Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/05/19
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Bob if the camera manufacturers weren't so fond of inventing new proprietary Raw formats, Adobe wouldn't have to keep reverse engineering and decoding their new formats to provide the upgrades free for owners of Ps. I think they currently support more than 170 Raw formats. Madness! That's why we have a DNG format. Thank you Leica and Hasselblad and Pentax for using it. Don't blame Adobe for Nikon and Canon's policies! On hardware any computer that you were happy with for CS3 will work the same for CS4. They have just added openGL support for the smooth new scrolling, zooming, flick panning teatures. Any modest half way modern video card will work. You can see a list of tested ones in Ps support. In fact you don't want a card with the most on board memory (unless you play games) because you'll have less RAM available to Ps when the video memory is mapped to RAM. Remember that if you use LR2 rather than ACR you will have the same Raw upgrades available. 2009/5/20 Robert D. Baron <rbaron at concentric.net> > Thanks, all, it sounds like the upgrade may turn out to be worth it. > It does disturb me that I need to spend $200 on this upgrade so I can > work on the latest raw files (Canon G10 and so forth) and then I'll > probably need to upgrade my computer as well. > > Does it ever stop? No, of course not. > > In the meantime I'll look for the best price. Chris, I'm not a member > of PPA....I was a member of NAPP but I let it expire. I know they > offer a discount but I can't remember how much. I'll give them a call > tomorrow and maybe they'll tell me as an enticement to re-up. > > --Bob > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > -- Cheers Geoff 'Life's not B&W, except at both ends' http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/gh/ http://www.pbase.com/hoppyman