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Subject: [Leica] OT - those thinking of a 36MP camera.....
From: rgacpa at gmail.com (Robert Adler)
Date: Sun, 12 Aug 2012 19:21:33 -0700
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Somewhat on topic, has anyone tried an SSD drive as a scratch drive for CS
to improve performance?
Thanks,
Bob

On Sun, Aug 12, 2012 at 6:54 PM, John McMaster <john at mcmaster.co.nz> 
wrote:

> True, but I have not heard of any complaints with a compressed 18MP M9
> image
>
> john
> ________________________________________
>
>
> Every io cycle on a compressed file has to go through another layer of
> software to handle the decompression.
>
> On Sun, Aug 12, 2012 at 7:07 AM, John McMaster <john at chiaroscuro.co.nz>
> wrote:
> > 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
> >> >>
>
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Bob Adler
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