!

ACDSee 7

PhotoMechanic is very fast for quick sorting and viewing (thumbnails load very quickly), but iView is just more powerful. The tagging and cataloging is the real value in post production. ACDSee looks good to me though as long as it recognizes your camera's raw files. The price is certainly right. The only trade-off is you need to buy a PC to use it. Is that right DJ?

that's correct...but everyone should have one of those anyway...

there's another post about some slideshow stuff ...

Slideshow stuff

Yes, a PC should be a requirement... ahem... excuse me *smile* Nah, Mac's can be great too so no wars there, but yeah, I happen to be one of those folks who still uses PC's. Often looking over the shoulder at my assistant as she's working with Photo Mechanic I constantly whine about how annoying that program appears to be... I am so biased by a few of the features of ACDSee on the PC. How quickly I can see thumbnails, launch them to full screen, fly through them image by image, deleting, selecting, viewing and instantly zooming and panning as I go.

At least as I've seen her use it there is no way to do some of those things in PM nearly as easily or quickly. Plus on that other slideshow topic, I simply select the images I want and run the slideshow out of it as well. I need to pick up their latest version of it and still have a few "wishes" for things I'd like to see them change/add.

Since PC owners indeed still have $0.02 in their pocket, I offered mine here *smile*

--Dan Dawson

A quick rejoinder to my thoughts on iView ... I probably overstated the usefulness of the slideshow option. It can work for me because it allows me to feature two images at a time on my 23'' Apple display. For a different set-up, like on a smaller monitor, that might not be an advantage. Further, I'm actually tempted to go back to the "screen saver" option on my mac for reception slideshows as it may be more efficient.

The big plus for iView (as I would suspect in ACDSee) is in post-production. After the thumbnails are built, it is very quick and offers some extreme efficiencies for processing and cataloging images.

Bottom line in my opinion is simply making a call and moving forward!

Canon or Nikon? Mac or PC? iView or ACDSee? Uncover a reasonable number of rocks to find out "enough" of what's what and then pick your system and don't look too far back. At least not for a little while.

There's always a way. And there's always a better way. Making a first way is what's key.

So, hurry up and buy that Canon set-up with a Mac and iView ... what are you waiting for???

So Dana.....

2% or skim?
87 octane or 89?
Erasable pencil or permanent pen?
2 door or 4 door?


WHAT TO DO?!?!?

jk.

Well said.

LOL... :-) ...that's right! They are both great so I agree about just picking one...


"The path to perfection leads to procrastination."

Chris,
1%
91 octane
Sharpy
5 door



PS ... amen on that quote dj ... do something and do it well or end up with nothing.

you always gotta be difficult don't you Dana.

I bet you caused your mother a lot of grief growing up.

Correction...

Dana's post should read...

1%
water
crayon
0 door

xoxo,
DJ

Vespa's don't have doors huh?

Regarding my mother, I'm still asking for her forgiveness ...

> Vespa's don't have doors huh?

Oh, but some of them do! The lovely Vespa 400!

LOL...That'll be Dana's next purchase!

How sophomore of me. Thanks for the appropriate admonition.

Here's the latest from ACDSee ...

http://www.dpreview.com/news/0412/04120903...ild61update.asp

You're the man...if only you had a real computer you could use this program!

:-)

Just kidding - your G5 is pretty sick!!!

Glad I could help you PC folks get up to speed.

PS ... I found the update on my mac;-)

Have you all noticed a problem with the color of your RAW files not being represented correctly in ACDSee? I thought the basic layout of the program was great, but the RAW images were discolored (Nikon RAW files of course ).

Nathan

Hey Nathan! Good chatting with you yesterday!

You're right...the thumbnails pulled from the RAW files usually are a bit tweeked - not sure why? Don't worry...it's true with us Canon jokers as well and it's even that way in the thumbnail menu of DPP...The full size jpgs should look good though...