michael_levy3

M10, Summicron 35. Coffee Shop, Vancouver

Thanks Arthur. I have one print at a gallery, but no exhibitions planned.

I should mention that it is Gampi Silk Tissue - supposed to be very good at holding ink.

I'd like to try and print on tissue paper. I would of course stick the paper to a paper of regular thickness first. But I was wondering if it might damage my Canon Pro 1000? Any one try this?

It was a very busy (non photographic) week or two. So I have chosen one of the first pictures I took when I went Leica. I prefer sticking to genuine "pictures of the week", which I will get back to next week. Promise? Promise. Hillcrest farmers Market, Vancouver. Leica M Typ 262, Summicron 35mm

Completing a "B&W Film" course. Scanned enlarged photo. Picture taken with a Leica M2 and Summicron 35mm lens. Part of my final project.

I am not qualified to tell you whether or not the world is experiencing climate change. I just document what I see. With my trusty M10 and my Summilux 50mm lens, hand held. 1/3 second at f11. Yaletown, Vancouver. Today (February 22, 2019). Yet another unusual (for Vancouver) February snow dump.

50mm Summilux, M10 Classic Dodge Interior. Victoria BC

I just did an experiment: I turned all these options off. I quit creative cloud. I restarted my computer. I went to "Logins Options" on my preferences pane. Only Dropbox was showing. But when I look at what tasks are running I see these: Adobe Desktop Services AdobeCRDaemon (3 of them, actually) AdobeIPCBroker CCLibrary CCXProcess Core Sync Core Sync Helper There may be more. Furthermore, the first of these was using 70% of my CPU for a while. Not only are they (from a functional point of view) unnecessary, but Adobe have gone out of their way to make it hard for most users to stop this behaviour. It is possible that they are there to make launch of their apps faster. But if that is the case, I would much rather be given the choice with a preference like "enable processes for faster launch". The Core Sync ones I can understand, but I don't use Adobe cloud for photos so what is being synced here? My hunch is that the some of the other processes are there for the purpose of analytics. And the purpose of analytics is to improve marketing, not my experience. The others reflect laziness on the part of the software engineers.

I use Dropbox, and I don't mind its task bar or its background process: they are needed for its core functionality, namely to keep my files synchronized on all my devices. When I add a humungous file from one of my devices, I am happy when, two days later, say, I can get it on another device without having to wait for a server download. I am NOT against background processes: I am against unnecessary background processes. There is only one good use case for Lightroom - an optional background process to keep Lightroom up-to-date. There are some apps I would not touch with a 10 foot barge pole: I just know too much to be confident that my privacy is not being compromised.

I know the topic of alternatives to Lightroom have been covered many times. But I am thinking of finally quitting. But not for the reasons you (probably) think. - I mostly don't mind the interface. Performance is a bit sluggish, but I can live with that. - I understand the reasons for a subscription model, and I can accept that. I run Mac OS X. And I am a retired Apple software engineer. So I think I understand Macs, OS X and software. What really bugs me is Adobe's software installation model. Firstly, there is the stupid "Creative Cloud" app that runs in my task bar. It does nothing for my user experience. Sure, it alerts me for updates, but I would way prefer that message only to appear when I launch or am running Lightroom. I use Lightroom probably less than 10% of my overall time at the computer. Why do I want CC running the other 90% of the time? When I remember, I quit it, and then (because I subscribe) I have to remember to relaunch it when I want to use Lightroom. I mean really. Now, even when I quit CC and Lightroom, my computer's process space is polluted by Adobe processes. Like "Adobe Desktop Service" and "AdobeCRDeamon" (I have 3 of them running for some reason). AdobeIPCBroker. CCLibrary. CCXProcess. Core Sync. Core Sync Helper. And I have probably missed some. Let me reiterate: this is when CC is NOT running and Lightroom is not running. Now you might tell me to just ignore this extra stuff. It is mostly invisible, anyway. But every one of these pieces is a potential point of bugs and a potential point of security compromises. But mostly, it is completely and utterly unnecessary for Adobe to have architected Lightroom this way. I checked Capture One (trial) today. Yes, while it was running there were some background processes, but when it was not running, there were none of its stuff running. And that is exactly as it should be. The only processes that should be running should be the ones that are necessary for the task I am doing, or for the functionality of the OS. If you think I am missing something, I would love to hear about that.

Friend lent me a 10mm lens. Not for me. But this from the hip shot sort of appeals to me.

M10, 35mm Summicron. Broadway and Yukon, Vancouver BC

Summicron 35mm, M10. Something different - not a Joshua Tree! Vancouver, BC.

Happy 2019 everyone. Light show at Van Dusen Gardens, Vancouver. M10 with 50mm Summilux, 1600 iso, f 1.4

M10, 35mm Summicron. Oakridge Mall, Vancouver

Thanks for the link! I just watched it, and it was very useful. Follow up question though: do you think that the i1Studio handheld is up to the task of producing profiles that are better than canned profiles? The price difference between it and the i1isis is very big, but that does not necessarily mean that the i1Studio is not capable of making a difference.

So far I have been using the paper manufacturers icc profiles with my Canon Pro 1000. I am happy with the result, but I wonder if I could do better.... Is it worth considering, for example, an x-rite i1Studio for my printer? (I already uses a Spyder Pro 5 for my monitor).

What make is this? It looks good.

Seasons in the Park, Queen Elizabeth Park, Vancouver. M10, 35mm Summicron.

M10, 35mm Summicron. Kerrisdale, Vancouver.

Yea, I know - somehow they look very odd to me now. I should have picked a different photo!

Part of my class project. Main Street, Vancouver. M10, 50mm Summilux.

75mm Summicron, M10. 3200 block, Main Street, Vancouver. PS: I sent this lens back to Leica for warranty repair (it was back-focussing about 10cm). There might have been something else wrong with it too, because it so much better now! Moral of story: even new Leica lenses may have defects.

M10, 35 Summicron. Main Street Vancouver.