I'm just too old

When I started taking photographs with a digital camera, just like 99% of serious photographers I bought into the Adobe way of doing things.  So, Lightroom for processing my raw files and Photoshop for some further light edits was pretty well my workflow.

And it still is today.

But when I switched to Fujifilm at the start of the year, I read everywhere that I should be using a programme called Capture One to do my editing in, as it is far better at reading the Fujifilm “files”.

By the way, I hate it when photographers now call their images files. “Oooh these (insert camera manufacture here) files look lovely” they say.  They’re photographs.  Pictures. Images.  Not bloody files, OKAY.  Sorry – rant over.

Anyway, I resisted until just recently when I finally gave in and downloaded a trial version of Capture One.  And it was then it hit me.  Hard.  I’m just too old and set in my ways to learn anything new.  Especially something as complex as a whole new way of processing my Fujifilm files. Sorry, photographs.

It’s not that I didn’t like the user interface, the way it catalogued images, the look of the final results or that I’m just too dumb to understand how it works.  It’s just that I simply could not get to grips with it.  At all.  Because it was different.

a lovely old file from the 19th century

Which is now all rather disconcerting.  I mean, what if one day I have to learn something new just to exist? Shall I just lock the door and refuse to give in to progress?  Shall I demonstrate?  

Or just yearn for the old days?