Transferring images from an M8

[LuxBob]

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Not unsure - disappointed! I have never heard of such a licensing arrangement in all of my life. How on earth can someone justify such a restrictive arrangement that benefits only one person - the creator of the software - ie You buy this from me but only YOU can then use it. You cannot sell it, you cannot pass it on to your best friend. Technically if you are a photographer and you set up a company and seek to continue using the software then you should not do that either.

 

Complete BS on the part of the licenser. Is it any wonder people turn to illegal DL sites to get software. Of course I would not do that and do not advocate it - I just make the comment.

It is standard throughout the industry and also necessary. Without this type of protection, the vendors would sell few originals as it would be easy to install the software on an unlimited number of machines. So the vendors would make no money which would mean people like Adobe might not produce such excellent imaging software.

As others have said it is unusual to get a usable version of the software in a second hand sale but in terms of your overall cost picking up a copy of Lightroom, Aperture or Elements is relatively low cost. Do it, you won't regret it.

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[andybarton]

That's exactly how all software licencing works (apart from open sourced). You don't own the software, you own a licence to use it.

[ho_co]

... I run XP Pro SP3 and Lightroom 3.2.

 

When I connect the camera with the USB cable the images appear in LR as .tif files. When I put the SD card from de camera in the cardreader on my laptap the same files appear in LR as .DNG files... ...

 

See M8 FAQ 1.1 from Nov 2008.

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[Shootist]

It is standard throughout the industry and also necessary. Without this type of protection, the vendors would sell few originals as it would be easy to install the software on an unlimited number of machines. So the vendors would make no money which would mean people like Adobe might not produce such excellent imaging software.

As others have said it is unusual to get a usable version of the software in a second hand sale but in terms of your overall cost picking up a copy of Lightroom, Aperture or Elements is relatively low cost. Do it, you won't regret it.

 

That is not correct. If I un/de/register and uninstall any of my copies of PS I can then sell them to anyone and they can install and register them. So far I have never done this with photo software but I have done it with other types of software.

[peterm1_Leica]

That's exactly how all software licencing works (apart from open sourced). You don't own the software, you own a licence to use it.

 

I perfectly well understand the concept of licensing of software. But most software licences allow you to sell the license to a 3rd party, so long as you do not continue to use the product.