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A new Leica Q is in my bag, and my M9-P is resting while I familiarise myself with the handling of a very different camera..  Now I have the opportunity of a free installation of LR 6  so  I've downloaded the installation files but have stopped short of installing the software on my Macbook Pro.  

I've been using LR4 since 2012.   

Clearly, LR6 will facilitate the Q.   (1)  Is it not possible to add the correct Q profile to previous versions? (2) Are there other reasons why LR6 and Q combine well?  

 

All advice based on your experience would be appreciated.

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Why don't you want to upgrade to LR6? its free and the program has advanced quite a bit since LR4

 

Id suggest you upgrade...but if for some reason you just don't want to LR4 doesn't require a profile as Leica uses DNG files which are supported by all versions of LR. To get the most out of the color profile though, you will need LR6

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All advice based on your experience would be appreciated.

 

Installing LR6 will NOT erase your LR4 installation !

So you can easily use both. The only caveat: you might have to start a new LR library, since converting the old LR4 to a LR6 library would prevent a further use with LR4. But you can open a copy of your LR4 library, convert it to LR6 and edit all your old images also with LR6.

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You can just upgraded are Adobe camera raw without upgrading LR

I'm interested in learning how to do this.  I have a 15" MacBook Pro with an SSD drive but although it is fast, it has limited capacity.

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I'm interested in learning how to do this. I have a 15" MacBook Pro with an SSD drive but although it is fast, it has limited capacity.

adobe camera raw is an free software, you may go to Adobe official website, download the latest Mac version, say v9.1, just install in your Mac, it will ask you about whether to upgrade existing camera raw in LR, then just follow the wizard, and you got it. Do check the latest version of camera raw might not support VERY old version of LR.

 

 

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