I have bought some film stuff(Pentax M42 lenses) and found them to be good people to deal with.

Maybe he is sampling the Egg Nog.

[quote=rgrenaderphoto]Be ready for a multitude of opinions. And for purposes of discussion, it would be nice if the "I am not paying the userus $10/mo subscription" gang would just sit this one out.

Adobe Photoshop Lightroom is a purpose written application for Photography. It has a moderate-steep learning curve, but starting with Lightroom will prevent any bad habits from taking root in your workflow. But when you "get it," you'll wonder why you bothered with anything else. Lightroom's cataloging, organizing and adjustment capabilities are world class, the standard that all competitors strive to copy. Unless you want to get deeply into the creative aspect of photography, working with layers, filters, pixel peeping, then Lightroom is the place to start.

Do you want to move on to modifying photographs as art? Get deep into retouching? Then Adobe Photoshop is for you. It has an Everest scale learning curve, and after 5 years, I pick up new techniques all the time.

Scan the YouTubes, see if your local camera store or community college has classes.

And, Retirement and Photography go together like peas and carrots.[/quote


I prefer ham & beans.

So that means you have to be a wise*** yourself?

Is the camera new? iPhoto is no longer being upgraded. Not enough information here to diagnose.

Only one lens to worry about. That is better than carrying 3 lenses and trying to switch from one to the other. I would second the 28-300 & also would consider the 24-120 f4.

What about Apple Fritters?

I upgraded 2 iMac 27", one a Retina, and one a 2011, plus a MacBook Pro. The 2011 iMac wiped the hard drive when I updated. the other 2 did just fine. I did a D.O.D. erase and reloaded the 2011 and reloaded from a Time Machine backup and all is fine. I am not sure that I didn't make a mistake on the 2011 so all in all I can't say I had any problems.

What's cable?

Where will you be staying, and what will you be driving?

The case you have in the link is one that the camera has to come out of to use. The one the OP is talking about if I have not completely lost my memory was a hard case that used the tripod mount as the fastener to hold the case on the camera. This is one that I think he is talking about.

I think he missed this.

Have you tried using disk utility to repair the usb memory stick? If the MacBook Pro recognizes that there is a usb drive in the computer, disk utility should fix it.

I hope you already have the National Parks Pass(America the Beautiful) as it will get you into Arches, Canyonlands, Canyon de Chelly & all the National Monuments & Parks for free.

https://www.recreation.gov/marketing.do?goto=acm/faqs/America_the_Beautiful___The_National_Parks_and_Federal_Recreational_Lands_Pass_Series.htm

On my stomach, apples. Oranges give me heartburn. Of course I can never stop with eating just one orange either.