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2024-04-13 Organizing Digital Camera Files for the Long Term

2024-02-21 Latest Adobe Lightroom Update Breaks NEFX File Handling — Zooms out to 50% in Develop Mode

2024-02-12 Photoshop and Lightroom with Nikon NEF Pixel Shift Files (Nikon Z8, Nikon Df): “Could not complete your request because Photoshop does not recognize this type of file.”

2024-02-05 ETTR: Overcome Noise with Optimal Exposure, plus Adobe AI Denoise in Photoshop/Lightroom 📹

2023-12-04 FastRawViewer: Saving me a Lot of Time Organizing My Shoots Into Subfolders + video 📹

2023-05-29 Reader Comment: Adobe Camera Raw Mandatory Lens Corrections for Distortion/Vignetting Depends Arbitrarily on Camera Model

2023-05-28 Nikon Continues to Make Misleading Claims about Optical Distortion In Its Lenses

2023-01-11 Adobe Lightroom Rocks; Adobe Lightroom Sucks

2022-12-18 Adobe DNG Converter: Possible Loss of Metadata, Guaranteed Loss of File Dates, but Space Savings for Uncompressed RAW

2022-12-12 Sony Imaging Edge Viewer: Assembles Pixel Shift into Incompatible ARQ — Why Not Industry-Standard DNG? (REVISED)

2022-03-11 Apple Mac Studio M1 Ultra Estimated Performance: Focus Stacking with Zerene Stacker, Adobe Lightroom, Photoshop

2021-10-26 Adobe Photoshop 2022 — Bye Bye to macOS Mojave Support

2021-03-18 Sony A1 Lossless-Compressed Raw Format: Update Photoshop and Lightroom and you’re 'good'

2020-12-30 Leica M10R White Balance and Tint in Adobe Camera Raw, SpyderCHECKR Card

2020-06-18 XMP Sidecar File Handling in Lightroom Non-Functional with DNG Files — inconsistent with Photoshop / Adobe Camera Raw Handling

2020-06-16 Hooray! Adobe Camera Raw Now Has Option to Always Use Sidecar XMP files with DNG

2020-01-11 Phase One Capture One 20: Serious Pain Points for Organizing Large Shoots (Updated with Reader Comments)

2020-01-09 Adobe Lightroom Users Rejoice—Your Ship Has Arrived with the 2019 Mac Pro!

2019-11-29 Phase One Capture One Pro vs Adobe Camera ERaw

2019-11-28 Need Advice/Help with Phase One Capture One Pro Sharpening Tools (UPDATE with reader comments)

2019-09-19 LibRaw Monochrome2DNG and PixelShift2DNG Are Indispensible for my Current Tasks

2019-09-14 LibRaw Updates PixelShift2DNG for Sony A7R IV, Supports 4-frame and 16-frame Pixel Shift Files

2019-04-11 Reader Question: eGPU for Photoshop and Lightroom?

2019-03-19 Adobe Camera Raw “Enhance Details” Feature: Most Important Raw Converter Feature in Years, My Suggestion to Adobe for UI Fix

2019-02-12 Adobe Camera Raw “Enhance Details” Feature: How it Works and How to Use It

2018-12-29 Adobe Lightroom: Basic Flaws Seem to Make it Unusable for My Needs

2018-12-26 Workflow Tip: Locking DNG Files to Prevent Modification by Lightroom/Photoshop, Greatly Reduces Backup Time

2018-12-20 Apple 2018 Mac mini: Substantial Performance Gain over the Fastest 2017 iMac 5K

2018-08-13 Sony A7R III: the Noise Behavior that Has Been Troublesome to Me — Updated, PhaseOne CaptureOne PRO (Repost)

2018-03-07 iMac Pro 18-core Rocks Delivers Unprecedented Performance Gains for Adobe Lightroom, Trouncing the 2017 iMac 5K

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2024-04-18 Keep It Simple! Don’t Trust Your Photo Library’s Organization to Cloud and Editing Apps

2024-03-13 The Ultimate Mac Buyers Guide, Part 3: How to Configure a Professional High End Mac

2023-12-27 2023 MacBook Pro M3 Max: Lightroom Import/Export

2023-12-20 2023 MacBook Pro M3 Max: Adobe Lightroom Import/Export

2023-07-21 Adobe Creative Cloud: Way too Many Daemon Processes equate to Crapware

2023-07-20 macOS Ventura 'upgrade' Destroys My User Account, Forces Recovery

2023-07-20 2021 MacBook Pro M1 Max Strangely Slow with Adobe Lightroom

2023-07-19 Slowdown/Performance Variation with 2021 MacBook Pro M1 Max... Ambient Temperature? Apparently not

2023-07-19 2023 Mac Pro M2 Ultra: Lightroom Import/Export

2023-05-02 2022 MacBook Pro M2 Max: Lightroom Import/Export

2023-02-17 TESTED, Apple 2022 MacBook Pro M2 Max: Adobe Lightroom Import/Export

2022-06-21 TESTED: Apple Mac Studio M1 Ultra: Adobe Lightroom Import/Export

2022-06-20 Adobe Lightroom Memory Usage: Excessive?

