Here is an excerpt from Gary Friedman's book on the Sony RX10M4. It says a lot about the quality of prints from the camera.

There's wisdom in that.

So I take it, you think that it was perfectly OK for Sen. Cory Booker to say that supporters of Judge Kavanaugh are "complicit in evil," you would defend his saying that. I would not. I find it despicable, to use your term. The judge does not deserve it.

But you reject civility. At least that is out in the open.

I know people who will not associate with those with different views because they have demonized those others. They are the real "fools." It has not always been thus, but I fear that it may never change in my lifetime.

Please understand that it doesn't bother me when subjected to personal attacks. I see it as a statement about the attacker, not me. That person has a weak case and cannot propose a counterargument. Which perfectly describes your comments here, all personal attacks, no substance. But I have confidence in you: that you can do better, that you can actually develop a coherent argument without ad hominem.

Thought police? Liberal dribble? Cupcake? Safe room? How did you miss snowflake?

No one is controlling your thoughts as long as they are civil. Are you suggesting civility is passe? Hope not.
What is your problem with critiquing the ideas presented but NOT the person?

From your response here, you have no idea of the distinction I was making. Nothing I said has anything to do with not owning your opinions, does it? Just the opposite: virtual everything I said was that criticizing someone's IDEAS was perfectly OK. If I'm wrong, please show me how, but I don't think you can. My problem is when a person gives their opinion and someone responds by suggesting their opinion is of no value because of who they are, while ignoring the other person's ideas. Are you saying you are OK with that?

To be clear, I have NO problem with owning one's opinions. I do have a problem when a one cannot give one's opinions without a personal attack. I know that the current caustic climate often deems that OK, but I will not. Ever.

There is a huge difference between ad hominem and attacking a person's ARGUMENTS. The post I replied to did the former without addressing the OP's arguments in the slightest degree.
Some people do not understand this difference but it is huge.

Can you point out to me where I attacked the person rather than his (implied) argument? I reread it before posting to make sure I talked ONLY about the content of his post. Just to be clear, it is OK to criticize a person's post, not OK to criticize the person. Big difference.

Right, so let's deconstruct that.
What do "you know" when you see it? That the person has never run a biz.
Why is this worth mentioning in the UHH? He might be bald. Is that also worth mentioning? Of course, neither is, on its own.
But your post goes further: its clear implication is that the OP lacks the insight of a business owner, that his views are less valid.
Your post is clearly ad hominem. That is not OK.

I am told it does a great job - better than LR - on removing perspective distortion as buildings that seem to lean away from you. True?

Are you implying that biz people are somehow better or wiser or more ethical than the rest of us?

Look, it's not complicated. No one forces anyone to open a camera store. If they do so without realizing that they will be competing with internet sales, shame on them, but they should not complain about it.

Me? I buy from my local store (Bedford) when I want the salesman - and Jay is very knowledgable - to take me through the ropes on a new camera (You might have noticed that serious cameras are a bit more complicated than when I first got into photography in the 1950s!). I consider his time and info well worth the price differential. So what I would never do is use his expertise then go buy the camera online. THAT is IMO entirely unethical. But that was not the case with the OP.

But not faster than the RX-10 M4, I believe.

[quote=charles tabb]My wife & I just got back from a tour of Switzerland and Northern Italy. I took my new Sony RX-10 IV and loved it.
It's not an SLR but it for filled all of what I needed while traveling.
Look in to it. A friend of mine on the trip looked at my camera and he just E-Mailed me to say that he has bought one also.

I agree. You should certainly look at it. It is an amazing camera, a game-changer.

This site tells it all: https://www.organizepictures.com/2016/01/move-away-from-photos

You will be much happier with LR on the Mac and your photos on the external drive. LR will run faster this way. But you really need a second or even third external drive for your backups if the photos are important to you. You cannot rely on a single HD not to crash. I have three backups because I don't like the feeling of relying on only one drive for my photos if my primary drive fails (which it has). I also worry about other unforeseen issues, like ransomware that could infect more than one drive before I realize it. (I know some people are like Leo Durocher when asked by a reporter - when his team was ahead near the end of the season - whether he thought they would win the pennant "barring the unforeseen." He replied, "There ain't gonna be no unforeseen.")

It's easy to think an penguins and whales and seals and such and think only about tele. But the scenery is equally amazing so you want wide angle as well. Two lenses should cover it...or one if you have the lens. You do not want to be changing lenses willy-nilly.

Ctrl-D deselects all photos so it's pretty benign. I believe the only way to erase all photos from your hard drive is to select them all, then hit DELETE, then click on the option to REMOVE FROM HARD DRIVE. That is, you REALLY have to want to get rid of them to do so. I think you must have done more than ctrl-D but it is highly unlikely you deleted them from your drive. Many have thought they destroyed their photo files in LR, few have done so.

So go to where you stored your photos on your HD...they will be there I'm sure.
If you somehow deleted from the catalog, the photos will still be there, but you will have lost your edits...there is no undo in this case. You would need to re-import them.

(At this point if you haven't already backed-up your photos and catalog file, you no doubt realize you need to. So I won't go there.)

Oh my! Such a set!! Even a couple of kingfishers, so hard! And more bald eagles than you can shake a salmon at.