Has anyone had any experience with the Loupedeck Photo Editing Console? I received a review on it from an online reviewing page and am wondering if this would help an amateur/novice using Adobe LR? At the moment, I am simply eyeballing changes with PhotoScape (not Pro), Adobe PS, and Luminar 2018. I have LR on my machine but am not sure what its real purpose is. I am afraid to use it because I don't want to end up with multiple copies of the same photo all over the place when I am basically scanning and adjusting photos from as far back as 1974. I use bits and pieces of the three programs I listed. I am 71, not computer illiterate but pressed for time. I save everything as JPEG. Thank You!

Feel free to add to this GRIPE, if you feel the same way I do.

I started taking photographs 57 years ago with a Zeiss Ikon rangefinder 35 mm film camera.

I developed my own film and printed black and white photos for around 15 years, having moved to a few better cameras in the process.

1st upgrade was a Honeywell Pentax SLR with 35 mm, 55 mm and 135 mm lenses.

Later to a Nikon FM2 with 28 mm, 55 mm, 135 mm, and 200 mm.

Using every conceivable type of film possible.

I did portraiture, weddings, anniversary parties, Nature, you name it I just about photographed it.

This was all a hobby for me, I was only a professionally employed photographer for about 2 months, long story (won't go into that).

My GRIPE is what the camera companies did and did not do, and there missed opportunities when they developed DSLR cameras.

Now I would like to say, my camera bag had many varieties of film always ready for any occasion.

And when I would compose and shoot the image, I stopped using a light meter many years ago, as I was as accurate as my Lunapro would say for a certain scene.

Retired, I was given a DSLR 35 mm size Nikon for a Christmas present, with 2 lenses. It was a bundle.

So here are some GRIPES:

1: After so many years of shooting film, I knew which film to grab for what occasion, and what ASA would work the best for that situation. DSLR camera makers should have given the owners of these cameras, a set of film types, to choose from, and the camera would mimic the results of those types of film. So If I wanted to use a Fuj1 400, I could choose that in a menu, and the camera would act as if I had Fuji 400 in the camera.

2: I have a lot of very good camera equipment, that is now like the old toys in Toy Story, that FM2 is a wonderful camera, and Nikon should have made it possible for owners of their cameras, to send them in to be retrofitted with DSLR innards.

3: Feeling stupid, because the instruction are printed for someone that can read and follow instructions. I cannot, I am a visual learner, I learn by watching, and by doing. My camera has charts and graphs and histograms??????
I would just like to not feel so stupid, and be able to create those great pictures that I did with my film cameras.

4: Using this Nikon DSLR it almost like a chore, the ASA is off the wall, and I try to think what can this camera do for me, I know there are great possibilities, but 1/2 the time, I cannot find the right setting is in in Wrenches, or the Camera body?

5: I believe if a camera company, made the adjustments, that I have stated, being able to mimic film, by choosing the type of film in a menu, VPS, Tri-X, Kodacolor, Fuji 200, etc. I think that would go a long way to help older film camera users be able to accomplish getting the most out of their cameras.

Wishing you the best in this time of trial. Wishing the best for him too, as this life is not the end.

I also was Navy but I was lucky never having to see actual combat. I did see somethings here and there as a plane exploded after it went off the flight deck on the side of the ship. (It missed the landing cable, if I remember right.) I was right there but no metal hit me. That was the worst thing that ever happened to me during my time in the service. I realize that many people went through much, much worse. My brother was also a marine during the Vietnam war and he did see action.

Sorry if I have wasted your time telling you all, this, I just want to wish you the best in this time of trial.