In Japan?
Cheers,
Bernard
Everywhere I've worked including the Harakuju studios in Tokyo, I'd say lightroom is 3/4 of the photographers and image production, photoshop 100% for retouching, 100% for photographers.
Same with Paris, London, Spain, Italy, Hong Kong . . . (it's a long list).
There is some cross over to c-1 for certain cameras, but everyone I've met knows lightroom and photoshop.
In fact if you work with a retoucher, at the higher professional level, you'll find that 99% of the raw processing they do is in photoshop. Few have C-1, few use it if they do have it and fewer still upgrade their computers, software at every turn. It's expensive to move 20 seats up level at every change.
In the early stages of digital capture, expensive companies came out of the woodwork with very costly systems, running fiber optics, raid servers, dedicated IT guys. Most of those companies are gone or have pulled back and today it's a much different process.
Photographers can squeeze the last 15% out of an image with all the trick processing they know, but a retoucher is gonna put it in camera raw, or accept a tiff and go to work.
IMO
BC
