Last Days of Lightroom 6.14 For Me?

[NorthernFocus]

...You can transfer the Adobe setup to another machine I believe, but that may well be ‘instead’ and not ‘as well as’ You can always check that bit with Adobe to be sure...

I can verify that LRC can reside on at least two machines because that's how I'm operating. Never tried running them both at the same time while on-line but they each work. I only log onto the web with my primary editing machine when necessary to install new software licenses or updates that can't be downloaded and installed off-line.

Well, my solution is now determined. I'm keeping the current iMac as it is, but will move it to my wife's "office". I will be taking over the iMac I bought my parents about three years ago, as Mom isn't ever going to be able to use it again, and my brother, who is their property caretaker, isn't really usng it much either. Legacy software, other than that photo related, will remain on our old iMac and I'll spend a week or so after I get the new one downloading and installing the specific software I want, including LrC, the Topaz plugins and the newest Mac OS. After learning a bit on our current iMac, it should be fairly easy to accomplish.

Sounds like you've found a fairly painless path forward. I think once you're past the technical hurdles you'll be pleased with the upgrade to LRC. It is a bumpless transfer with the option of using excellent new features if/when you so desire.

 

[flyguy]

My current copy of Lightroom will not open Nikon NEF files that post date any of their DSLRs after the release of the D7100. That frustrated me when I made the jump from the D7100 to the D850 and eventually a D780 as well. Then Nikon released NX Studio and now I am able to view and edit NEF files from all my Nikon DSLRs. I have to presume that Z9 users will be able to do the same with their NEF files eventually with NX Studio??? Because I am a minimalist at heart and only post process as needed, NX Studio works for me. There are photographers, then there are those who manipulate digital image files to the point that they are not even close to what the original shot was. Whatever floats your boat as the saying goes. The sky replacement option, how about being there when the sky, the lighting, is what you want/prefer? When I see certain eye popping images I do wonder how much editing was done on the original shot and I am not talking about cropping. This is the way I have been wired since I started with photography and film over 40 years ago. I remember taking my D70s to a zoo back when that zoo still had a couple of elephants; there was a post in the way of my composition and the person with a digital camera next to me made the following comment, "I'll just photoshop the post out of the image." I waited ten minutes and the elephant moved; I got the shot and no post in the way. One of my all time favorite quotes about photography is..."If Photoshop is the answer, you are asking the wrong question." You can replace the sky in images, but can you alter the subtleties of the shadows and lighting on the rest of the image to compensate for your sky replacement?

 

[bleirer]

Camera raw files are proprietary. There is no standard and the files vary from camera model to camera model, so all nefs are not the same. How can any software maker anticipate the future nef files from future cameras? Adobe usually adds new cameras within a month or so of release, but you have to update the Adobe software. For those that don't want to update they offer the free dng converter that allows files from new cameras to be used with old Lightroom and Photoshop.

I've been trying to get my old Sony Walkman to download new music files, but no luck so far.