Adobe Lightroom

[jtori]

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I just learned from Leica U.S. that for all cameras shipped after Apr. 1 the scope of delivery is a 90-day trial of Adobe Photoshop Lightroom CC.  I was unaware of this fact until now and have consumed several hours investigating where I may be erring in my attemps to download and install the perpetual version of Lightroom.  I have also spent a couple hours participating in frustrating chats with Adobe a without achieving a resolution.

 

It would have been helpful to know this information before wasting time; I've already got a subscription to CC and don't need another.  While this fact wouldn't have altered my decision to purchase the camera, the addition of Lightroom is certainly a sweetener.  

 

Arrggghhh!

 

Joe.

[Jed Orme]

Glad you posted this as I have LR6 already installed on my Mac that came with an M240 I got last year, but I've been having some stability issues with it that didn't get resolved when I just upgraded it to LR6.6.  So I was thinking that with the separate LR license I got from my purchase of a Q in mid April, I might just go ahead & uninstall my present LR & then download a new one with the second license.  Probably if I had tried to do this I would have found myself with only a 90 day license from the Q instead of the perpetual one that came with the first camera.  Whew, that was close!

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[sumolux]

I posted about this coming a few months back and nobody wanted to believe me....

Typical of Adode to force feed clients....Same happend to me with a so-called Adode Acrobat Pro upgrade...

[jtori]

A brief followup to my post of yesterday:  I received confirmation from Leica Camera AG, in Germany, that the desktop version of Lightroom is no longer included with Leica cameras.

 

Here's an extract from their email response:

 

"Thank you for your E-mail.  Please keep in mind, that Lightroom 6 is no longer part of the delivery for all Leica cameras which were manufactured after 1^st  of April, 2016 .... That’s why you’ve received the 90 day trial Creative Cloud Photographic Plan."

 

The email went on to extoll the virtues of CC.

 

Perhaps this information can prevent others going down the rabbit hole, as I did.

 

Best,

 

Joe.  

 

[ralpheburns]

There's lots of dealers including Leica franchises whose advertisement of "what's in the box" needs updating to reflect the downgrade.  I was wee disappointed to learn that the perpetual license of Lightroom was not included as advertised.

[katsanes]

I posted about LR not coming any longer as well, doh!

[microview]

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t I've been having some stability issues with it that didn't get resolved when I just upgraded it to LR6.6. 

 

So how did you achieve the upgrade to 6.6? I am not the only person with LR6 (.0) perpetual who finds when checking for updates we get the message: program 'fully up to date'. (Actually I have gone back to LR% as 6 seems to take so long to open up on my Mac!) And apart from auto-eject of SD card there's not much new with 6 versus 5.)

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[mija1789]

So how did you achieve the upgrade to 6.6? I am not the only person with LR6 (.0) perpetual who finds when checking for updates we get the message: program 'fully up to date'. (Actually I have gone back to LR% as 6 seems to take so long to open up on my Mac!) And apart from auto-eject of SD card there's not much new with 6 versus 5.)

 

 

My upgrade from 6.5 to 6.6 was simply done via "Help>Updates".

The 6.6 upgrade expands the "Transform" palette by including multiple manual functions (rotate, aspect, scale, offset ...).

[Bobitybob]

So how did you achieve the upgrade to 6.6? I am not the only person with LR6 (.0) perpetual who finds when checking for updates we get the message: program 'fully up to date'. (Actually I have gone back to LR% as 6 seems to take so long to open up on my Mac!) And apart from auto-eject of SD card there's not much new with 6 versus 5.)

 

 

This happened to me until I updated to the newest version of the Adobe Apllication Manager.  Alternatively, you could try this link https://helpx.adobe.com/lightroom/kb/lightroom-downloads.html

[Jed Orme]

So how did you achieve the upgrade to 6.6? I am not the only person with LR6 (.0) perpetual who finds when checking for updates we get the message: program 'fully up to date'. (Actually I have gone back to LR% as 6 seems to take so long to open up on my Mac!) And apart from auto-eject of SD card there's not much new with 6 versus 5.)

As in above, I did it through the Help>Update routine.  But you might have to follow the instructions for updating the CC version, which accepted & updated my perpetual license for LR6 version.

[Jeff S]

 

The 6.6 upgrade expands the "Transform" palette by including multiple manual functions (rotate, aspect, scale, offset ...).

 

Perpetual users do not receive new features like CC users.....they get basic changes like camera/lens updates, etc.  Features added after initial LR6, e.g., de-haze, localized black/whites, etc apply to CC only, not standalone LR 6 owners.....that will have to wait for LR 7, assuming there even is a standalone version, which I'm beginning to doubt.

 

Jeff

[mija1789]

Perpetual users do not receive new features like CC users.....they get basic changes like camera/lens updates, etc.  Features added after initial LR6, e.g., de-haze, localized black/whites, etc apply to CC only, not standalone LR 6 owners.....that will have to wait for LR 7, assuming there even is a standalone version, which I'm beginning to doubt.

 

Jeff

 

That's why I was surprised, as a perpetual user, to see the newer "Transform" palette.

However, there were indeed none of the other additional features (de-haze, localised black/whites ...)

[Jeff S]

That's why I was surprised, as a perpetual user, to see the newer "Transform" palette.

However, there were indeed none of the other additional features (de-haze, localised black/whites ...)

 

I suspect that since the manual perspective controls were already in place, this was considered a 'fix' of sorts, rather than a new tool.  But, yes, any enhancements for perpetual users are unusual.

 

Jeff