Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2012/08/12
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]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 Fine Art Photography Fort Wayne, Indiana 260-437-8990 http://www.chriscrawfordphoto.com My portfolio http://blog.chriscrawfordphoto.com My latest work! http://www.facebook.com/pages/Christopher-Crawford/48229272798 Become a fan on Facebook 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 >> > >_______________________________________________ >Leica Users Group. >See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information