I'm impressed that you managed to get such good images of these twitchy little blighters that never stay still for me! :)

They are very commonplace in the North Yorkshire region of England (UK) and Scotland (UK). They are called Dry Stone Walls due to the absence of mortar. Construction of these is a dying skill with local interest groups trying to keep it going, especially at country fairs.

Why don’t you upload the two images. I’m pretty sure there is one or more Hogs out there who will help you out and then tell you how they did. This pool of photographers has a wealth of friendly talent.

Check out Anthony Morganti's website. There is a wealth of free advice, guidance and tutorials there. www.anthonymorganti.com. Good luck and focus on the bits you need. The program is vast! Howard

I have to say that in the USA you do this more enthusiastically than here in the UK. Well done.

Based on what you have said I would remove the lens and clean the contacts. Hope it helps.

The D500 is APS-C format.

Thanks Wallbanger, I had watched this video before starting but always worth another viewing. She is my first port of call with anything Lightroom. I have now fixed the problem, well about 95%. I resorted to uninstalling LR and deleting any files associated with LR, including some that still around from when I had LR5 on this computer. I didn't bother recopying the previews file - it took over 60 mins last time and I wanted everything fresh. I left the photos on the D: drive and installed LR CC on the C: drive. I copied over the catalog, linked the photos and let LR build the previews. This time everything ran smoothly. All I am missing is a older with a few images in. For some reason LR can't/won't see this folder. I'll live with that and be content the majority are there as I want them. I'm guessing the issue was something to do with the legacy files from LR5. Moral - delete the old stuff before installing the new.

Thanks for the response.

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I have installed Lightroom CC on a desktop PC, having used it on a macbook pro laptop for some time now. I copied the catalog to D:\Pictures\Lightroom\Lightroom Catalog.lrcat and the previews to D:\Pictures\Lightroom\Lightroom |Catalog Previews.lrdata, a second internal hard drive and did the same for the images files (D:\Pictures\Photography\.....), which previously were on an external drive. Apart from the root, the file structure is unchanged. I opened the appropriate LR catalog on the PC and attempted to get LR to find the missing images. It found some but not all. A considerable number are missing. As a test I tried to import some of the missing images but LR reported them as duplicates as they are already in the catalog. I'm not sure to what to do next and I would appreciate any guidance from you hogs on what I might have done wrong. Thanks in advance.

Jerry, please check your mac is compatible with win 10. I was about to upgrade when I checked and found out my 2010 macbook pro is not compatible with win 10.

You can hook up the monitor to the laptop without removing the screen. In settings you can choose to have the monitor and laptop screens active or only the monitor with the laptop blacked out - if memory serves correctly it should be fn/f5 to toggle between the different configurations. You will need to decide if you want to use the laptop keyboard and trackpad or use an external keyboard/mouse/pad arrangement. You should get the setup you want without any dismantling. Good luck.

True but please read your manual regarding vibration reduction, Olympus is body mounted while Panasonic is lens mounted.