No Good Crossover Lens So What Is a Good L Series Lens For Landscape?

[Far-Out-Dude]

Since it does not sound like there will be a good cross over lens for both Landscape and Astro what would be a good RF L series Landscape Lens for what I am shooting pictures off. I will be using my R5 Mark ii I will let you know I love shooting waterfalls and snow if that helps.

[Far-Out-Dude]

I like it but seems whenever I post pictures taken with it people complain about the image. I had a lot go on the last year and it seemed I never got the chance to use it much but did use it once vertically to get a waterfall and I liked that image. This was the first image I took with it, I did not like it, I did not know how to do things in manual then and had it in AV mode and the ISO made it look almost daylight even though it was pitch black. I edited it for fun and came up with this, it was only my second major edit.

[ebiggs1]

More than a new lens, I would suggest you take a course in composition and post editing in Photoshop.

[Far-Out-Dude]

I have been trying to do both, Lr constantly crashes for some reason. My computer has much better specs than what are stated as preferred. I Do as many free courses as I can find.

[ebiggs1]

If LR is crashing you have a conflict somewhere on your system. I would first make sure your video driver is the latest available.  Other causes are outdated software, a slow performing hard drive, a corrupted LR catalog. Unauthorized third-party plugins.  Make sure Lightroom is the latest version. You might try optimizing your hard drive. And most of all try resetting Lightroom preferences.

[Far-Out-Dude]

First things I did was to make sure my video card was up to day, then Lr. I have uninstalled and reinstalled Lr several times so I do not think it is a corruption in the program, but I am not the greatest with this stuff I admit. My hard drives are all SSD's that are attached to the program and the HDD that are still spin drives at their time were fast, not sure now, I would think there are better now. I also did the resetting Lightroom preferences, more than once. It has been a problem since I first got it two years ago, I spend more time having to restart the computer because it locks up than I have spent being able to edit. No unauthorized third party plugins and it was crashing for a year before I ever even added any plugins. I do no know how to optimize a hard drive to be perfectly honest with you. I have used Belarc* Adviser I believe it is called to update all programs but it has been a while and I would have to have somebody come over and walk me through it, is has been a very long time. Thank you much for the advise. Here are the computer specs.

1). CPU Intel Core i7-5930K Haswell-E 6-Core 3.5GHz LGA 2011-v3 140W BX80648I75930K Desktop Processor -

2). Motherboard ASUS ROG RAMPAGE V EXTREME/U3.1 LGA 2011-v3 Intel X99 SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.1 Extended ATX Intel Motherboard

3). GPU XFX SPEEDSTER QICK319 RADEON RX 6750XT CORE Gaming Graphics Card with 12GB GDDR6 HDMI 3xDP, AMD RDNA 2 - RX-675XYJFDP

4). Case Cooler Master Cosmos II

5). Cpu Cooler Cooler Master Nepton 240M - CPU Water Cooling System, All-In-One Kit with 240mm Radiator and 2 Silencio Fans

6). 1 x WD Black 5TB Performance Desktop Hard Disk Drive - 7200 RPM SATA 6Gb/s 128MB Cache 3.5 Inch - WD5001FZWX HDD

7.) 1 x TB Western Digital Black Edition & 1 500 GB Western Digital Blue Edition

8). SSD 2 x SAMSUNG 840 EVO MZ-7TE250BW 2.5" 250GB SATA 6Gb/s 1x nm Samsung Toggle DDR 2.0 3-Bit MLC NAND Flash Memory (400Mbps)

9). RAM 32GB G.Skill Ripjaws DDR4 3000 (PC4-24000) Desktop Memory Model 4096 X 4

10). Case Fans Just what came with minus the top fan becaus of the water cooler

11). PSU Cooler Master V1200 - Fully Modular 1200W 80 PLUS Platinum PSU with Silent Fanless Mode Operation (6th Generation Skylake Compatible)

[ebiggs1]

Sometimes these things can be difficult to resolve for sure. But thousands, no millions of people run Lightroom and PS with no issue so you can too. You just need to find that problem. I run LR and PS and never see any problems. I have for years ever since there was LR and PS for than matter. I am a beta tester for Photoshop even the beta apps are mostly stable.

Your computer specs are way above my head so I have no idea if you have a good or fast machine at all. What is evident there is something there that doesn't get along well with LR. And I doubt it has anything to do with your hardware as long as the drivers are current.

"I do no know how to optimize a hard drive ..." I doubt that will help after seeing your system.

" I have uninstalled and reinstalled Lr several times  ..."   And you got on your Adobe account to make sure you got the most current version of LR? Your last resort may be to contact Adobe and explain the problem or enlist the service of a professional technician to check out your machine. Like said LR runs on millions of computer without issue. Yours has a problem and it is not LR.

[Far-Out-Dude]

" I have uninstalled and reinstalled Lr several times  ..."   And you got on your Adobe account to make sure you got the most current version of LR? Yes, I had made a thread there and they told me about signing out and in on both their webpage and the programs and they both show that everything is up to date.

Your last resort may be to contact Adobe and explain the problem or enlist the service of a professional technician to check out your machine. I have a friend that is a tech, he has been doing this stuff since before Tandy computers were a thing. He writes all kinds of programs and has done it for hospitals and businesses for the thirty years I have known him. He is one of those that can do anything if it interests him, the problem is I do not think he is interested as I have tried to get help from him before with the photography stuff and it did not seem to trip his trigger. I will have to get somebody to carry my computer down to the truck and into and out of and back up, I can't do it. I hope they do better than the last time I had it to them to recover pictures, they couldn't do anything. In their defense though they did not charge me as they could not help and I respect that.

[ebiggs1]

I can only repeat, " ... LR runs on millions of computer without issue." It runs on my 10 year old laptop that is an I5 with basic memory. Don't know your friend, he may be a great guy and even a smart guy and I don't want to diss your friend, but you need a real PC tech to check out your machine and/or call Adobe tech line. I gave you the simple first places to check and look at steps. Again keep this thought, " ... LR runs on millions of computer without issue."

[Far-Out-Dude]

He IS a real computer tech, honestly thought I made that clear, sorry if I did not. Got in touch with them last night, worked on it until after one. Best she could do was turn it back a few versions but it is working, for now.