“Original intent” is very much moot at this point.
No it's not. They charge more for every other singular app. You're just being salty and don't want to admit it.
And of course, you threw out all that old glass, recovering not a penny of its original cost /s
You'd be surprised how little you get for older Canon glass that doesn't work well on the latest high MP bodies. But you're still ignoring the fact that you don't own the software. It's illegal to sell it to someone else because you're in violation of the terms of the agreement, which is legally binding whether you think so or not.
So to clarify, if you entirely bought into the ecosystem and transformed all of your originals into .psd’s and/or uploaded into their cloud, Adobe has your data in lockdown...
To clarify, it would be pretty stupid to transform all RAW files into PSDs. RAW files will work with any editing suite, as long as the app has been updated to support the camera. I don't know any photographer who does this. Sometimes you finish photos in Photoshop, but if you're editing every photo in PS instead of LR then you're doing it wrong. I was also under the impression that you save flattened, finished PSDs out as 16-bit TIFFs. This is what they always had us do in college. Furthermore, Adobe even offers the DNG format, which is open source.
Oh, look: it’s a “No True Scotsman” logical fallacy.
Oh look, it's the "I took a debate class one time in high school" fallacy.
Oh, look: a personal attack, which is a TOS violation.
Sorry, no “/S” tag on this one. Or a smiley.
Report me. Do it now if you feel it's warranted. It takes quite a bit of insecurity to somehow think the words "some guy" means "-hh". You're not going to win that argument ever as nothing in what I said was aimed at you in any way.
Text retained for documentation purposes, in case you try to delete your Ad Hominem attack.
What is your deal, dude? Who hurt you?? This made me laugh. What a weird thing to write!
YMMV. Since software is tax-deductible in the year of purchase, it doesn’t really matter too much.
Text retained for documentation purposes because I wanted an excuse to use a big word to show other people on the internet how smart I am: Non sequitur. Straw man.
And “perks” like cloud storage just isn’t a big deal that’s really central to the craft. Particularly given how long it takes to transfer up to only 1TB when on the road.
Maybe get a better ISP? Some photographers have multiple sims for this reason. You can still dump to your iPad on the road and have it sync to your Mac when you're back at the hotel.
I don't even think you know how any of this works, which is weird because you seem so against it but don't seem to understand it. If you're wanting to have your work with you, you're not having to download 1TB every time you open Lightroom. You can choose to cache lower resolution proxies locally. It's called a Smart Preview. It only syncs the sidecar files over the cloud unless you are loading up a fresh device for the first time or having to upload new files from a shoot. You're not going to be uploading 1TB every time you travel. Usually this is done during ingest when you get back to your Mac and have a fistful of SD cards. Then the photos become available on all your other devices. I can dump to SSD, this triggers an automatic backup to archives, and the smart previews are sent up to the cloud. I can grab my iPad and head out the door and kick back in my hammock editing on my iPad Pro. It absolutely fantastic. I can get them 90-95% of the way there, which is good enough to share to web most of the time, and get them print-ready on the Mac doing test strips with a precisely calibrated monitor and environment in my studio.
Did I break you or something?
…tools do matter ... a lot. And while this may be new news for some people, Clifford Stoll actually warned of this as an IT issue over twenty years ago:
ISBN 0-330-34442-0. ... and the software rental business model actually makes this IT management issue worse, not better.
The hardware isn't anything without the software. The reverse is also true. They are both important. You're not making yourself look good when you say that things like Lightroom (and by proxy the old-school darkroom) don't matter.
Your comments aren't going to age well. You're here writing ISBN numbers for some 20 year old book on the internet and meanwhile the world is passing you by. I suggest you take a step back and think about things from a broader perspective.
The cloud isn't this evil thing. I have several college interns and they barely even use local storage. Everything is in the cloud. Everything. And it's super convenient and time saving. They never lose data, they never forget data, they can always search their data intelligently, and everything is available instantly. I remember that even when I was in college around the time Dropbox came out it saved me. We had to log in to a computer at school and copy our document off a flash drive into a "faculty drop box" on the local network. When I plugged my drive in something went wrong with it and it was unreadable. I had a copy in Dropbox and logged in, pulled it down, and was able to turn it in. Saved me as that project was like 20% of my grade and the professor was strict. It was way back then that I realized the value of cloud storage. Everything is moving to that. As I've gotten older I have learned an important lesson: The world moves on, whether I want it to or not. The sooner you realize that, the happier you will be. Or just stay mad forever. I don't care.
