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The only Sony zoom lens that I have is the G 24-105mm f/4 and it is nice and sharp. Until I got it a bit over a year ago, I was only using primes, many non-Sonys manually, the Nikons and Zuiko (Olympus) with an adapter. The 24-105 is a great focal length for travel, though it does make for a heavier mirrorless setup. It's a full frame lens so it gives me a pretty wide through portrait/medium telephoto setup - and with my files being so large, even a pseudo telephoto if I want to crop into a photo. I got a B+W closeup lens to put on the end of it to make for a pseudo macro lens too as I'm unlikely to take my 90mm macro lens traveling and again, since macro isn't usually a big need when traveling, being able to get a little closer is enough. I mistyped above - it's the G, not the G Master which is f/2.8 and costs about $800 more.

Can someone tell me what '60% of net' shown as the Alamy commission on the Account Balance tab means? I've had a couple of these lately. The balance calculated from these is less than I would expect. How is the running balance calculated in these cases?

Sony lists their product as "Lenses". Allan🤔

Ah no wonder I could not find what I thought was a zoom lens. I agree with you that Sony zoom lenses are not the best. I have a "good" Sony 18-135mm f3.5-5.6 zoom lens which I use for a lot of the work I put up on Alamy. Also I now have an E4/PZ 10-20 G lens which gives a better quality image than the previous 10-18 lens I had. I do not use the power zoom feature in favour of using the manual zoom. Each lens is on its' own 6500 body. Allan

Don't mention it Sung. You are in a for a big surprise going from LR6 to the current version. There have been massive changes since V6, all positive in my opinion: huge improvements in masking and Denoise to name a couple. I use Photoshop much less than I used to do because LR has advanced so much. You should also find it runs much faster for importing, generating previews and converting raw images on your new Mac.

Just a reminder that the sun does shine occasionally, although not much in these parts of late. Taken during a heatwave in Venice. Low $$.

Indeed most of the lenses that I use are fixed focal length, so we go from a 12 mm Rokinon, via a Sony 20mm, to a Pentax 28mm then a Pentax 35mm, followed by an Olympus 50mm, then a Pentax 75-150, and finally a Sigma 100-300 f4 - which I rarely use, too heavy. All, except the 20 are used manual focus with the a6500. Only the Rokinon and Sony are native Sony fit, the remainder are used with adapters. I find that the aged full frame fixed focal length film camera lenses provide better results than any Sony zoom that I have tried. Wouldn't do for a live news or action photographer, but suits me just fine.

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She sold again. Clearly I should take more goat pictures. High $$, TV, worldwide, within body of show.

This wasn't in my Firefox passwords. I may need to clear cookies.

Thank you Paulette, my memory these days is not that great either. ☹️ Great info & tips, MDM. Thanks

Seems the only way to get a comment from Alamy is to say something provocative and read the explanation of why the thread has been shut down. I'm considering it. As explained, Alamy seems to be dipping into the accounts of contributors to pay its business expenses- contributors who have followed its guidelines.

You can have two copies of the Adobe Photography package installed and activated. You sign in to Creative Cloud which manages everything. If you try to install on a third machine it will simply ask you to sign out of one of the machines it is already on.

Yes Classic is the correct version. Don't download Lightroom by mistake. Just copy the exixisting folder over on to your new machine. Lightroom will do all the upgrading and will leave a copy of the older version on your drive. It is extremely simple. I have never stored presets with the catalog but that should work fine. if there is anything that doesn't transfer, it is easy to do a manual transfer. The info is on the Adobe website. Yes of course you can use your existing G-Tech drive although it might be slower than using the internal drive or an external SSD - try it and see what happens. My internal drive is too small (1 TB) to keep my main catalog (massive because I keep the previews on it) so I have the catalog on a fast external SSD. I keep my images on a G-Tech TB external drive (although USB-C is just about as fast in practice I think). I sometimes transfer files I am working on to the internal SSD or an external SSD but the main difference is in the time it takes to generate previews.

I did all this a couple of years ago but my memory is not great so I'll just answer what I'm sure of. Yes, to Lightroom Classic. I was backing up my catalog to the external hard drive that also has my images. I used my last backup when the new Lightroom Classic asked (I think) for the catalog. I wish I could remember exactly how it went but I didn't find it difficult. Yes you can have Lightroom Classic on two computers. Someone more knowledgable will chime in, I'm sure. As you can tell, I am not an expert and I had no problems. Paulette

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I do suggest putting most important words in both the caption and as supertags. It can help the placement of your image. I congratulate you on getting those darn cats to hold still! I would use different words than you have in many cases. I don't know what you mean by "satup". I'd say simple and common expressions such as lying down or sitting, side view or front view. It looks like you have group tagged some images so kittens is in tag but not in image. Check that each image has very accurate tags that don't contradict each other. Good luck. Paulette

Lenses....plural. I dunnno! 😉

In a few weeks' time, I will try to carry out the following two tasks. To upgrade from my old iMac to a new Mac Studio. To migrate from LR6 to LR Classic (hope this is the right version) Is it just a matter of downloading and installing LR Classic on the new Mac, and open the old LR6 catalogue? Are there any conversion steps to follow? Or does LR Classic convert the old catalogue into a new format by itself? I feel a bit nervous about it in case I make mistakes. Can you also install LR Classic on a Macbook, too, so that I can work with LR while I am away (through import/export catalogue)? Currently, my LR6 catalogue file (*.lrcat), Priviews.lrdata, Lightroom Backups, my photos (majority in DNG format) and all my documents, etc are in a G-Tech external hard drive. So does this mean that I can just connect it to a new machine and start to use it as usual? Or do I still need to copy and paste presets, templates, etc in relevant folders in the new machine? I noticed today, in Lightroom6 Preference, Presets tab, ‘Store presets with this catalog’ is ticked. What happens if I untick this now? I would appreciate it very much if you could share your experiences. Thanks Sung