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According to La Vida Leica, Adobe says that from version 5.5, the Develop Module will be disabled unless you join the CC program:

 

"#Adobe today quietly announced that with the latest version of Lightroom (v5.5) those of you who no longer subscribe to Adobe CC will still be able to use all the functions of Lightroom, just not the develop and the map modules. You can still open up Lightroom, import & export images, create books, slide shows & web galleries, and even print your images."

 

The link to the Adobe Blog is here: What happens to Lightroom after my membership ends?

 

It is not very clarifying or comforting I think. Can someone explain? What does Leica say? Do I have to change to C1?

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The copy of Lightroom that you get with Leica products isn't the CC version, it is a stand alone version that you own. You are not a member of anything, you don't need to join anything.

 

What it means is that if you subscribed to the CC and let your subscription lapse that version of Lightroom will stop being fully functional, which make sense as you may have only been on CC for a year so would have got the product at a big discount had it continued to work forever. From the Adobe blog

 

"TH: This will not impact your previous standalone version of Lightroom and we will continue to provide upgrades to the perpetual versions of Lightroom."

 

Steve

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Is it possible to defer activating the Leica-supplied copy of Lightroom until, e.g., a Lightroom 6.0 is released?

 

Why would you not activate your copy, presuming the post above, copied below, can be taken at face value:

 

"TH: This will not impact your previous standalone version of Lightroom and we will continue to provide upgrades to the perpetual versions of Lightroom."

 

My copy, that came with the camera, or rather loaded with the supplied code, of LR was 5.4. It upgraded to 5.5 seamlessly. I anticipate the same will happen when LR 6 appears.

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Is it possible to defer activating the Leica-supplied copy of Lightroom until, e.g., a Lightroom 6.0 is released?

 

You will get the version current at the time you activate your License number. As said you will get all future updates.

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Is it possible to defer activating the Leica-supplied copy of Lightroom until, e.g., a Lightroom 6.0 is released?

 

That's what I did with my M9. I waited until the new release before activating my code. Leica took about a month to get the newer version into their system. So I used the trial and activated when Leica got their licencing sorted.

 

Gordon

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Why would you not activate your copy, presuming the post above, copied below, can be taken at face value:

 

"TH: This will not impact your previous standalone version of Lightroom and we will continue to provide upgrades to the perpetual versions of Lightroom."

 

My copy, that came with the camera, or rather loaded with the supplied code, of LR was 5.4. It upgraded to 5.5 seamlessly. I anticipate the same will happen when LR 6 appears.

 

You only get free updates for the version you have. If/when LR updates to V6 you will have to pay for the upgrade if you activated a LR5 code to begin with.

 

Gordon

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You only get free updates for the version you have. If/when LR updates to V6 you will have to pay for the upgrade if you activated a LR5 code to begin with.

 

Gordon

 

Yep. I started with a Leica-supplied v3, but had to pay to go to v4. I now have a Leica-supplied v5, updated free to v5.5, but expect to pay to go to v6 (next spring, by the sound of it), unless I go the rental route.

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The reason for not activating right away is that I've already paid for two copies of Lightroom 5: I bought the standalone version and a few months later, I subscribed to the stripped-down version of Adobe CC (which includes Photoshop as well as Lightroom). So if I registered the Leica-supplied copy now, I would get zero value from that. On the other hand, the right to get a standalone copy of Version 6 in the future would be worth something.

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Why would you not activate your copy' date=' presuming the post above, copied below, can be taken at face value: "TH: This will not impact your previous standalone version of Lightroom and we will continue to provide upgrades to the perpetual versions of Lightroom." My copy, that came with the camera, or rather loaded with the supplied code, of LR was 5.4. It upgraded to 5.5 seamlessly. I anticipate the same will happen when LR 6 appears.[/quote']

 

There won't be a Lightroom 6... It will simply be Lightroom CC.

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I'm away from my computer so can't check, but iirc doesn't the boot screen of LR CC refer to version 6.x anyway?

 

My comment related to the stand-alone LR software that Adobe stated would remain as such, not the CC version. The latest is 5.5.

 

Jeff

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That's the question, does that work?

 

It used to in the past, at least. I got my M9 when LR3 was the current version, didn’t need the Leica-provided license code as I already owned Lightroom 3. When LR4 came out, I was able to use said license code to activate LR4.

 

Cheers,

-Sascha

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