Problem with Lightroom 3

I've just recieved my copy of Lightroom 3 and straight away found a problem.
The Noise Reduction and Sharpening is that much better than previous versions I'm going to have to go back and re-process the last 2 years of Raw images.
I'm also wondering how many of the borderline keepers that I've deleted in the last 2 years would have been kept.
SERIOUSLY if you haven't upgraded yet, just do it!

Lightroom 3 is far better at NR than any previous version, but I don't think you need to rework your old images.

If you applied Luminance NR in your older images for instance,I think you can choose to have them re-processed automatically.

Oh, and never delete anything. You never know when a piece of software will come along to fix the duffers that go in the bin.

Excellent advice.

Thanks for the advice Steve in regard to LR3. I tried the beta version and it was good. have just been given a birthday pressy to allow me to purchase the upgrade from v1!
Andy

Make sure you install v 3.2 - v 3.0 has serious speed issues which have been fixed in 3.2

Even nice ones of your thumb!

And there is me trying to force myself to delete more due to the silly amounts of disk space my images now occupy. And I only "went digital" in 2007...

More on topic, Lightroom 3 is excellent. K.

Thanks for the advice
Andy

Yup LR3.2 is much better than 3.0

and ... Never delete anything! Can't be said enough.

Never delete anything!
Never delete anything!
Never delete anything!

If you must clear HDD Space, burn them to DVD first, and make two copies for safety.

I have bought a 2nd DVD burner so I can burn the two discs at once. Saves a lot of time!.

Actually burn them to DVD even if you don't need to clear them off your drives.

I once had a computer that had a PSU that went tits up and took out both the motherboard AND the 3 drives.

external hard drives cost peanuts (relatively) and are intuitive to use (and you don't get the quirks that DVD's suffer from such as unfinalised indexes. And bigger, of course...4gb doesn't go far now...). Perfect for backups as well, just make sure you store them somewhere else (preferably a different building...)

Lightroom even has the "Export Catalog(ue)" option which makes it a doddle to backup your entire collection to/from an external harddrive / network.

I've got two 2TB HDDs now, I clone my pics oneach and burn to DVD. To be honest, when these drives are full I will probably simply buy more drives. Although I'll still burn to disc. habits!!

Anyway when 50 and 100Gb discs become cost effective ...

Huge +1 for this post. If you have your own permanent office/desk in work, then a simple way of doing offsite storage is to have two external hard drives for backup and make sure that one is in the office. Update the one at home and bring it in to work and bring the work one home for a fresh backup. Repeat at regular intervals or after any particularly important shoot. Otherwise, what happens if you have fire or flood damage in the room you keep your computer?

FWIW, I use the multiple-drive-approach. Big thumbs up for Scooter Software's Beyond Compare
Makes sync-ing drives a piece of cake!

Matt