My main preference is Peak Design straps which come in three different models, Slide. Slide Lite, and Leash. They differ in width, thickness and features. The Slide is intended for heavy cameras and lenses and is the most comfortable of the three if you have a very heavy kit. The Slide Lite is the one most will choose. It is narrower then the slide but still very comfortable and will hold the weight of anything you might want to use with it, but it may be a bit less comfortable then the Slide for very heavy kits. The leash is very narrow and is also thinner but still very strong. It is best used with smaller DSLRs and Mirrorless cameras with smaller and lighter lenses mounted. They all use the well known Peak Design anchors at the attachment points. The neoprene Optech straps are also very comfortable and are well priced.

There is no tech support to call. Users must submit an online support request which can be found using the link below.

https://support.dxo.com/hc/en-us/requests/new

Actually, both DxO PhotoLab and DxO's version of the Nik Collection are very reliable and have tens of thousands of users.

I cannot say what issues the person you are replying to had and why they were not resolved, nor do we know which software he was using and which version, but I have been a DxO software beta tester for the last five years, and the majority of reported compatibility issues are not directly attributable to problems with DxO's software.

In your situation you seem confused about which DxO software and version you actually have a license for, and which software you actually tried to use as a plugin with Lightroom. DXO PhotoLab 7 Elite is a competitor of Lightroom and is not a Lightroom plugin. The Nik Collection 6 can be used as plugins with Lightroom classic. Until you can be a little clearer with a greater understanding of what you have it is difficult to help you.

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Linda,

It is still not clear to me whether cindo51's most current licenses for the Nik Collection and PhotoLab have both been activated and whether he is attempting to use PhotoLab as a plug-in.

That is correct. The Nik collection is a set of eight modules intended for use as plugins in other software. PhotoLab is more of a Lightroom competitor and is not intended as a plug-in for Lightroom. The Nik collection can also be run as plugins to PhotoLab.

Retro cameras are not made for everyone. But many of us love the ergonomics. I don't have the Nikon Z f yet, but I do have the very similar Nikon Z fc. It is the most enjoyable digital camera I have every used and I'm looking forward to getting my hands on the Z f. I primarily use manual focus prime lenses with my Z fc, especially Voigtlander lenses designed specifically for the Z mount with electronic contacts.

I believe that all the Nikon Z bodies are made in Thailand now, including the high end bodies like the Z9 and Z8.

I prefer to match my edits to my vision and expectations of the end results. As a result that may mean a few subtle edits or it may mean very extreme ones depending on my goals for the image. I don't limit myself. To get the best from your images during editing means understanding how to get the results you want from your software.

Most of the poorly done and/or severely overcooked images I've seen are from people that are either new to editing, don't have a handle on how to get the best from their software, or have not yet developed an eye to differentiate between well processed and poorly processed or overprocessed images.

Post-processing is not an arbitrary term. It has a real meaning. It differentiates the processing of captured data before an image file is created, and the modification of an image file with additional adjustments after it's been created.

Processing is applied in your camera to create an image. Any adjustments made in software on your computer after your image files have been created and downloaded is called post-processing, meaning additional processing applied after the initial creation of the image.

Some current digital cameras also have some additional processing functionality that can be applied in-camera after the creation of an image which is similar to using post-processing software and is also considered post-processing.

Yes, the word processing might also be accurate, but it would also confuse the issue since it would not be clear whether the processing referred to was applied while the original image was being created or as modifications to it after it was created.

Film may seem different since film is processed outside of the camera and modifications such as dodging and burning are made during the processing of film. However, if you scan film images or negatives, save them as Tiff files, and edit them in software, that would be post-processing.

This specific event was rehashed here beyond all reason almost a year ago.

Couldn't agree more. For some photography incredible sharpness wide open is not always advantageous.

These days I shoot mostly with fast manual focus prime lenses on my Nikon Z body including those from Voigtländer, TTArtisan, and others. My three Voigtländers, which are all f/1.2 lenses, are not clinically sharp wide open, but rather have what many refer to as a Voigtländer glow, which inparts a slightly soft and dreamy quality to images when used at f/1.2 to f/2.

For my photography I find their rendition much more useful then some clinically sharp as a scalpel fast autofocus primes available today. And for me the VLs also have an additional advantage of being very small and lightweight for very fast lenses even though they are all metal and glass.

And for what it's worth, given the title of this thread, all my manual focus lenses have either 10 or 12 aperture blades.

It goes for a lot more when new but used filters on eBay are much less expensive.

Yes, that link is for a used filter which is what I believe is what is actually being offered to the OP on eBay. Even though the item for sale on eBay is marked as new, I believe that is because they are unopened and unused filters. However, if the seller is not a primary distributor or dealer but is reselling an item that has been purchased, I believe they need to be marked as used even when they are sold in unopened like new packaging. I have contacted the seller for an update.