Foto Jo wrote:
I have LR Classic 6.14 which as you ALL know we paid good $$ for. The same with Silver FX Pro and all the other Nik programs we have purchased over the years. So I have refused to pay monthly for LR Cloud, even if it is only $10.00, even if it will hold my pics in “the cloud”. I have my external drives (several) for backup.
That being said, the same thing happened to me when I bought the Nikon Z6. LR will not read raw images from the new camera. It will read jpegs, but that isn’t an option for me.
I have to convert to DNG’s then load to LR. It is not easy as it sounds either. I feel this is Capitalism at it’s best. I refuse to participate.
So to piggyback on your question~ Does anyone have a solution for this issue? Or will Adobe keep taking millions $$ (Ching-Ching)from photographers every month so they can edit raw files from their new cameras direct from LR cloud.
Thank you for listening to my rambling. But even the on line adobe people overseas that helped me with this issue agree with me.
Respectfully asking for help,
Jo
I have LR Classic 6.14 which as you ALL know we pa... (
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You have a fundamental misunderstanding of what you get for your $10/mo. You have three choices.
Choice #1 is Lightroom CC is $10/mo, which gives you LR CC (not Classic) which is cloud-based, and intended for portability - runs on a laptop with Win10 or MacOSX v10.11 or later. You get 1 TB cloud storage.
Choice #2 is the Photography Plan @$10/mo, which includes LR Classic (this is most like what you are running), Photoshop, Photoshop in iPad, Lightroom CC, and you get a "starter" 20 GB cloud storage.
Choice #3 is the 1TB Photography Planm for $20/mo, which is exactly like the 20 GB plan but you get an extra 980GB cloud storage.
Points of confusion:
1. You do not have to use the cloud to run the software.
2. The updates and upgrades are in the cloud, but the downloading and installation is entirely run by you, at your convenience.
3. The primary rationale behind the cloud is for file sharing, usually photographer to client. It is NOT intended as archival storage, backup or anything else. A local, external hard drive is considerably less expensive. and more easily managed.
4. It seems your strategy of continuing to use outdated and unsupported software isn't working very well for you. You paid for and own NOTHING other than a license to use it. Without regular updates and support there is no value to what you own at this point.
5. Software development and support costs money. You have only two real choices here - continue to use your outdated, orphaned software, cursing at capitalism, corporate greed etc. Or just pay the $10/mo and end your reason to complain. That is the solution you seek.
FWIW, I have been using LR and PS CC ever since they dropped the subscription price to $10/mo and have never experienced the trials and tribulations you are writing about. It just works. And I have never used Adobe's cloud for file storage/sharing. I use Dropbox.
FYI - I hope you haven't deleted your raw files after copying them to dng.