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Subject: [Leica] Spam (7.397):Re: Absence
From: sonc.hegr at gmail.com (Sonny Carter)
Date: Sat, 11 Jun 2016 22:20:50 -0500
References: <FE55AD84-85DA-45D9-AEE4-CE6AC9D5CE98@acm.org> <BEE0ADB8-30DF-499F-99CE-342EEF4710DA@frozenlight.eu> <D12FAD9D-F74C-4304-AD83-16EFAD326DAD@acm.org>

Much more important to me than transform is the huge increase in speed, way 
faster in loading and working images.

from my iPad

Sonny Carter

> On Jun 11, 2016, at 9:25 PM, Herbert Kanner <kanner at acm.org> wrote:
> 
> 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> 
>> wrote:
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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.
>> 
>> Cheers,
>> Nathan
>> 
>> 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. 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Herbert Kanner
>>> kanner at acm.org
>>> 
>>> Question Authority and the authorities will question you.
>>> 
>>> 
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In reply to: Message from kanner at acm.org (Herbert Kanner) ([Leica] Absence)
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