RAW a pain ?

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Hi all.

Firstly, I'm a big fan of RAW - so the title may be a bit misleading! :)

I'm getting used to my new 5DII, but coming from the world of a 400D, the size of the new RAW images are H U G E.

I've not thrown any volume through Lightroom yet, but in your experiences, do large volumes (say 100+) RAW images choke the software - or can it cope?

Have you guys invested in meaty machines with GBs of memory?

Cheers.
 
I've gone from a 400D to a 5D and I can confirm it takes a lot longer to import! It all copes ok though, just set it going and then go and do something else for a while. Once they're in it seems to be ok, and my lappy ain't the meatist machine in the world.
HTH,
pip
 
Pippy_Neville said:
I've gone from a 400D to a 5D and I can confirm it takes a lot longer to import! It all copes ok though, just set it going and then go and do something else for a while. Once they're in it seems to be ok, and my lappy ain't the meatist machine in the world.
HTH,
pip
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Thanks Pip.
 
I imported 500+ images into lightroom from my 5dII the other night with no problems at all.
I'm using a laptop with 4Gig memory
 
kinda, I'm considering upgrading my lappy as it doesn't cope too well but only really for hardcore processing with photoshop, or when I am multitasking a lot with the tv running (all one machine)
 
FlyTVR said:
I've not thrown any volume through Lightroom yet, but in your experiences, do large volumes (say 100+) RAW images choke the software - or can it cope?
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No problem dealing with that, it just takes time to render the previews.

The two things that will slow it down are

Transfer time from card
Resources available for rendering previews (CPU here not RAM)

This is one of the reasons why people who need to deal with a lot of images very quickly introduce PhotoMechanic into their workflow as it speeds things up for the initial cull prior to importing those images that are to be kept into Lightroom.

PM uses the embedded jpeg for the preview, and doesn't render a new one making it quicker, but still constrained by your transfer speed from the card.
 
I've been running a 1Dslll for over 2 years now and the files are big. Look at opting to UDMA cards when using large card sizes.Firewire 800 can help reduce download times but only by about 20% compared to USB. Also try going for DNG files as this can reduce the storage by about 15-20%.

I regularly download 200+ IDs files and no problem. A faster machine will help render the standard previews though. One option I use is not to render the standard previews on the laptop. This speeds up preping the images for editing. You then need only render those images you keep. Images are then transferred to the desktop for storage and final editing.

I'd also look at storing images on external drives as you will fill your hard drive up quickly.
 
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