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I believe the most efficient way is to have a single catalog with all your photos. Professionals might find topical catalogs to be effective but I'm not professional. Organizing my photos by year ...

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I don't believe one catalog would be a limitation. And although LrC doesn't care where your image files are located as long as the path remains constant, there is value in having a good folder ...

Speaking of automatic responses: Why can't exposure be set to ETTR instead of just 18% grey?

Having followed this discussion occasionally, I find myself puzzled by your post. How is the dng file of higher quality than the original raw? Are you saying that starting the editing with DxO ...

Particularly these days, if you can duplicate all your eggs you'll come out ahead.

I don't see any advantage. It is true that different software has different results from raw conversion but if it's a problem, LR allows you to use other software for specific images that need the ...

LR doesn't care if you split your drives but I don't believe it is necessary. If you are current in your backup program, a dead drive is not a real problem. You buy a new drive, copy your photos ...

Place LR on the C: drive. Place your catalog on the external drive you're keeping your photos on. Presumably you're on a Windows machine. Get acquainted with Disk Manager if you're not already. If ...

If all you are doing is processing raw files there are many programs that can do that, starting with the software from the manufacturer of your camera. If you need the DAM, my opinion is that Adobe ...

OK, if you have the E drive internal to your computer it should be easy. (I'm assuming your new drive is external but if you're installing another drive in your computer the following will still ...

I have occasionally used http://www.fsoft.it/ERawP/

IMHO, a SSD is not needed for data. SSDs are for speed and the data are read from the disk once, then worked on without reference to the disk. At the end of the process something is written back ...

Yes. I did it. HOWEVER, you can load the software on 2 computers so you don't have to turn it off on the PC. I think you can only run 1 at a time but you don't have to disable it on the PC to run ...

I found the colors get strange on the D4 and D5 if the ISO gets over 50,000. They are recoverable up to about 100,000 but it takes a lot of work. Never wanted to spend enough time above that ISO ...

I got a D5 back in 2016 and it's my go-to for high ISO. I have a D4 which I think has slightly better color so it's used for everything else, but I have no hesitation in using the D5 for basically ...

I'm a fan of Adobe software. The Photography plan has both Lightroom and Photoshop available as a subscription for $10/month. For that you get all updates as they come out. Photoshop is what you ...

I don't agree. I believe psd is better. If I send a raw file from Lightroom to a Topaz plugin, it sends a tif. If I send a raw file from Lightroom to Photoshop, it appears to me that it sends the ...

I side with the Lilliputians on this one. YMMV.

Sounds to me as if you can ignore the existence of tif files. I believe jpg is probably the smallest file size you can use today. The jpg was created in 1992 , just about 30 years ago so it's ...