About a month ago we took the kids to the Marymoor Velodrome to see some track bike action. It was a fun night to spread out the blanket, setup the folding chairs and have a picnic while crazy people on brake-less bikes wizz by us on a goofy racetrack.

Here are some images from the racing that night...

As to the Lightroom 2 world, I’m hearing a few rumblings about Lightroom 2 having some issues. Here is my take, given my expereince:

1. It seems to me that importing takes more time than it used to. Nothing scientific, but its bugging me.
2. Day to day catalog use seems about the same.
3. I’ve seen more crashing using Lightroom - sometimes it just goes down and reports “Hey, I crashed”. I always write XMP to the file, so I’m never losing anything, but its still a pain.
4. I experienced no catalog upgrade issues.
5. I’ve seen a few small bugs either stick around from 1.x (Command-Delete sometimes says there are no files to delete when there are) or new ones (Edit in Photoshop never shows a dialog for me). I’ve noted that some third party web galleries don’t work right or are having drawing issues in the right hand track.
6. Some say that turning the Local Corrections on/off takes way to long. Have not really seen this.

Overall, Lightroom 2.0 performs about as well as 1.4 on my machine (which admittedly is a fast one with lots of ram). I’m looking forward to some bug fixes and I realize that the angst this stuff is causing people is a pain, so stick in there. My advice is to make sure you have a good machine, treat it well and be conscientious about your work and you’ll be happy.

Here are a few tips on boosting Lightroom performance.

Got any LR bugs? Put a comment and I’ll forward it to the team.

Also, here is a great link to some new Lightroom 2.0 tutorials on the Photoshop Cafe (via the Imaging Buffet).

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