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When you edit photos digitally, you have to think about the tools that you are going to use. I am not into gadgets and I do not go for the most expensive. I look at the functionality of my tools and want to pay a decent price. Sometimes I buy quality second hand. Computer programs For editing photos, I mainly use CorelPaint 2023SE, Luminar Neo, Neatimage and Lightzone. The fact that I ended up with CorelPaint has to do with my former work as a lecturer information science. I was able to get cheap educational licenses for Coreldraw. Many people swear by one or the other, just like there is a tribal war between Windows and Apple. But I do not participate in that; one is not better than the other. I have used CorelPaint 2018 for a long time and now use the 2023SE version because I was recently able to get a lifetime version for a reasonable price. With the 2023SE I can go on for years. Color space I have done extensive research into Adobe RGB, but for now I will stick with sRGB because the photos are then immediately ready for the screen. My monitor is well calibrated and the prints look exactly the same as on screen. Switching to Adobe RGB costs a lot of money for a new monitor and editing photos becomes more complicated. For printing I then have a bit more color space, but converting the images back to sRGB for the screen takes up more time.
Cameras For the cameras, I look at the price and always choose a large zoom range because I like to be able to do everything with one camera. I now own three cameras: Panasonic TZ200, Sony RX10 IV and sometimes I use my camera from 2009: Olympus E620 with 12-60 and 55-200 lens. This is the list of cameras I have ever owned.
	I started taking pictures in 1986 with a Practica and switched to Canon in 1995, and manly took slides. In 2004 I started with digital photography but soon switched to Panasonic because of its higher resolution and zoom range. In 2009 I switched to FourThirds because its zoom lenses are easier to handle. I bought the Lf1 as an additional camera and replaced it with the tz200 in 2021. From that moment on, that was my most used camera until I bought the RX10 in 2024. I have all the analogue photos from before 2004 digitised and I still use many of these images. The 5mb photos with the Nikon are also still very usable. After all, scaling up a photo is a piece of cake these days. I bought the Panasonic tz200 and the Sony because they have a large zoom range. Because of the small sensor, I edit the photos with Neatimage to filter out the noise. I deliberately don't buy high end cameras, what I have is much easier to use and suite me well. I also work exclusively in Jpeg, the advantage of which is that all distortions of the lens are already corrected.