Thank you, much appreciated!

Thanks for the replies. I am not sure I made my question clear though. I know that all of the Olympus cameras that are still supported can be updated. My question is whether or not I would be prohibited from installing an existing firmware update if I had purchased the camera as a parallel import. In other words, could I be blocked from installing firmware or registering the camera, if the serial number doesn't correspond to my location, or if there is some other way in which that could be detected? . I'm just trying to determine if there are any potential consequences of buying a parallel import that I am unaware of. I haven't find any other stores with one in stock, or a second hand one for sale.

I am considering purchasing an EM1X that is a parallel import. I would like to know if anyone could confirm that installing firmware updates is still allowed by OMD with a legally purchased, but parallel imported camera?

I live in New Zealand.

Many thanks,

Mike

I feel compelled to respond, as I was just in exactly the same situation as you. I got so frustrated that I broke down and spent $4K last week that I couldn't afford on a new iMac, with 8 core processor 8GB video and 1TB Flash storage. my LR catalogue only runs the slightest bit faster, but hardly any difference. and I still get the spinning beach ball all the time, and it still takes over a minute to boot up, even with the Flash hard disk, which I think is just wrong. It is definitely faster with processor intensive tasks like running Topaz, which was my biggest frustration, but for everyday tasks like browsing, email video conference etc, It's not really noticeable better And for what it's worth I installed the new operating system from scratch, and re installed my apps.

My advice is before you go and spend a bunch of money like I did, try wiping your drive and reinstalling from scratch, and If your machine does not have an SSD, get a fast external one and boot it directly from that. that makes the biggest difference. That is what I did with my old iMac and it runs SO much faster and smoother it's like a new machine. The boot drive makes the biggest difference!

The specs on your current iMac are quite good, and there is no reason why you shouldn't be able to comfortably use it for your purposes. try a faster boot drive if you can, before putting down the cash.

Mike

Excellent technique! Beautiful captures! Bravo!

I didn't think too much about the articulating screen feature when I bought the D750, but I have to say that having it is so nice and definitely a bonus! It's great for framing low level shots while looking straight down at the screen. Also allows you to be much less conspicuous at times in street photography. You have to use liveview which is still slow and clumsy, but in good light and a with little practice it is really useful! I love having it!

Thank you all for your input to my query. Ultimately, there did not seem to be a way to do what I had hoped to be able to do, and I ended up just making a new catalogue and re-importing all 65,000 images. It took about a day and a half for some reason, and now it's done but it has caused a new problem. Maybe I should start this in a new thread to potentiallly help warn other newbies who maybe trying to do what I am, but I'd have to go back and explain again what I did in the first place, so if you're interested read on and tell me what the hell I could have done wrong to cause this!!

After reimporting my whole cataloque and having lightroom copy to a new directory folder with the Date/Month hierarchy that I was trying to achieve, I discovered that a huge number of images had been put into the 2015 year folder. When I looked, around 10,000 or more of the photos I imported were from much earlier years and didn't belong there. When I tried to figure out why, I discovered that they all had the same capture date, (27 May 2015) which is when I did the original import.

Now I have never even tried to play around with metadata, or knowingly changed any setting relating to it, so how in the heck did that happen? I knew that there are a large number of files in my library that came from scanned prints and some from early digital cameras that didn't have capture dates imbedded, so I thought that maybe lightroom had just assigned those files with the current date, but when I got looking through, there are also more recent photos that have been changed. I noticed that all of them seemed to be jpeg's. Many of these I recognized as photos that I had both Raw+Jpeg versions of. Now I know that I did not have the box checked to tell lightroom to treat Raw+Jpeg as seperate files, so why would it change the capture date on only the jpeg's? And why only some and not all? Who knows what I did to cause that, but if I can learn, it could be useful for the future. Any ideas are welcome.

In the meantime I'll keep reading what I can and try to get a better understanding of how this very cool but very complex program works. Maybe one day I'll be able to start actually DOING something with all these darn pictures instead of spending all of my time just trying to maintain them!! I'm getting close!

Happy snapping!

Michael

Greetings friends! This is my first post on the forum and I am just starting to learn lightroom so I will first ask my question and then I will explain my setup, so you will hopefully not have to read more than necessary to suggest a solution.

Is there a way to ask lightroom to Physically move my existing files into a new file structure on the same drive, based on date taken with one subdirectory for each year, and a folder for each month below that.. without exporting and reimporting all of the photos?

I have one lightroom catalogue with 62,000 images on a macbook pro. My cataloque resides in my pictures folder on the laptop itself. All of the image files reside on an external USB 3 drive in a single folder organised into subfolders for each year only. I did this organization outside of lightroom initially.

I later learned that on import, I could have lightroom copy files into folders by month below the year subfolder, so I started doing that with the new imports. Now I only have the most recent imports in those folders, but I would like to go back and have the whole collection organized that way physically to simplify storage and backup and make it easy to use my photos outside of lightroom. I know I could probably create a new catalogue and reimport everything while copying to a new location, but I am hoping that someone knows of a more efficient way to do it from withing lightroom. Thanks for any suggestions....

Michael

Thanks I will try that. Thank you for taking the time help, I really appreciate it!

Thanks so much for your suggestion! When I click import and select the drive where my photos are, any file or folder I select is greyed out and lightroom says that "this photo has already been imported" what I am trying to do is export or rather physically "move" the files that are already there, to a subfolder based on the year/month that it was taken. I have only been able to find a way to do this from lightroom on import, but was hoping to avoid reimporting 62,000 photos and rebuilding the previews etc. in a new cataloque while rewriting or copying files to a new location. I might be asking for something that can't be done, I'm not sure. I hope I'm explaining what I'm trying to do well enough. Thanks so much for your help!

I have not yet done any editing in lightroom

Greetings friends! This is my first post on the forum and I am just starting to learn lightroom so I will first ask my question and then I will explain my setup, so you will hopefully not have to read more than necessary to suggest a solution.

Is there a way to ask lightroom to Physically move all of my files into a new file structure on the same drive, based on date taken with one subdirectory for each year, and a folder for each month below that.. without exporting and reimporting all of the photos?

I have one lightroom catalogue with 62,000 images on a macbook pro. My cataloque resides in my pictures folder on the laptop itself. All of the image files reside on an external USB 3 drive in a single folder organised into subfolders for each year only. I did this organization outside of lightroom initially.

I later learned that on import, I could have lightroom copy files into folders by month below the year subfolder, so I started doing that with the new imports. Now I only have the most recent imports in those folders, but I would like to go back and have the whole collection organized that way physically to simplify storage and backup and make it easy to use my photos outside of lightroom. I know I could probably create a new catalogue and reimport everything, but I am hoping that someone knows of a more efficient way to do it from withing lightroom. Thanks for any suggestions....

Michael