Stapler

http://www.bibblelabs.com/

I have tried adobe lightroom and it's nice, but I can't bring myself to pay the 200 bucks for it when it is released. Also It is noticeably slow in it's current pre release form on my 2gig of ram overclocked pentium d machine. The third thing I hold against it (and most of it's competitors) is that I am spending allot more time in Linux than in Windows as of late. With that in mind DCraw is the next option, but I just don't think it does a good job in conversion or work flow.

Bibble labs is nice enough to support .deb and .rpm as well as windows and mac universal. Not only that but the pro license would allow me to install it on whichever I fancy at the time, 130 dollars still makes me cringe though. I have been using the trial for a couple days and it seems quite quick (though I had to tell it I had 2 processors), and the results I get are fairly good as far as I can tell. The user interface is lacking in comparison to Lightroom or even RawShooter. It fits in just fine in XP with the win2000 theme I use, but it looks out of place In the Xgl/Beryl world of linux.

I have searched a bit on "photography-on-the-net" but It seems to be a love hate kind of thing.
Anybody have input on it before I commit to a purchase?

Billiam

I'm going to apologize in advance for sounding like an ass, but you need to get over your hangup about paying money for photography software. These days software is just as much a tool in any photographic kit as a piece of hardware. Hardly anyone bats an eyelash at the price of a new flash or lens. It's just accepted as a cost of doing business in this hobby. If you stick with photography, you're going to end up cutting yourself short in the long run if you don't feel the same about software.

Now if you simply can't afford it, that's a whole other issue. But you come across sounding as if you have an overall aversion toward paying anything more than a $100 for code.

Stapler

No ass overtones read. next time I create a question I'll try to leave out the parts that point to my cheapassness. The truth is this will probably be the first peice of photography software I purchase, till now I've been using copies of things I stole before I stopped my internet copyright infringement spree years back.

I have already set about 150 bucks aside and semi come to terms with the departed Benjamin's. With my photography budget this it is either this or a battery grip for the next couple months.

So I probably should have kept it simple and just asked. What do you think of Bibble Pro as opposed to others?