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Smugmug / Flickr is still going to savage the content of carefully curated groups by tossing out all images older than the most recent 1000 posted by its free (read, screwed) users.

Speaking as a...

> I'm still trying to figure out the benefits of "ANY" mirrorless camera over a mirrored one ?

Oh, that's easy. It's considerably cheaper to build, and these designs will wear out your batteries...

The battery life issue alone is enough to get me to say "no." 370 hours vs. 1200 hours. That's aside from EVFs ruining one's night vision at night, and being washed out in sunlight.

But...

Wrote my own image editor for OSX. Adobe can't mess with me any more...

http://ourtimelines.com/itdoc/intro.html

...problem solved.

Interesting. I just tried that under Sierra with a brand new .app executable I'd never had on my system; it didn't ask for my password, it just asked if I was sure I wanted to install it. I know ...

I didn't misunderstand, although Apple may have changed how simple installs work. But this applies either way; do not provide your password unless you are dead certain of what you are doing. Don't ...

I am deeply suspicious of anything that requires a password. There are a (very) few cases where it is legit - installing system components, etc. - but usually, it just means the developer(s) ...

"Smooth" is not always the point. Another reason some of us use these lenses is because they gather a lot of light; for instance, in an astro role, any "smoothness" is a problem, as are coma and ...

During the day, an EVF is unable to compete with normal outside light levels unless I'm huddled in the shade. That doesn't work for me. At night, an EVF will rob me of my night vision. As it takes ...

Very interesting, thank you.

I do use SqLite. I store sidecar (and other) info in JSON files, each instance documented in full so anyone who wants to process them or scrape them can easily do so. You might be interested in this ...

GPS data is currently  read-able, write-able, copy-able, paste-able (as text or cross-image), and set-able as part of the main editor operations toolkit. I'm adding export-able (as JSON ) soon, ...

For anyone who runs into this thread down the line, with Andy's help, I've definitely confirmed that this problem is at least somewhat unique to Andy's system; numerous users are running with the ...

Before you try that, make SURE that time machine has been working properly. There have been many instances of time machine not backing up properly. In fact, I have a machine here (a Sierra-based ...

If you are median or average stacking, high ISO can be quite useful. Or if you are looking for something in very low light. Or if you really need a high shutter speed. Or if your lens doesn't have...

TO the author:

Turning up the ISO and getting more noise from the camera's gain stages is like turning up your stereo and getting more hiss from the audio gain stages. Not hum from the power...

Good plan. Good luck!

iToolBox implements layering; this allows stacks of images to be used to generate a composite output (among many other cool things.) At this point, I have median and average stacking (I'm an ...

Good example, thank you.

Thank you for the details.