Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2012/08/12
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Thanks Jayanand. Nothing beats hands on experience! Best, Bob Bob Adler On Aug 12, 2012, at 10:00 PM, Jayanand Govindaraj <jayanand at gmail.com> wrote: > I have separate SSD drives both for the operating system and for the CS > Scratch Disk. Highly recommended for a fast boot time, as well as dealing > with large files. > Cheers > Jayanand > > On Mon, Aug 13, 2012 at 7:51 AM, Robert Adler <rgacpa at gmail.com> wrote: > >> 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 >>>>>>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Leica Users Group. >>> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >>> >> >> >> >> -- >> Bob Adler >> http://www.rgaphoto.com >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >> > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information