Adobe Lightroom Rocks; Adobe Lightroom Sucks
re: Sony pixel shift
A lot of photographers use Adobe Lightroom. It’s a strong offering, great for some if not most purposes. But that’s like saying an iPhone is a great camera—it is*, but you are not going to shoot sports with it or so many other things.
I do not use Adobe Lightroom because (a) it does nothing for me except create useless work for me, and (b) Lightroom lacks all the critical tools I need.
As just one of many examples, consider that when using Sony pixel shift, the Sony motion correction feature gets 99% of the motion issues, but in windy conditions there may be small areas that need painting-over with one of the single-shot frames. How do you do that in Lightroom? You cannot; you need layered images in Photoshop. Ditto for a dozen other things I need to do regularly that are in Photoshop, but not Lightroom.
Cats for rats — Tigger.
* Though its hyper-overprocessed JPEG/HEIC image quality is complete garbage at the pixel level, trash grade that I would be embarrassed to present. When I must, I shoot raw on iPhone and accept the shitty quality with JPEG/HEIC for snapshots.