2022-06-19 2022 Mac Studio M1 Ultra: Recommended Models and Accessories

2022-06-19 2022 Mac Studio M1 Ultra: Lightroom Import/Export

GPS Units for DSLRs

GPS units for Nikon and Canon..

1. Geotagging in Adobe Lightroom 4

Nikon D800E vs D800

D800E supplement and comparisons with Nikon D800..

1. D800E — Moiré Removal With Lightroom 4 (Stonework)

Pentax K-1

36-megapixel full-frame DSLR with SuperRes Pixel Shift Mode..

1. Pentax K-1 Innovative Features

Workflow, Photoshop

Getting pro results in Photoshop..

1. Photoshop vs Lightroom — Which is Best for You? 📹
2. Photoshop: Localized Contrast Enhancement via Unsharp Mask 📹
3. Photoshop: Ad Hoc Introduction to Photoshop Layers 📹

Post Processing for Sharpness

Making image captures look sharp..

1. Photoshop: Localized Contrast Enhancement via Unsharp Mask 📹
2. Photoshop: Ad Hoc Introduction to Photoshop Layers 📹

Color Gamut and Color Space

Color space for digital images. .

1. Installing the DCI-P3 Color Space for Photoshop / Lightroom

Workflow Tips and technique

An introduction to digital workflow and best practices. .

1. ACR/Lightroom Camera Profile for Raw Conversion (Fujifilm X-T1)
2. ACR/Lightroom Camera Profile for Raw Conversion (Nikon D810)
3. Photoshop vs Lightroom — Which is Best for You? 📹

Photoshop How-To

Working with Photoshop for raw conversion and more. .

1. Photoshop: Localized Contrast Enhancement via Unsharp Mask 📹
2. Photoshop: Ad Hoc Introduction to Photoshop Layers 📹

Mechanics and Organization

Downloading, organizing, etc. .

1. Organizing Digital Camera Files for the Long Term

Medium Format Magazine

Articles written for MediumFormat.com..

1. Computer Storage for Photographers (August 2019)
2. Choosing a Computer for Advanced Photography (December 2019)

Hasselblad H4D 50 Megapixel Medium Format DSLR

How does Hasselblad’s 3rd generation medium format entry measure up?.

1. Software (Phocus)

Leica S2 37.5 Megapixel Medium Format DSLR

How does Leica’s medium format entry measure up in ergonomics, image quality, etc?.

1. Software Correction vs Other Brands

Ask Lloyd Chambers

Questions and answers on photography and computers and more..

1. Choosing a Windows PC for photographers.

Sony Alpha A7R

Full frame compact mirrorless with interchangeable lenses..

1. Automatic Correction for Lateral Chromatic Aberration in Adobe Camera Raw
2. Camera Profiles for Sony A7R / A7 in ACR / Lightroom

Olympus OM-D E-M1

A worthy upddate to the E-M5 with pro-grade build quality..

1. Camera Profiles for E-M1 in ACR / Lightroom

Fujifilm X (general)

General information about Fujfilm X..

1. Camera Profiles for Fujifilm X in ACR / Lightroom

Fujifilm X-Pro2

Fujifilm's 24MP APS-C offering..

1. Raw Conversion: XPro2 vs SilkyPix vs Adobe Camera Raw vs Iridient Developer (Oil Pump)

Blog posts, reverse chronological

2024

2024-04-13 Organizing Digital Camera Files for the Long Term

2024-02-21 Latest Adobe Lightroom Update Breaks NEFX File Handling — Zooms out to 50% in Develop Mode

2024-02-12 Photoshop and Lightroom with Nikon NEF Pixel Shift Files (Nikon Z8, Nikon Df): “Could not complete your request because Photoshop does not recognize this type of file.”

