Call Adobe. Their help group is usually very good.

JeffL, I have friends who are professional photographers who I have met on several Lindblad National Geographic trips and several serious amateur friends in my photography club in South Carolina. Many of these people have moved to mirrorless cameras. So they were good photographers to start with and they recently switched to good mirrorless. (I still use Nikon 800 and 850 with lots of glass, so I have not followed them. But I will say I saw an immediate and substantial improvement in their pictures after their change. They are getting spectacular sharpness and color rendition that makes me jealous and they all say it is the rendition of the scene in the viewfinder that is behind this--once they learned how to adjust based on what was shown in the viewfinder before taking the picture.

I'd guess each of its should try it and we would love it.

I travel lots with Lindblad-National Geographic on shipboard excursions to wonderful places. My 10th trip-p with them was a 2 week trip in the Baja and I was with several photographers who had become friends over the years. Every one of them had recently switched to Olympus mirrorless, mainly from Canon DSLR equipment, and they all loved it--even though they were still learning. (Of course I wish I could get their pricing.) I just took my 11th trip a couple of months age to Patagonia and learned that a couple of them at least had gotten the OM-1 and thought it was by far the best camera they had ever used--PERIOD. I'm still using my Nikon 850 and love it, also have an older Sony A7 II which I don't like because of the confusing menu set up. But I think the switch to Olympus is in my future.

CHG_Canon, I am a bit confused by your comment as I travel with Lindblad National Geographic frequently (finally able to tart up again late in February to Patagonia-my 11th route with them) and we always have one to several National Geo photographers as our photography team. Most of them switched to Olympus with the smaller sensor a few years ago (spurred on by great pricing from Olympus for the long haul) and they love their new gear. To me the pictures look spectacular. I suspect they would not do this if their results would suffer.

I have used Phototronics in the north suburb of Winnetka for 25 years. 996 Green Bay Rd, Winnetka, IL. Bought several cameras and lens there and gotten good help when I needed something hard to get or advice. See Scott Dalhmeyer or Keith Franson. 847-446-7510.

Frankly it is hard to beat B & H.

Why don't you select a blank remote drive and transfer all your back up photos to it. Or you could transfer them to a cloud based option, like Amazon, Apple, Dropbox, etc. Frankly I think a poll would show that most of us have a back up strategy with at least two devices-one on a remote drive and one on an iCloud location. Some keep the original download and some simply update that drive as they edit and delete the original camera download. All definitely have backups (two or more) for our edited prints, regardless of what we did with the originals. And most of us don't store photos on the computer hard drive because it will use too much of that capacity as you accumulate picture files.

Also remember that there is a difference between the pictures themselves and the Lightroom instructions that store all your edits to your photos. You need to back these up also as they are separate from the actual photos, and you can store the originals for these on your computer hard drive if you want as they don't use anywhere as much computer capacity. Back up strategy is critical for Lightroom and there are plenty of great videos available (U-Tube, Adobe, etc). Worth reviewing these and developing your own strategy from which you never vary! You can have a real mess otherwise.

I have been to Africa a couple of times for 2-3 weeks. I agree with the no tripod comments and the bean bag. But I strongly suggest some type of remote handheld trigger for fast, repetitive shooting as you want to minimize hand on camera while in those vehicles. A tethered trigger is fine. And yes protect from dust-a nightly cleaning of your gear is important. I used the 200-500 Nikkor lens on my last trip with the D850 and found myself using that combo for a large majority of shooting--especially for birds (which you seldom hear people talk about) and neat close ups of animals you are close to. My second body was the D800, normally with the 24-70 lens. Very satisfied with my choices.

Have fun and be careful of closeness to the residents in this COVID world. Get the third shot if you have time--you can get it now at most Walgreens simply by saying you have compromising conditions.

As the retired President of the Skil Power Tool Company, I am disturbed by your reference to Skilsaws throwing dust into the eyes of a left hander. First, anyone using a tool like that MUST wear googles for safety! So sawdust thrown into the eye should not be a problem unless you are throwing sawdust in a strange direction. Secondly, "Skil" is spelled with one "l." Third, I don't know if you are referring to all hand held portable circular saws or a specific design like the famous, seldom copied, and very popular Skil Worm Drive Saw used frequently by roofers and others in the building trades, but I thank you for the name recognition.

By the way, I am left-handed and learned years ago that I had to adjust to a right handed world. For photography--and I am old enough so that my earlier cameras were all manual, I found it easy to use my right hand for the camera trigger and, maybe, focus ring and my other hand to do most of the other adjustments. Also I learned early to use a remote, corded, trigger which allowed me to use either hand to fire the camera. I thought it was an advantage to be left hand dominate.

I find it interesting that with all the hype around Luminar recently (it is very popular in a wonderful photography club I belong to) it was only mentioned once, and just in passing, in this long dialogue.

Secondly I would say that burkphoto has the most comprehensive and relevant answer to the original question and the personal source of software for a new entrant into the field of organizing and developing photos. I agree 100% with his comments.

I travel lots with Lindblad-National Geographic, often on 2-3 week trips to wonderful spots for birds, animals and landscapes. I have a D500, but my workhorse is the D850. For what it is work I've traveled for years with aseveral of the Nat Geo photographers and last March 4 out of 5 of them had dropped their Canons for various mirrorless cameras. Of course they got great pricing like 70% discounts, but they all loved the mirrorless due to weight reduction and the lenses they got with them. I'm not changing yet, but probably will as the next generation mirrorless comes out. I do have a Sony ARii which takes wonderful pictures but everything is different in shooting technique except manual focusing so I find it difficult to have both systems on the same trip. So until/unless the mirrorless becomes more like shooting with a DSLR I'm probably too old to change. By the way several friends of mine in my photography club dropped their Nikons for Fuji mirrorless because they don't have the cumbersome electronics that others have.

I would say first that he already has a pretty good camera. I would recommend that he has plenty to get very good with cameras if he really takes to it. At that time he will know a lot more about his options: mirrorless, full frame DSLR, whatever else is coming down the road. Admittedly I am not a 7500 user (shoot with a D850 and a D800). Also, any lenses he uses with the 500 will work with the 7500. He may want to look at some lens upgrades rather than a camera change.

After reading this very interesting test comparison I have one strong recommendation. If you were to switch to a copper roof, you could get rid of your roof nails completely. It worked well for me.

Thanks to everyone above for wonderful learnings about editing. The Ugly Hedgehog at its best. and Linda I loved your two photos earlier this week of the cows in the morning mist. Beautiful. But I wonder: how long will you be "....from Maine" Its"s been almost 20 years--isn't it time to be "...from Yakima"?

I hear lots of good things about Catalina and LR recently, however there is another issue with Catalina which worries me--it no longer supports Aperture. So eight years of Aperture files which open on Mojave cause me to stay with the older software until I get around to transferring them LR. Has anyone found an easy way to preserve Aperture without the transfer?

I suspect Best Buy will try to fill in where local competition goes away and will do pretty good with cameras, lenses and other basics. But they will never replace a good full service, local camera store. We have the largest independent appliance and electronic store in the country in the northern suburbs of Chicago, ABT, and I have watched them really develop a wide assortment of photography gear and expertise--but they can't hold a candle to B&H.

Bill D