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Subject: [Leica] OT - those thinking of a 36MP camera.....
From: john at chiaroscuro.co.nz (John McMaster)
Date: Sun, 12 Aug 2012 23:07:26 +1200
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Might be the compression (14 bit) then, this is in LR4.1, may try some
uncompressed.....

john

-----Original Message-----

I have no problem on my Win7 machine with 16 GB RAM with uncompressed 14 bit
D800E files (75-80MB).
Cheers
Jayanand

On Sun, Aug 12, 2012 at 3:41 PM, Chris Crawford <
chris at chriscrawfordphoto.com> wrote:

> You've got your RAM maxed out, then. I wonder why D800 files are so 
> cumbersome when you find that 500mb Hasselblad scans aren't? That's weird.
> I haven't got a D800 to try it with, but my Canon 5DmkII files process 
> fast enough.
>
> --
> Chris Crawford
>
> On 8/12/12 3:51 AM, "John McMaster" <john at mcmaster.co.nz> wrote:
>
> >I have dealt with 500MB 'blad scans with no issue. For those who care 
> >I have 32GB RAM, SSD and RAIDed eSATA so no slouch, D800E files are 
> >much slower to process....
> >
> >How do you find them in the Windows space Jayanand?
> >
> >john
> >________________________________________
> >
> >
> >I have a Mac Pro with dual quad-core processors. Mine are 2.8ghz. I 
> >work with scanned film, which gives much larger files than a 36mp 
> >camera. 16bit RGB scan of a 35mm neg is 128mb and a 6x6 neg is 470mb. 
> >That's with no editing or layers, which make the files a lot bigger. My
machine is FAST.
> >I have not looked at it to see the % of CPU being used, but I know it 
> >runs filters and stuff extremely fast. Almost instantly on 35mm and 
> >in a few seconds on the giant medium format scans.
> >
> >My processors are not that much faster than yours, but I do have 12GB 
> >of RAM. I wonder if more RAM would help you, it did speed mine up 
> >quite a bit when I upped it from 4 to 12 GB.
> >
> >--
> >Chris Crawford
> >
> >On 8/12/12 3:04 AM, "John McMaster" <john at chiaroscuro.co.nz> wrote:
> >
> >>It is far slower to work on D800E (lossless compressed) 40MB files 
> >>than
> >>M9
> >>(uncompressed) 36MB files.
> >>
> >>I have a reasonably grunty machine so I went looking at what the 
> >>bottleneck is......
> >>
> >>Mid-2009 Mac Pro (2x 2.26 quad-core Intel 5520 CPU) was running at 
> >>over 1300% CPU (16 threads available) briefly while doing minor 
> >>changes, be aware of this limitation if thinking of upping your 
> >>camera MP ;-)
> >>
> >>john
> >>




Replies: Reply from lew1716 at gmail.com (Lew Schwartz) ([Leica] OT - those thinking of a 36MP camera.....)
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