Note: some of the features discussed on this page are more-easily handled via my Metadata-Viewer Preset Builder plugin.

As I discussed in a previous post, Adobe's new photo-workflow application, Lightroom, has the sometimes-unpolished feature set one might expect in a "1.0" product. The main core functionality is great, more than I think one could expect from a "1.0" product, but it lacks a lot of user-customization abilities that you know will be added eventually, once the "to do" list of must-have features gets down to terrestrial levels.

(Note: the technique discussed on this page does not work with [...]

As I noted in my previous post, three weeks after having been officially announced, Adobe has released Lightroom Version 1.0 (a free 30-day trial can be downloaded from Adobe's Lightroom page).

Especially considering it's only a "Version 1" product, Lightroom offers a lot of things that can be customized. The subject of this post is the list of image metadata shown by the Metadata Panel in Library mode.

The metadata panel can show much more for an image than anyone's likely to want to see at one time -- over 100 items, such as its filename, the [...]

During the three-month ordeal of autofocus problems with my Nikkor 70-200 f/2.8 zoom, between suspecting a problem and finally having it fixed by Nikon, I learned a lot about SLR autofocus -- how it works, and how best to test it.

There are plenty of autofocus test charts available on the web, but all of them were severely deficient in one way or another, so I ended up making my own. Its development progressed over time as I tried different approaches, discarding what didn't work and refining what did. (The chart I used in November shows elements of [...]