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AikenMooney,

Your camera experience is almost exactly like ours. I used Nikons for years (as I used in Croatia 10 years ago in my previous post); however, I have since moved to the Olympus/OMDS system and now take my OMD OM1 plus the 12-100 f 4.0 and 7-14 f 2.8. My wife carries my older EM1MkII with the 14-150. It works out fine for us on trips in cities and countrysides. For our upcoming safari trip to Africa in two weeks, I will drop the WA and add my 100-400 5.0-6.3 for daylight animal shots and my 40-150 f 2.8 for low light conditions. The stabilazition afforded by the Oly lenses and OM 1 camera makes taking low light images at lower ISO much easier. Now, if I can get that night animals to stop moving that would be great! Earl
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You can spend as much as you like for a fast GPU, but a 3060 with 12GB is a good compromise between performance and price, and works fine with every PP advanced application I’ve tried it on - expect to pay $320-370 - painful (compared to your CPU), but that’s the price of powerful AI SW. be sure your power supply has the capacity and the correct connector to power the 3060 (or whatever card you decide.) You may find this chart which shows percormance and price for just about every graphics card helpful: https://www.videocardbenchmark.net/high_end_gpus.html

Listen Up- there is NO Shame in upgrading your camera equipment even if only for GAS! If you want it and you can afford it then go for it. You don't need anyone's permission here to do that. You don't need anyone here setting limits on what you buy or how often you buy or if you should buy. If you have a closet full of unused equipment that is your business.

Will it make you a better photographer? Maybe or maybe not. But it will be fun to find out. New equipment will often push you forward to becoming better by the technical advances. It may help you see improvement which may be the catalyst for more improvement.

Why is it there is honor in using outdated equipment? It is often said here that my (really old) equipment works just fine. Well that's fine for you but don't use it as a measure of why someone else should not buy new.

It use to be fun here seeing members say "The Brown Truck is coming and then it fell out of favor followed by other members denigrating the purchase of new equipment. (yes- I have been on this forum for a long time) Why- why taint new equipment purchase with underlying negative judgement? There are real advances in new cameras now that can achieve results that older cameras can't- ISO improvement, focus, reduced size and weight, focus stacking, interval and video results and many other advances.

So let's not treat our members as children but as thinking adults. We should be responding to the implied question of what did you gain by updating not should I update. And GAS is ok.

You can download a trial version of PSE and make a decision if PSE makes any more (or less) sense to your photo edit needs than LR.

Unless there's an economic reason to stop the subscription, it would make more sense so spend time with all the free video training available directly from Adobe (training your subscription pays for) and completely free via u-tube. You may find you know more than you think. Or, maybe after all this time, some things finally begin to make sense when you watch the video along with the explanation.

BTW: the subscription started roughly 2016 so you've vastly overstated the idea of 15-years of subscription. I'm not sure you even could have been using any version of LR for a full 15 years as of Aug 2021. Nevertheless, the product is the best of breed with the largest group of users in the industry. You're in the club, your best action is to stay here.

What is the down load speed recommendation for a Memory Card for my Olympus OM-D E M1-MK III camera. It has the burst mode capability.
Sequential shooting the Olympus is capable of 10 fps to 60 fps.


B&H as a SAN Disk card 128MB-KEY FEATURES: 128GB Storage Capacity UHS-I / Class 10 / U1 Max Read Speed: 100 MB/s Min Write Speed: 10 MB/s on sale for $16.99. Not a bad price. But the description says: Suitable for compact to mid-range point and shoot cameras- which my Olympus is not a point and shoot.