2024-02-05 ETTR: Overcome Noise with Optimal Exposure, plus Adobe AI Denoise in Photoshop/Lightroom 📹

2023

2023-12-04 FastRawViewer: Saving me a Lot of Time Organizing My Shoots Into Subfolders + video 📹

2023-05-29 Reader Comment: Adobe Camera Raw Mandatory Lens Corrections for Distortion/Vignetting Depends Arbitrarily on Camera Model

2023-05-28 Nikon Continues to Make Misleading Claims about Optical Distortion In Its Lenses

2023-01-11 Adobe Lightroom Rocks; Adobe Lightroom Sucks

2022

2022-12-18 Adobe DNG Converter: Possible Loss of Metadata, Guaranteed Loss of File Dates, but Space Savings for Uncompressed RAW

2022-12-12 Sony Imaging Edge Viewer: Assembles Pixel Shift into Incompatible ARQ — Why Not Industry-Standard DNG? (REVISED)

2022-03-11 Apple Mac Studio M1 Ultra Estimated Performance: Focus Stacking with Zerene Stacker, Adobe Lightroom, Photoshop

2021

2021-10-26 Adobe Photoshop 2022 — Bye Bye to macOS Mojave Support

2021-03-18 Sony A1 Lossless-Compressed Raw Format: Update Photoshop and Lightroom and you’re 'good'

2020

2020-12-30 Leica M10R White Balance and Tint in Adobe Camera Raw, SpyderCHECKR Card

2020-06-18 XMP Sidecar File Handling in Lightroom Non-Functional with DNG Files — inconsistent with Photoshop / Adobe Camera Raw Handling

2020-06-16 Hooray! Adobe Camera Raw Now Has Option to Always Use Sidecar XMP files with DNG

2020-01-11 Phase One Capture One 20: Serious Pain Points for Organizing Large Shoots (Updated with Reader Comments)

2020-01-09 Adobe Lightroom Users Rejoice—Your Ship Has Arrived with the 2019 Mac Pro!

2019

2019-11-29 Phase One Capture One Pro vs Adobe Camera ERaw

2019-11-28 Need Advice/Help with Phase One Capture One Pro Sharpening Tools (UPDATE with reader comments)

2019-09-19 LibRaw Monochrome2DNG and PixelShift2DNG Are Indispensible for my Current Tasks

2019-09-14 LibRaw Updates PixelShift2DNG for Sony A7R IV, Supports 4-frame and 16-frame Pixel Shift Files

2019-04-11 Reader Question: eGPU for Photoshop and Lightroom?

2019-03-19 Adobe Camera Raw “Enhance Details” Feature: Most Important Raw Converter Feature in Years, My Suggestion to Adobe for UI Fix

2019-02-12 Adobe Camera Raw “Enhance Details” Feature: How it Works and How to Use It

2018

2018-12-29 Adobe Lightroom: Basic Flaws Seem to Make it Unusable for My Needs

2018-12-26 Workflow Tip: Locking DNG Files to Prevent Modification by Lightroom/Photoshop, Greatly Reduces Backup Time

2018-12-20 Apple 2018 Mac mini: Substantial Performance Gain over the Fastest 2017 iMac 5K

2018-08-13 Sony A7R III: the Noise Behavior that Has Been Troublesome to Me — Updated, PhaseOne CaptureOne PRO (Repost)

2018-03-07 iMac Pro 18-core Rocks Delivers Unprecedented Performance Gains for Adobe Lightroom, Trouncing the 2017 iMac 5K

2018-01-23 LibRaw (RawDigger/FastRawViewer) Releases Beta of “SonyPixelShift2DNG”: Makes DNG file from 4 Pixel Shift Files FAST for Direct Use in ACR/Lightroom

2017

2017-12-28 Sony A7R III: the Noise Behavior that Has Been Troublesome to Me — Updated, PhaseOne CaptureOne PRO (UPDATED)

2017-12-20 iMac Pro Models for Photographers

2017-11-24 Reader Comments on my “Why I Probably Will Never Buy a Mac Pro Again” post: More CPU Cores and Dual GPUs vs Single GPU (and performance with PhaseONE CaptureOne Pro)

2017-07-14 TESTED: 2017 iMac 5K and 2017 MacBook Pro

2017-03-06 OWC Nearly Doubles PCIe SSD Performance with Accelsior Q — great choice for big Photoshop Files and/or Lightroom catalog space

2017-03-03 Fujifilm GFX 50s: 'RAF' Not Yet Usable with Adobe Camera Raw (Lightroom, Photoshop)

2017-02-04 Sigma sd Quattro-H: DNG Files Shrink by More than 50% After Adobe DNG Converter

