Lightroom 2.0 .. good for A700 exfine JPGS?

[19john28]

I have been waiting for 2.0. Now I am wondering if it is good for just RAW shots or if it is just as good for JPGS?

[David Kilpatrick]

LR and ACR can do pretty good adjustments on JPEGs. Of course, you only get what you start with, they can't recover missing highlight or colour data, but yes - you can fine tune many JPEGs effectively in LR2.

By default, it will not show you JPEGs if they have the same file identity as a raw file, it will only show the raw. You have to enable viewing both if you shoot raw+JPEG and want for any reason to see the JPEGs.

David

[19john28]

Thank you David,

I have a PC running XP with all updates (SP3) and 1GB Memory. I hope this will serve to get me started with LR 2.0. I am not going to store lots of photos and I am not looking for speed. I just want to learn the basics before I get a new PC next year. Any thoughts you have regarding suitability would be very helpful.

Thanks again,

John Dodds