Lightroom 2 crashes in final version with pictures of Leica M9

Angles and Corners of the Noctilux, originally uploaded by topfloor.

My LR2 crashed nearly every time I tried to develop pictures of a Leica M9 in the Develop module of LR2. After googling things, I found this on the Adobe website . . .

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Lightroom 2.6
From Adobe Labs

Welcome to the Adobe® Photoshop® Lightroom 2.6 release candidate on Adobe Labs. The ‘release candidate’ label indicates that this update is well tested but would benefit from additional community testing before it is distributed automatically to all of our customers. The Lightroom team would like the community to help verify the quality of this update through normal usage as this will ensure that the application is tested on a diversity of hardware and software configurations not available internally at Adobe.

If you do experience an issue with this release candidate please report it here: Bug Report Form

For more information on Lightroom 2 please visit the Lightroom pages on Adobe.com

Working with Lightroom 2.6
• Mac: The Mac Lightroom 2.6 release candidate can be installed alongside Lightroom 2.5.
• Windows: By default, this Lightroom 2.6 release candidate will remove or overwrite your existing Lightroom 2.5 installation. If you wish to return to Lightroom 2.5 after installing Lightroom 2.6, simply reinstall Lightroom 2.5 from your original download after uninstalling Lightroom 2.6 using the Windows add/remove program utility.

Both versions of the application share the same catalog format allowing your catalogs to be opened by either version without complications.

Leica M9 Users: The final releases of Lightroom 2.6 and Camera Raw 5.6 that followed this Release Candidate included a new bug that affects certain M9 images and causes the applications to crash. We've continued to provide access to the Release Candidates as the issue did not exist in these versions. The bug was introduced in the course of making image quality improvements to Leica M9 processing based on customer feedback. The Camera Raw and Lightroom teams recommend that you use the respective Release Candidate builds to work around the issue and apologize for this inconvenience while a new update is prepared.

To install Lightroom 2.6 Release Candidate, if you already have the final version:
• Mac: There is no need to delete the existing Lightroom 2.6 build. You can install the 2.6 RC directly.
• Win: You must uninstall Lightroom 2.6 via the Add or Remove Programs control panel before installing the Lightroom 2.6 RC.

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Installing the older Relaese candidate as suggested on the website helped.

Have fun!

Inspiring film

bad exhibition, originally uploaded by topfloor.

The film The Third & The Seventh by Alex Roman is a 7 minute long film about the beauty of architecture. The film is Cmputer generated and does a wonderful job with the use of Bokeh and Light.

Have a look and view on vimeo at full screen size in HD . . .

The Third & The Seventh from Alex Roman on Vimeo.

Have fun!

calling his girlfriend from the academy

calling his girlfriend from the academy, originally uploaded by topfloor.

Another year is nearly over. And what a good one 2009 was for my family and me. The christmas days are a chance to reflect what is behind and what is ahead of us. So I look forward to spending quality time with friends next year again, seing parts of the world I know and do not know yet.

On my agenda there are two photo projects, the Year with a Leica and the Photochallenge.org. One will force me to take photos with one given camera / lens combo through a year, the other stands for searching / composing daily themes. And my travels will hopefully bring me to the USA, Canada and Italy plus several trips to german cities (Hamburg, Berlin, Munich, Cologne for Photokina fair).

This picture was taken on my NYC trip in November, remembering me of the many cool things I was gifted to see during my one week stay in this marvelous city.

So I'll call and mail a few friends in the next days and finalize my plans for 2010.

Hope you have a great christmas time and look forward to the upcoming year as well.

Carsten

Christmas time . . .

Central Park IV - embrace the blue, originally uploaded by topfloor.

The month of december is always very hectic for me as my business has high season towards the end of the year. Capturing this nice lit tree in Central park a few weeks ago was one of the few glimpses of approaching christmas I was able to see and feel this season :-)

Go out and enjoy the lights, catch the bokeh.

The shot ' Central Park IV - embrace the blue ' was taken early in the morning.

Carsten

Hello from Leipzig . . .

Central Park III - warm lights, originally uploaded by topfloor.

. . . have been a bit busy in the last weeks, and more is to come down my december road. Just began to upload a few more pictures of my recent visit to New York, this one is

Central Park III - warm lights

and was shot (very) early on a late November day at f/1.0. Don't forget to get out and TAKE PICTURES, even if you don't have much time.

Happy shooting!

3 pics in the All day I dream about photography blog

look up and wonder, originally uploaded by topfloor.

Wow, a first timer . three of my London pictures were selected by this blog here

http://www.adidap.com/2009/11/13/adidap-flickr-round-2009-10-03/

First shot

First shot, originally uploaded by topfloor.

At Meister Leica Camera Store in Hamburg, on friday the 13th, a little magic happened in my favour. Only hours before departing for New York City I was able to pick up my M9. This is the first pic I took. Pictured is the counter, in the foreground my M8 (middleground Espresso was nice) and in the background another happy customer who picked up his new M9 as well.

EXIF: 1/90th at f/2 with ISO 160, 35mm ASPH

Farewell, am on my way to Gotham city :-)