Recent content by SnapperMatt

Thanks for your help everyone. Very reassuring

Currently considering ordering from either Panamoz or HDEW. I see Panamoz have a good reputation generally but haven't seen so much about HDEW who are cheaper than Panamoz for what I'm looking at. Has anyone got any experience of HDEW and are they considered reputable like Panamoz or are they...

Very helpful, thank you. And your images are fantastic! It seems that the change is likely to be somewhat awkward at first with a bit of a learning curve but that, in most cases, people have found it worth persevering. I've read that many find the EVF strange at first after an optical one but...

James and Mike, thank you for your thoughts. Very helpful and some things to think about

Looking for some basic advice please. I've been a member here for a while but due to real life 'things' and other factors my very amateur photography has taken a back seat for a few years but now I'm back in what seems a very different world... I have a Canon 7D (not even a Mark II) and a...

I'd guess its not the card - the file appears to have been corrupted after you copied it to your PC. The reason I think this is because the explorer preview is fine which would suggest the file was fine when that was generated. As to why the file may have become corrupted, the most common...

Just a quick comment on this... It is fairly common for people starting to use raw to be initially disappointed with the output and to feel it is lower quality than a jpeg. I was. The reason for this is that the jpeg you get from the camera is the original raw file, together with the...

Excellent news! Glad its sorted as well as possible

Yes, try restoring that one (as described in my last post) - this should be the most up to date version with all your edits up to the backup date. Any imports and / or edits made between the backup and the crash will not be in there though so you will need to re-import the images and re-do any...

Good news on the original images being safe! Given that you should be able to open the latest backup you had of the catalogue before your crash. In your screenshot you can see the backups folder they are stored in - but I guess that if you have re-installed LR, this will only have backups in...

One thing I'm not clear about is exactly what files you have and what files have been recovered or kept. Do you have all your original image files? Either on your current disk or in a backup - or have some of these been lost? Also, did they wipe the drive in your PC or have they put in a new...

Strange... Can you check how many lrcat files you have? When you first ran the reinstalled copy of lightroom it would have created a new one and if you then imported your original files into the new folder they would all have no edits on them. Is there perhaps your old catalogue somewhere...

I think you can do 'File\Open catalogue...' and select one to open it It sounds like you have created a new catalogue with the new install and then re-imported the images to the new catalogue. Hopefully if you open an old one it will have all your edits - you may need to point it to the...

The lightroom catalogue file holds all the edits: this will be called <something>.lrcat I have always saved mine to a specific place, but it looks as though the adobe default location is in 'My Documents'. Hope this helps