[Leica] OT - those thinking of a 36MP camera.....

[john at mcmaster.co.nz (John McMaster)]

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
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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
>