Haha!

Welcome! I've been around not to long and getting good information to help me be better at what I do...

Update via Luminar to JPEG image. To me now more vibrant, but original JPEG more true to colors etc on this very bright morning...

I like this photo, just a JPEG as at time didn't use RAW. Very, very bright morning shot...

Haha! So true

Thank you very much!

Not sure if there is a definition for purest, I'm not one, though consider what you and your skills with camera can produce an image that needs or gets no modification on the computer being close to that.

Thanks all for the response! I realize photography is an art form especially to the person doing the work. I'll be using RAW more often hoping I can achieve more detail, so far not so good, but I'm determined. I'm still mostly a purist at heart so that makes it bit more difficult for me I guess.

I'm fairly new here. I've spent my photo career (50 years) shooting film then moving to digital in 2005. Shooting mostly landscapes, a few weddings and portaits. With digital I've stayed with Large Fine rarely touching up images, until recently doing that plus RAW.
What I decided is that most awesome images I'm seeing here must be shot RAW then processed via PS/LR or such. I've been to Yosemite, Monument Valley and my images though good (to me) aren't so crisp, detailed, and "bright" as recent published images here, mine being non RAW. I'd really love to see same images before artistic updates, to me many of these awesome images seem more Art, almost like a fine painting versus realistic actual image (I mean beyond calendar quality)

I went from 7D2 to 6D2 and very happy today. But I already had EF lenses, and selling my 7D2 was easy as still the "current" Canon model. Nothing wrong with 7D2 but after 2 years with it I wasn't really happy (personal opinion)....

Lense creep is common, Tamron 18-250; Sigma 18-200; Canon 70-300 IS all did creep for me. But as noted ALL have lense lock, only issue I had was if pointing down for a picture...

YouTube could have video you need, I watched a 90 minute on my latest camera (6D2) that was easy to understand showing usage of most features and settings, much I already knew but good to make clear again.

Nice!

Dang should know what you're buying to start with. When I bought my Canon 24-105 F4L II I knew it was going to be big and bit heavy.

Yes cell phones are just point and shoot. But having some artistic ability and being in the right place at the right time with can produce "some" amazing images...