Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2007/02/12

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Subject: [Leica] Recent Lightroom buyers...
From: abridge at gmail.com (Adam Bridge)
Date: Mon Feb 12 20:26:49 2007
References: <p06240810c1f6ce7fe077@131.142.8.12> <m2ps8en4z3.fsf@whitefish.local> <4cfa589b0702121855rf4901eck3342b77a9058f0c6@mail.gmail.com> <p0623093ac1f6de69b24f@10.1.16.144> <p06240811c1f6e77bbb73@131.142.8.12>

It's as much a factor of the graphics card in the case of Aperture as
it is the processor. Aperture makes heavy use of the GPU. The iMac's
GPU isn't as high-end as the more recent versions and so it's not able
to do as much.

I was incorrect in an earlier post about Aperture and DNG. Aperture
DOES read DNG files but it doesn't read LEICA DNGs except to extract
the jpeg information stored as a preview. Even using the Adobe DNG
conversion utility doesn't fix this.

I note that people are clambering for it on the Apple site so
hopefully there will be a change in an upcoming OS release - perhaps
10.4.9 as the most likely near-term candidate. Leopard would be the
worst-case I think.

Adam

On 2/12/07, Richard S. Taylor <r.s.taylor@comcast.net> wrote:
> Thanks all.  It obviously pays to read the fine print on the Adobe
> site.  Guess I'll wait until it's been out a few weeks and ask my
> question again.
>
> It blows my mind to think a 1.8 GHz machine might be too slow to run
> these apps, but it's beginning to look like that might be the case.
>
> >At 6:55 PM -0800 2/12/07, Adam Bridge wrote:
> >>But there are more recent versions of Lightroom floating around. They
> >>showed a version at MacWorld that was substantially quicker and had
> >>more features than Beta 3
> >
> >I have beta 4 from Oct 06. I think that might have been the last
> >one, although I wasn't at MacWorld this year.
> >
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>
> Dick
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