Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2016/06/11
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Much more important to me than transform is the huge increase in speed, way faster in loading and working images. from my iPad Sonny Carter > On Jun 11, 2016, at 9:25 PM, Herbert Kanner <kanner at acm.org> wrote: > > Thanks everyone for the good wishes. > > > Nathan: I sure agree with you about LR. As I said before, I upgraded from > LR5 to LR6, which took quite a lot of effort because Adobe very cleverly > concealed the way to do it. Then, I had a problem with format in the print > module, kind of lost my temper, and downgraded to my LR5 copy because I > just didn?t see any advantage in the stand-alone version of LR6. It seemed > to me that from at least LR5 on, in ?lens corrections? there was a > spectacularly effective mechanism for correcting verticals. In fact, I > posted on the gallery an extreme example of corrected and unprotected > shots of a tall building. So, I?m curious about the ?transform? that a few > people are talking about now. > > Herb > > Herbert Kanner > kanner at acm.org > > Question Authority and the authorities will question you. > >> On Jun 9, 2016, at 11:02 PM, Nathan Wajsman <photo at frozenlight.eu> >> wrote: >> >> Sorry to hear about the ordeal, but glad to hear that you are >> recovering?and happy birthday! >> >> I have no intention of subscribing to CC. I like my software the >> old-fashioned way, installed on my Mac. I have LR6 and if there is an LR7 >> I will take a look and decide. But no monthly subscription for me. >> >> Cheers, >> Nathan >> >> Nathan Wajsman >> Alicante, Spain >> http://www.frozenlight.eu <http://www.frozenlight.eu/> >> http:// <http://www.greatpix.eu/>www.greatpix.eu >> PICTURE OF THE WEEK: http://www.fotocycle.dk/paws >> <http://www.fotocycle.dk/paws>Blog: http://nathansmusings.wordpress.com/ >> <http://nathansmusings.wordpress.com/> >> Cycling: http://www.crazyguyonabike.com/belgiangator >> <http://www.crazyguyonabike.com/belgiangator> >> YNWA >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >>> On 10 Jun 2016, at 02:53, Herbert Kanner <kanner at acm.org> wrote: >>> >>> You can say that I?ve been on medical leave from LUG. >>> >>> First, an oncologist, on a routine visit, noticed an inflammation on my >>> left leg. To my amazement, an exam table being in the room, she and her >>> assistant got down on the floor and with fiber-points, drew a circle >>> around my leg a bit above my ankle, prescribed an anti-biotic, and told >>> me that if the redness got above that line, I should see my primary care >>> doc about intra-venous anti-biotic. >>> >>> My doctor being on vacation, I saw two other doctors in the next week. >>> Each one modified the oral anti-biotic. When my doctor returned, she >>> instantly sent me to the emergency room (ugh?the only quick way to get >>> into Stanford Hospital) and I got intra-venous anti-biotic over night. >>> By noon the next day, they decided it wasn?t an infection after all, but >>> states dermatitis, and discharged me with treatment info., >>> >>> I think that treatment triggered overt congestive heart failure. I just >>> am reluctant to believe in coincidences, and there4 was another >>> non-trivial event that makes me believe that. My hemoglobin the night I >>> entered the hospital for the anti-biotic was 12.8 and the day I left it >>> was 10.8! Anyway, the symptom the following week was such extreme >>> shortness of breath the walking from one room to another left me >>> panting. I did not have the brains to be frightened, because in the >>> course of the day, this gradually went away to the extent that by >>> afternoon I was happy to walk up and down my driveway picking >>> blue-berries from five bushes. Luckily, by the end of the week, I >>> realized I must be in serious trouble, phoned my doctor, and got >>> admitted to a cardiac unit at the hospital, where I spent a week before >>> they sent me home. I had required oxygen at the hospital and they >>> arranged for home installation, so shortly after I returned home, fifty >>> feet of hose attached to a magic machine the sucks in air and puts out >>> 92% oxygen was installed. All that hose so that I could walk to any >>> room. And some small oxygen tanks for when I had to leave the house for >>> a medical appointment. >>> >>> All a waste! In two days, using my own pulse-oximeter, I established >>> that I no longer needed oxygen?this agreed to by the visiting nurse. I?m >>> pretty sure that between one an two weeks from now, I?ll be functioning >>> normally and be out taking pictures with my M. >>> >>> I see tantalizing discussion of a new LR release. I was just too cheap >>> to subscribe to LR and just bought the LR6 upgrade. Then I got annoyed >>> with continued failure to format decently a 4x6 print with their print >>> module, and back-tracked to LR5?it seemed to me that the >>> non-subscription LR6 at the time had no significant feature for me >>> beyond those of LR5. I will now follow the discussion on the LUG of LR >>> features. If they sound like stuff I would want, I?ll subscribe. Hell, I >>> can afford it?I just have been offended by Adobe?s money grabbing >>> tactics. >>> >>> Herb >>> >>> P.S. I turned 94 today. >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> Herbert Kanner >>> kanner at acm.org >>> >>> Question Authority and the authorities will question you. >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Leica Users Group. >>> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information