Lyon

[HansE]

Couple that were not converted from raw before.
Less seen views of one of France's major cities.

[Isac]

#1, lovely POV and nice and wide to give it scale. Lovely lines.
#2, all of the architecture speaks volumes for it's age. All built ages ago - more for practical purposes - rather than visual appeal. Lovely shot.
#3, show me that there is no rush here, very relaxed lifestyle indeed.

[Isac]

I have never used DNG files and don't understand why there is a need to do so - but that's just me. Thumbs for CR2 files are viewed in Windows Explorer, so I don't quite get why you need the DNG file for that. Faststone Image Viewer also views the raw files so it's easy to cull the files as you view them. Quick process.

[HansE]

#3 No rush lifestyle reminds me of the complete lack of restaurants's staff ability to run a restaurant in most restaurants we visited.

[Grumpy John]

Maybe the restaurant staff have all been to the Basil Fawlty School of Hotel Management

[Grumpy John]

Like Hans I convert my RAW (CR2) files to DNG during importing via Adobe Bridge with Photo Downloader. I don't remember exactly which PS tutorial I watched that recommended doing this, but I've always done it this way. I do all my viewing and culling from within Bridge and ACR. No need to jump from one viewer to a different one.
I have several different viewing/editing programs including DPP4, FastStone, IrfanView and PhotoScape, but I mainly use the Photoshop Suite for all my editing, viewing and cataloguing.

[Isac]

That video is 2011 vintage John! Things have changed since then and now they are saying there's no need to convert to DNG. It's probably like Holden/Ford or Canon/Nikon arguments. CS6 still needs to convert CR3 though. I'm not as advanced as you with the file handling thing so I just dump my files into a folder and cull them with Faststone. If I need to edit, they go straight in to PS with a hotkey directly from Faststone - job done.

[Grumpy John]

2011 is probably about the time I started using photoshop.

[Isac]

So you're a newbie then!

[HansE]

The CR3 files created a bit of a problem as photoshop wouldn't read them hence the conversion to DNG. I was reading somewhere that DPP does a better job with less noise. Will try and check that later.