Fear the man who carries one gun. Meaning he is likely highly proficient with it.

Chg_Canon gave you the correct answer. The capabilities of LR are so vast that most photogs only need that. I use PS for a very few things such as straightening skewed pics and some fill corrections. But the masking capabilities and the vast data base features of LR make for a very robust and complete program. Add to that the mapping capabilities, the book publication abilities like Blurb, included on-line portfolio web feature! Also add the mobile capabilities and integration with the desktop version and the program is powerful. Master LR and you will be a feared gunfighter.

Like you I jumped into PS and LR and quickly learned LR would be mostly enough.

Julie Ann Kost, whom I THINK works for Adobe, has exceptional on line short courses that deal with the entire universe of LR. Look her blog up and that will be all you ever need.

Also before jumping into LR be very thoughtful on how you set up your file structure and naming protocols. Maybe Julie has a video on that. I goofed that up early and am going back to unravel that mess over time.

The one gun analogy is so applicable in so many photographic ways. Guys who have 20 bodies and 100 lenses, use fifteen different editing programs are probably not proficient with anything. I know my mental hard drive is full so I only have a few go-to things I can (IMO) adeptly use.

I say all my this because you just joined UHH. Maybe you are way advanced so this isn’t on point. But if it is helpful please accept this in the spirit it was offered.

Is the purpose of this an exercise or are you intending to use the photo? Are you interested in feedback on the photo, even if it is fixed?

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You beat me to it. That is a disqualifier.

Somewhere in this thread I did recommend disabling the button that may be causing this. And I do recall once getting kinda nuts when my Oly was doing it. I’d bring the camera up to shoot and the focus point would move all over the place. Turned out it was my nose on the touch screen. Prob solved. But the Oly does have a software menu driven solution. Nikon needs to get this fixed. I’d not have a camera that does this.

I went on a few Nikon and general photography forums and see that this is a vexing problem on that camera. And I did not see any resolute answers. There may not be an answer. I think at this point, I'd bite the bullet and pay for the so called tech help.

One thing that keeps me going during these times is to go back and re-edit some shots using newer tech in LR. I have resurrected some shots that otherwise were not displayable. Another thing is to use the time to review your file structure, delete really bad photos (curate) etc.

I dont shoot Nikon, but can you disable that small toggle all together so it does not activate? Maybe a z62 owner might be able to jump in on this.

If this were me, I'd be unhappy as well...I want that focus point right in the middle.

Being kind is, of course, something we all should strive for. But also pointing out obvious issues, fallacies in logic or obvious problems in an attempt to help is also kindness with a bit of courage. In fact, I would argue that mere passive kindness actually morally wrong. Active kindness...meaning to try to earnestly try to help people is morally correct. In this case, the OP posted something about having to pay Nikon for advice, yet this forum is perfect for asking advice. It was an obvious omission.

When I was in a relatively high leadership position in my organization, I told my subordinate managers to not treat their underlings like children. I told them to treat them like THEIR children...firm, fair, supporting, teach them, and the worst of all things is to ignore an obvious issue. In this case, the OP may have well (if he is coach-able) slap his palm on his forehead and say, "of course!" and ask the question here.

If I were to have been the OP on this and had a simple brain malfunction and didn't ask the question, I would hope someone would prompt me to ask the question.

Sadly, on this post, people went off the rails quite quickly on unrelated matters. I agree, that is not only unkindness, it is a lack of judgement. OP has a problem. We work on the problem, provide the answer and move on. Simple.

Hey, Burk. You made me think of something. I just got back from a Italy but was with another couple so I really couldn’t go peel off too much to go photographing’. But one thing that is way cool in Europe are all the kids playing soccer. Might be fun to shoot. We saw field after field of kids playing.

Also in Italy, at a certain time of year, they have village vs village horse races which are supposed to be insane. For that I’d take a super zoom and all the gear I could carry.

Not to get too deep into the gear thing but IMO for travel nothing beats the size v capability v adaptability of M43 gear.

Just a thought

Dear CJ, I took a quick look at a few of your photos that you posted. It seems you like a more abstract photo where sharpness is not an issue. In fact, you appear to avoid sharpness in some shots..to great effect, I might add. But for other instances or types of art, sharpness is absolutely a necessity. Birds in flight was an excellent example....generally. Certainly, the photo you showed of the D Day invasion needed sharpness!

Anytime anyone says something absolute, it is usually wrong. Professionals and advanced amateurs should live in the grey zone...knowing when to do one thing or the other. When absolute sharpness is needed and when it is a liability.

Case in point: I was having a professional portrait taken of me a few years ago. The pro used some old Canon 50D and an older lens. I asked why the old camera and lens when newer gear was available. He said, "not everyone needs nor should they have a very sharp portrait photo. For you, we're not worried about sharpness" I guess this old geezer needed a more fuzzy pic! Now, if he could only do something about the grey hair.

People have already given you tips on dealing with the cold. I can add you need to deal with high glare from snow. So get a polarizing filter for each lens

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Exactly...its like the guy who keeps all his newspapers, thinking he may someday want to refer to an article. Of course, he is unorganized, can't remember, and can't find anything. Having too much is as bad,if not worse, has having too little. The other thing is that curation is a skill and it requires the user to really think about which shot is best. That is why people who run museums are not called collectors, they are called curators. Curation is a skill. Collecting, generally, is not.

Which leads me to the notion of printing. I do photo books of our major trips and events. The (adult) kids can at least see those and have them, if they want, after we're gone. I think my digitial pics will simply get trashed. Maybe I'll ask for my hard drive and me to be cremated at the same time and our ashes spread together. Problem solved.

Greetings! 4TB? My computer has 500 gig hard drive and I have a half used 1TB SSD card attached to it....that's it. I back up my catalog to dropbox and keep a copy of my photos on a separate portable ssd drive and I use carbonate to back all that up as well.

While I am sure I do not take the number (and quality!) of photos you take, it is my recommendation that you create a viable file organization protocol for ALL photos THEN use the x and p feature of LR to select the photos you want to keep and those you want to (meaning NEED TO) delete forever. And learn to curate, curate, curate your photos. For instance, how many photos do you have left from your Africa trip? 2 or 3000? If so, that is about 2500 too much. Believe me when I say that only 500, if that, are keepers. Have 50 pics of an elephant in the grass? I guarantee only, maybe, 5 are keepers. Trash the rest.

Get rid of unnecessary files such as when you edit, a tif file is created and then edit again and a second or third tif file is created. The first tif needs to get trashed! Export an edited raw file into a very small jpeg for posting or emailing? Trash it. I am even further starting to curate my pics..artistic photos that I may edit again in the future or I want to work on extensively in LR or Topaz, I keep the raw file. But a snap shot of my wife at dinner on vacation and we have the photo in a book? I keep the jpeg file and am getting rid of the raw files. I will never touch the raw file again, even if I had it in my hard drive. And I assure you my heirs do not want raw files nor do they now what to do with them. (This is all good in theory...I too am a work in progress!)

There are a videos avail on setting up a file structure. I suggest you find one that you like. Write it down, kind of like a mission statement, and adhere to it. LR is a very robust database that allows the user to sort and filter photos in nearly infinite ways. Learn to use and rely on that feature as well.

Good luck.