FCP & Digital Film Tools - Composite Suite plug-ins

Hi, and thanks in advance to anyone that answers to this thread. I am looking for any kind of feedback from users of FCP & Digital Film Tools - Composite suite of plug-ins. My company is looking into the purchase of the suite and we are interested in anyone's past or current experiences using the poroduct.
Thanks again,
Michael
G5 dual 1.8 Mac OS X (10.3.9)

DFT Ozone is pretty interesting to an old darkroom guy like me. It allows one to make adjustments based on tonal zones- think Zone System.
DFT Light throws different light sources into a scene like window, door etc or you can customize it. Pretty cool, but I don't know how much I'd use it.
I couldn't really get my head around DFT Power Stroke in the few minutes I spent. It's less intuitive than the other 2 DFT filters.
The Tiffen filters are more like Cokin filters, but the Grain simulator is interesting on monochromes. In color, it just looks like noise to me.
I checked out all 4 in demo mode, and I didn't read anything. I just played, and only gave about 5 minutes to each plug-in.
DLS

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Well I hate the argue but that's factually untrue as well. No FCPX users are not forced to upgrade to Lion. Snow Leopard users can buy FCPX today, long before Lion is introduced.
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