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Subject: [Leica] Spam (7.397):Re: Absence
From: kanner at acm.org (Herbert Kanner)
Date: Sat, 11 Jun 2016 19:25:57 -0700
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Thanks everyone for the good wishes.


Nathan: I sure agree with you about LR. As I said before, I upgraded from 
LR5 to LR6, which took quite a lot of effort because Adobe very cleverly 
concealed the way to do it. Then, I had a problem with format in the print 
module, kind of lost my temper, and downgraded to my LR5 copy because I just 
didn?t see any advantage in the stand-alone version of LR6. It seemed to me 
that from at least LR5 on, in ?lens corrections? there was a spectacularly 
effective mechanism for correcting verticals. In fact, I posted on the 
gallery an extreme example of corrected and unprotected shots of a tall 
building. So, I?m curious about the ?transform? that a few people are 
talking about now.

Herb

Herbert Kanner
kanner at acm.org

Question Authority and the authorities will question you.

> On Jun 9, 2016, at 11:02 PM, Nathan Wajsman <photo at frozenlight.eu> 
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> Sorry to hear about the ordeal, but glad to hear that you are 
> recovering?and happy birthday!
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> I have no intention of subscribing to CC. I like my software the 
> old-fashioned way, installed on my Mac. I have LR6 and if there is an LR7 
> I will take a look and decide. But no monthly subscription for me.
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> Cheers,
> Nathan
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> Nathan Wajsman
> Alicante, Spain
> http://www.frozenlight.eu <http://www.frozenlight.eu/>
> http:// <http://www.greatpix.eu/>www.greatpix.eu
> PICTURE OF THE WEEK: http://www.fotocycle.dk/paws 
> <http://www.fotocycle.dk/paws>Blog: http://nathansmusings.wordpress.com/ 
> <http://nathansmusings.wordpress.com/>
> Cycling: http://www.crazyguyonabike.com/belgiangator 
> <http://www.crazyguyonabike.com/belgiangator>
> YNWA
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>> On 10 Jun 2016, at 02:53, Herbert Kanner <kanner at acm.org> wrote:
>> 
>> You can say that I?ve been on medical leave from LUG.
>> 
>> First, an oncologist, on a routine visit, noticed an inflammation on my 
>> left leg. To my amazement, an exam table being in the room, she and her 
>> assistant got down on the floor and with fiber-points, drew a circle 
>> around my leg a bit above my ankle, prescribed an anti-biotic, and told 
>> me that if the redness got above that line, I should see my primary care 
>> doc about intra-venous anti-biotic.
>> 
>> My doctor being on vacation, I saw two other doctors in the next week. 
>> Each one modified the oral anti-biotic. When my doctor returned, she 
>> instantly sent me to the emergency room (ugh?the only quick way to get 
>> into Stanford Hospital) and I got intra-venous anti-biotic over night. By 
>> noon the next day, they decided it wasn?t an infection after all, but 
>> states dermatitis, and discharged me with treatment info.,
>> 
>> I think that treatment triggered overt congestive heart failure. I just 
>> am reluctant to believe in coincidences, and there4 was another 
>> non-trivial event that makes me believe that. My hemoglobin the night I 
>> entered the hospital for the anti-biotic was 12.8 and the day I left it 
>> was 10.8! Anyway, the symptom the following week was such extreme 
>> shortness of breath the walking from one room to another left me panting. 
>> I did not have the brains to be frightened, because in the course of the 
>> day, this gradually went away to the extent that by afternoon I was happy 
>> to walk up and down my driveway picking blue-berries from five bushes. 
>> Luckily, by the end of the week, I realized I must be in serious trouble, 
>> phoned my doctor, and got admitted to a cardiac unit at the hospital, 
>> where I spent a week before they sent me home. I had required oxygen at 
>> the hospital and they arranged for home installation, so shortly after I 
>> returned home, fifty feet of hose attached to a magic machine the sucks 
>> in air and puts out 92% oxygen was installed. All that hose so that I 
>> could walk to any room. And some small oxygen tanks for when I had to 
>> leave the house for a medical appointment.
>> 
>> All a waste! In two days, using my own pulse-oximeter, I established that 
>> I no longer needed oxygen?this agreed to by the visiting nurse. I?m 
>> pretty sure that between one an two weeks from now, I?ll be functioning 
>> normally and be out taking pictures with my M.
>> 
>> I see tantalizing discussion of a new LR release. I was just too cheap to 
>> subscribe to LR and just bought the LR6 upgrade. Then I got annoyed with 
>> continued failure to format decently a 4x6 print with their print module, 
>> and back-tracked to LR5?it seemed to me that the non-subscription LR6 at 
>> the time had no significant feature for me beyond those of LR5. I will 
>> now follow the discussion on the LUG of LR features. If they sound like 
>> stuff I would want, I?ll subscribe. Hell, I can afford it?I just have 
>> been offended by Adobe?s money grabbing tactics.
>> 
>> Herb
>> 
>> P.S. I turned 94 today. 
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>> 
>> Herbert Kanner
>> kanner at acm.org
>> 
>> Question Authority and the authorities will question you.
>> 
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