To me the metadata search is one of the things I value a lot--with or without keywords because you can filter by camera, lens (except Pannies LOL)dates, etc., etc.--Robert's way works great. I think Jono, you won't have to go too deep--just work with it and it will become pretty intuitive. Its not like PS where you never ever never get to know it all. Its actually not hard to know all of it with LR--whether you USE it all is another thing (I don't use 2 of the modules--the web and slideshow), but one of the things I like is that it is possible for them to add more modules--and other 'stuff'--and that I can do so much just in the Develop module.