In case you have not heard, Adobe announced plans to abandon selling software outright and setup a subscription only model. As such, you will have to continue to pay, every month, to not only use 'your' software, but to access and work on the files you have created. Stop paying and it ceases to function. The issue here is that Adobe does not consider the software 'yours'. In their opinion, it never was yours in the first place. So from their perspective, this marks a natural evolution in software marketing. I beg to disagree. I'm not in Adobe's pocket so I get to speak out. Any other subscription based software simply ceases to … [Read more...] about The Great Adobe Marketing Debacle
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My Long and Twisted Path to Photo Nirvana
A ridiculously long narrative intended to entertain and inform I've been around a while and used a lot of different gear. I've also seen the photo market go through a lot of changes. Including the disruptive transition from film to digital. I've always been a 'camera geek' and wanna-be camera collector. ShutterBug magazines were never far from hand and then there is eBay. At age 10, my 1st camera was a Kodak Brownie. A simple box camera. I still have black & white prints of the shots I took with it of the Good Friday Earthquake of 1964. In my late teens, I scored a used Olympus Pen FT (1/2-frame 35mm porro-prism) with 3 lenses. It … [Read more...] about My Long and Twisted Path to Photo Nirvana