bridge + iview media pro vs lightroom

right now I'm using lightroom 1.3 for all of my post-processing (along with a bit of CS3 when necessary) tasks. I was thinking about switching over to bridge and iview media pro 3 because the DAM capabilities of IVMP seem so much greater than those of lightroom. is there anything I will be missing out on using IVMP/Bridge rather than lightroom? any recommendations to stay with what I have or switch?

thanks

I'm migrating away from iView/EM to LR. Although iV/EM is more robust right now, mainly with moving and managing files, I grew very frustrated with it's very slow and buggy pace of upgrades (it's had almost no new features in a couple of years, whereas LR has gone through a couple of betas and a couple dot releases) and I have alot more confidence in LR growing and outpacing it in that regard anyway. Also, with LR I can *mostly* do everything in one program rather than two. If you are looking for something more robust, I would look in the direction of IDimager or iMatch before I would recommend jumping in with iView -- both seem far better supported and more robust, and are also less expensive. I'd have gone that way too but I'm on a Mac and those programs won't run on Mac...

WHOOPS: just saw that you're on Mac too. But, I wonder if it would be crazy to run IDimager or iMatch through Parallels or something...

Anyway, for alot of in depth discussion on this topic, check out thedambook.com

Frank

For me, Lightroom does so much, over 90% of my processing and output needs, I see no need to use three different programs to do what LR does. I'ts got room for improvement, of course, but in just a year it's become quite accomplished in what it does, and I'm happy to grow with it rather than hop back and forth for just a little this or that.

I go through Bridge if I want to automate something Lightroom can't do, such as set up an HDR project or Pano project.