Virtually all recent Tamron lenses and also most other third party lenses have focus motors and are therefore AF-S. Most third party lenses need focus motors so that they can work with Canon mounts and all newer Nikon cameras, some of whom don't have internal focus motors.

Automated stacking of any kind will probably require a lens focus motor. Reference to the camera manual should indicate whether your model has focus bracketing as a choice.

Good luck with this art form.

UsedPhotoPro (Roberts Camera)

You have to get your folder organization right from the beginning. LR is first and foremost a digital asset manager and it's greatest strength is the ability to organize stored images so you can find them again. Before you do anything else, consider how to organize your picture folders. As others have mentioned, start with a master folder for all LR images. I use "My Lightroom Pictures". Then you need to decide how you want to store images in subfolders. I do mine by date, but you could do yours by event or job or whatever. When importing images, use keywords liberally to indicate what the subject of the image is.

Secondly, learn how to find images through keywords and metadata.

Many good books on LR as well as many YouTube or Adobe videos on how to accomplish these things. Just Google Lightroom videos or tutorials.

Lightroom Classic for 95%
Aurora for HDR 5%

Would consider Luminar if their DAM to be introduced soon would work for me

Great place and you have had a lot of very good suggestions. We go every year for a month. Sedona might be worth a day trip but plan on near 4 hours driving round trip. Grand Canyon and Horseshoe Bend are only possible with an overnight. One think you don't hear about Horseshoe Bend is that those photos were taken with an extreme wide angle and hanging over a cliff with a 1000 foot drop.

My favorites within the local area are
Desert Botanical Garden
Musical Instrument Museum ( pictures are ok)
McDowell Mountain Nature Area (NE Scottsdale and lots of trails - some with views of downtown)
Pinnacle Peak Park (Google it)
Fountain Hills has some great views of high end residential areas from height
View from South Mountain at sunset or sunrise
Tempe Camera

Enjoy

BTW, it is pretty dark. You will need probably at least ISO 800. Too large an f stop will leave some things out of focus, especially with FF camera. I shot everything at f2.8, but I use MFT, so DOF is not as much problem.

Tom

I was just there (upper) on March 3. The environment is a little dusty (there was some wind, but not a factor in the canyon. The only thing I noticed was that the lens hood was kind of stuck do to being gritty. I used a 24-80 equivalent lens and it was just barely wide enough. The best lens to take would be the widest prime you have, 24 mm or wider, and as fast as possible. It's a great experience in any case. We didn't do the photo tour, but had plenty of time for picture taking and a guide that showed us the best places and angles to get the best shots. He was the best iPhone expert I have ever met. Bear in mind that there will be LOTS OF PEOPLE all the time. I got my best shots pointing up over their heads. Have fun.

I am debating between the Oly 12-100 f4 and a 14-150 for a tour of Hawaii. I just wonder if it is too heavy and bulky. My original plan was to take the EM-5 II, with a 12-40 f2.8, 25 f1.8 and a 14-150. With the 12-100, I would leave all behind except the 25. I traveled to U.K. in 2103 with just a Canon 70D and a 18-135, and was pretty satisfied with the outcome. Camera did get heavy at times. And, no my budget won’t allow a system switch. It will be m 4/3. All considering the Panasonic 14-140.

Thanks

Tom🤔

Having taken 4grand children to WDW this past spring, Your big camera and flash seem exhausting. There are several rides that won’t allow flash, so you will need to put away. the park will be very crowded and if you are of the age to have 4 grandkids, you will be exhausted. I used a Olympus OM D EM-5 II with a 12-40 2.8 PRO and it was too much. The Disney Photo Pass is $150 and gives you great family pictures. They use Nikon D7100/18-105. Probably the best gear for a trip like this is a weatherproof point and shoot of high quality. At f8 you will have a lot of VERY high ISO pics.
At any rate I recommend that you travel light, shoot lots, consider using either P or Tv mode. Bokeh will not be much of a concern except for still portraits, and you will want the background for context. Hope you enjoy the kids and the park and take some time to REST.😀😀

This is a 1950 or 1949 Chevy Deluxe 4 door. The ‘51 had a different grille and the ‘52 I believe had a one piece windshield. Complete new body in 1953 and repeated with a few changes in ‘54.

For an amateur who would like to share photos with friends or provide off-site storage, Basic Smugmug works very well and is economical. Not being professional, I have-not tried to sell from my site.

I dropped an a6000 from waist high which cracked the LCD screen. Sony had me send to Precision Camera in CT. I got a somewhat prompt response that the screen was unrepairable but after a delay of about 3-4 weeks, they sent me a brand new camera with another 16-50 lens. It was white, but it was free. I would rate their service as more than fair if a little slow. This helped me on my tour of France the next month as I carried to a6000s and hand both 16-50 and 55-210 ready to shoot. About the same weight as my 70D Canon and 18-135.

I recommend that you go to Tempe Camera on W. University in Tempe. They have every kind of camera there and I think all the lenses. They are helpful and can give you some advice on what you might want and you can handle the cameras to see which ones are best for your hands, etc.

Good shopping!

I think mborn has the right idea. Just move the selected photos into the new drive by dragging them onto the external drive. I think you should start though with creating a folder on your external drive named "My Lightroom Pictures" or something like that and then drag into that. Depending on how may pictures you have, this will probably take a while.

I keep my catalog on my internal drive and all my pictures on an external drive with a backup to a second external drive. Always belt and suspenders.

I think you should ask yourself what you will want to do with your photos and how many photos you are likely to shoot and process in a year. If the answer is only a few, then you can devise a simple system to keep track of your photos so that you can find them later. Affinity is a good post-processing app, but is not really a DAM (Digital Asset Manager). If your shoot hundreds of photos a year, then you should take a look at Lightroom, which for the $9.95 a month comes with the Photoshop package in Adobe CC. With Apple removing support from Aperture, LR is the best at cataloging and retrieving images the Mac. It can also do most photo adjustments that you would want AND you get PS along with it if you later want to do editing requiring layers or more sophisticated editing.

Since you use a Mac, you might also look into Luminar, which is often on sale and is quite sophisticated and has easy to use presets.

I have used Elements before and I found LR a lot easier to use. Also, my catalog is large enough that I need the cataloging features of LR.