Adobe is guaranteed to stop supporting new cameras in LR 2 once LR 3 is released.  You can take that to the bank.

I agree that there are no compelling reasons, so far, to upgrade to LR 3.

The free version of Syncback is available here.

Peter,

Which version of Syncback do you use?  The free version which is just called SyncBack I think, or SyncBackSE or SyncBack Pro?

Thanks,

Paul

Eileen,

Are you using SP2?  What types of files are you trying to sync the annotations between?

Paul

For Canadians having trouble upgrading, I reccommend reading the thread entitled "Expression Media 2 Availability" at the Microsoft forums for Expression Media.

Follow the directions and you may be surprised.

Best regards,

Paul

Personally, I'd recommend moving to Expression Media 2.

The benefits (notably speed) are much more positive than any of the bugs.  All software has bugs regardless of the version.  It is just a fact of software development.

I've had very little issues and find it much more usable.

Best regards,

Paul

In my testing, the recently released update to Quicktime (7.4.5) fixes the crashing problems I was having with both iView and Expression Media.

Best regards,

Paul

Richard,

From what I recall, I had a somewhat similar experience and it related to upgrading my Quicktime to the latest version 7.4.

I downgraded Quicktime to 7.3 and the program began behaving normally again.

What version of Quicktime is installed on your machine?

Eexpressions Media currently has the same problem with Quicktime 7.4.

The question I have is where I can find the older version so that my workflow isn't broken?

Best regards,

Paul

It sounds like you have a virus or a trojan installed on your system.  If that's the case, changing the password won't help.

You'll want to run an up-to-date virus scan to make sure your machine is clean.

Best regards,

Paul

It sounds like you have a virus or a trojan installed on your system.  If that's the case, changing the password won't help.

You'll want to run an up-to-date virus scan to make sure your machine is clean.

Best regards,

Paul

I had a good experience with Pc-Pitsop.

Best regards,

Paul

Just a note that it is NVidia that says it is a Quicktime problem, not Microsoft.

I had that problem when I upgraded my video drivers to the latest from NViidia.  Apparently it is Quicktime's bug, but it is the latest video drivers that trigger the problem.

Until they fix Quicktime I downgraded my video drivers to the previous incarnation and all is good now.

Louie,

To me, it is a trade off between disfiguring an image with a watermark or allowing unfettered "borrowing" of an image.

Personally, I do watermark the images on my web site, with a somewhat subtle transparent embossed effect.  The watermark is usually off to one corner or the other.  I keep the resolution of my images to 720 pixels on the longest side.

There is no practical way of stopping someone from borrowing an image from a web site.  You can go to all sorts of lengths of disabling right-clicking or constantly emptying the clipboard, but these methods are useless against anyone who knows what they are doing.  And, a lot of these methods just annoy legitimate users.

By keeping the size of my images down to 720 pixels on the long side and tagging them with a watermark, I am effectively limiting the size someone can reasonably print the image at, and if they do print it, my mark is there (although it could be removed with some effort).  I also try to make sure that all my images are tagged with the appropriate IPTC data so that the images could be found if someone a little less knowledgeable were trying to pass them off as their own.

There are, unfortunately, no perfect answers to this problem.