2017-01-02 Reader Comments: Photo Software for Photographers

2016

2016-12-03 2016 MacBook Pro: Cannot Sustain Performance Under Load

2016-12-01 2016 MacBook Pro TESTED: Lightroom Import RAW Files

2016-12-01 Photoshop + Lightroom for a Year for $88

2016-09-20 Canon 5D Mark IV: Adobe Does Not Support Dual Pixel RAW

2016-07-03 Installing the DCI-P3 Color Profile for Use with Photoshop / Lightroom

2016-03-16 Fujifilm X-Pro2: Comparing 12 Camera Profiles in Adobe Camera Raw (for Photoshop or Lightroom)

2016-02-21 Pentax K1: Impressive Innovation Unmatched by CaNikon

2015

2015-12-24 OS X El Capitan (aka El Crapitan) Breaks Lightroom Tethered Shooting for Nikon Cameras?

2015-11-11 Photoshop/Lightroom Problem + Deals on Hard Drives and Memory + Testing 8TB Hard Drives

2015-06-15 Reader Question: Which Raw Converter?

2015-05-27 Sony: Which Lens Corrections are Baked Into the Raw ARW File?

2015-04-08 Adobe’s Plans for Photoshop and Lightroom for OS X

2014

2014-11-03 Yet Another OS X Yosemite Issue: Hard-Clipped Blacks in Lightroom (and Safari)

2014-08-29 Adobe Camera Raw: 'CameraStandard' Camera Profile Produces Horrific Tonal Transitions for D810 NEF

2014-05-26 How to Configure the 2013 Mac Pro

2014-04-24 Leica T System: Quick Comments

2014-04-21 Camera Profiles: Converting Raw in Adobe Photoshop ACR or Lightroom for Olympus OM-D E-M1

2014-04-20 Camera Profiles: Converting Raw in Adobe Photoshop ACR or Lightroom for Fujifilm X or Sony A7R/A7

2014-04-20 Camera Profiles: Converting Raw in Adobe Photoshop ACR or Lightroom

2014-01-18 How to Organize Images on Disk and for Lightroom, Aperture, etc

2014-01-18 2013 Mac Pro Tests: Lightroom, Photoshop, Aperture, and More

2013

2013-11-20 How to Correct Off-Center Color Shifts With Photoshop Layers (Sony A7R and Leica M?)

2013-10-05 Workflow: Organizing Your Files; Use Lightroom or Aperture or Keep it Simple? Or Both?

2013-07-13 Defrag or Upgrade to Faster/Larger? (Lightroom, Aperture, etc)

2013-06-10 B&H Photo 4% Rewards and Lightroom 5 Now Available

2013-04-06 The Ultra High Performance SSD Option for Photoshop or Lightroom

2013-01-10 Apple iMac for Photographers?

2012

2012-12-09 Fujifilm X-E1 (and X-Pro1) Artifacting Issue — Reader Comments

2012-07-27 GPS Units for Nikon and Canon DSLRs: Nikon GP-1 and Canon GP-E2

2012-06-22 MacBook Pro Retina — Growing Pains, but a Game-Changing Display for Photographers

2012-06-20 Understanding Photoshop and Lightroom Behavior with the MacBook Pro Retina Display

2012-05-25 How Long to Convert 500 Nikon D800 14-bit NEF to JPEG?

2012-05-17 Nikon D800E: Removing Color Moiré With Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 4

2012-05-11 Nikon D800E: RAW File Support Still Pending with Aperture, Lightroom 4

2012-05-07 The Ultimate Drive for Lightroom Catalogs

2012-04-16 Ultra-Fast Photoshop CS6 or Lightroom Catalog Drive with OWC’s Mercury Accelsior PCIe SSD

2012-03-21 480GB SSD for only $599 — GREAT for Lightroom Catalog, Travel Backup, etc

2011

2011-07-20 SanDisk Extreme Pro Card Failures

2011-06-18 Which Mac Pro for Photoshop CS5 and Lightroom 3.x?

2010

2010-04-22 RAW file processing on Apple MacBook Pro Core i7 with Lightroom, Aperture, CaptureONE Pro, DPP, NX2

2009

2009-12-28 Adobe Lightroom 3 beta performance — not good

2009-12-08 Apple’s new 3.33GHz Mac Pro — fastest Mac yet!

2009-08-29 Photoshop CS4 is faster on Snow Leopard

2009-07-15 Optimizing Adobe Lightroom

2009-05-11 What makes Adobe Lightroom slow?

2009-05-06 Optimizing Adobe Lightroom

2009-05-04 Adobe Lightroom or Apple Aperture?