How many times have you been somewhere or doing something and had the sudden thought "Damn, I wish I had my camera" without ever thinking about that device in your shirt pocket. I did that for years. OK it's not a Nikon D 5 with a 180-400mm NIKKOR f/4E TC1.4 FL ED VR Lens but within the limitations of its design it's everything you need. I use my Galaxy S-7 to capture things I would never get otherwise. Changing cloud formations and my SLR is locked in the trunk of my car 200 yards away, a butterfly that just happens to stop by while I'm pulling weeds, other daily events you just didn't have a camera for. In reasonable sized enlargements I don't think anyone can tell if I was using my cell phone or my SLR. The only limitation I see in a cell phone camera is that it is not as versatile as an SLR. Don't feel like cheating, feel like you are using the best available camera to capture an image you will never another opportunity for.

I am a 92 year old neophyte photographer who recently developed an interest. About 3 months ago I bought a Sony RX10IV and am really enjoying trying to figure out all those modes and menus—- I think my learning curve has flatlined.

I am going to submit (if all goes well) a couple of shots I took last month of my saguaro during its brief blooming period. They are both jpegs right out of the camera except for cropping. The first is just a snapshot to show the cactus in bloom. The blossom in the second is from farther back standing on the ground in order to see into the face of the flower sticking out from the end of the arm. Both were hand held—-sun directly overhead. I am pretty sure I took both shots in auto mode (I was only a beginner then LOL).
The flower shot was taken from about 15 ft. 600mm then severely cropped. I was amazed at how sharp that funny red eyed fly looked when I could not even see it while standing on the ground.

An aside: I have since seen posts of that identical fly on flowers from as far away as Louisiana and even New Zealand. His little wings must be tired,and if I traveled that much my eyes would be red too!

Just finished setting up my new computer from purchased used parts.
Asus motherboard,
AMD 8 core processor
16gb ddr3 Ram
1tb SSd for programs
2tb HDD for storage
Can't remember the exact graphics card, but it was on the list of supported graphics cards. I just remember GTX "something" 4gb graphic card.
Win10 pro. (legal copy, verified when I set it up)

Anyway, I went to the Adobe site and got rid of the old computer from my profile, so I can put it on the new box. I keep getting errors when trying to download the CC program. I looked at the adobe boards, and see that some people have the same issue, but so far, no real answers. I did find a link to download the programs individually, but I liked the old way of having the app tell me when there are upgrades available. Well, when I tried to download photoshop, it said approximate download time 6 days 16 hours and so many minutes. That's just for the photoshop part!

So, seeing that my wireless "could possibly" be the issue, I hooked directly into my modem, and still get the same result. All other programs load and run fine. I can stream Netflix, so speed shouldn't be that big of an issue. I have 100 mbs internet speed, (when tested, it's not really 100mb download speed, but still.... 6 and a half days!?!?

So, does anyone have any ideas that I haven't thought of?

Thanks
Bob