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EOS Bodies / Re: New crop bodies coming!

« on: November 08, 2012, 05:45:12 AM »

yes its called your brain.

Anyway, brilliantly cutting and insightful joke for a new thread

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Software & Accessories / Re: Lightroom 4.2 update

« on: October 05, 2012, 07:17:23 AM »

Once I import photos from my harddrive into LR, before I go into the Develop module, I wait for all the photos to "load", by waiting for the 3 tiny dots to disappear from each photo, indicating the photo is loaded.  The problem is, only the photos that are displayed on the screen actually "load", so I then have to scroll down to have the next line(s) of photos to show on the screen before they actually load.

You don't have to do this.  It sounds like you have LR set to build "minimal" previews on import.  Then it has to work hard to load them later.  Instead, set LR to build "1:1" or "standard" previews on import.  This way the import process takes longer, but the previews are all built when it's done.  This setting (called "Render Previews") is in the top right of the Import screen. 

Also, I've heard it's good to give LR a big cache for Camera Raw Settings.  This is done in LR Preferences, under File Handling.

+1

Thanks, increasing the cache provided a big boost in performance when "developing".  This might allow me to make it through a few more months with my 4 year old laptop.

yes the default cache limit seems strangely small for medium to heavy work, I increased the cache size, located on a separate disk to the photo file disk, but I'm limited somewhat by capacity limits on my SSD so I will be looking to increase in future for more performance gains.

I also have put my lightroom catalogue onto my SSD (however because the catalogue needs to be in same folder as the huge preview file folders (surely an oversight) I have had to create a virtual link from my SSD to the physical location of the preview files on my dedicated photo HDD to save space on my SSD. Also must make backup of catalogue regularly as SSD is not backed up.


http://morethanwords.be/blog/en/getting-the-most-out-of-your-solid-state-drive-in-lightroom/

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Software & Accessories / Re: Lightroom 4.2 update

« on: October 05, 2012, 07:02:32 AM »

So last night I upgraded to LR4.2 and as before the issue is in the develop module, everytime I attempt to use a brush, the lagging is driving me nuts.  It's gotten worse with the upgrade, not sure if I'm missing something... But I'm tempted to go back to 4.0!

That is strange, 4.2 is much faster for me, and lagging of the brush for 5D MK II or three was not a issue.  It was for D800, but is now better.
I have my catalog on a SSD, and my files on a separate internal HDD.  Its a huge catalog, and I only optimize occasionally due to the long time it takes.

I thought so too.  I run my software on a SSD and all my files are on 3 other internal drives, running 16GB ram with an i7 quad core processor.  So I know it's not PC performance, everything else in LR runs very fast except the develop module.

what size previews do you render on import? Develop module needs 1:1 preview renders to display on screen. So if you render smaller previews on import then every time you launch a photo in the develop module you will see a lag. Lags during developing sounds like maybe cache size issue or maybe PC writing reading information to from disk during the developing action?

Some questions to ask:

* What is CPU and Physical Memory utilisation when doing the developing?
* Where is location of and what size is the OS and Lightroom caches?

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Software & Accessories / Re: Lightroom 4.2 update

« on: October 05, 2012, 06:53:27 AM »

  I don't know why some people have this trouble and others don't.

adobe has no clue either... otherwise this would be long fixed.

i have no problems myself but i have seen it on a friends system.
similiar specs as my system but LR 4.x runs way slower.

Do you guys access files via network?  the LR on my server is very fast, but it's slow on my another desktop because of the network drive.
How about the LR speed on MAC?

nope my friend has his catalog on 256GB samsung 830 SSD.
and the images are on a fast local seagate HDD.

there is no contention with the local HDD? I keep my photo files on a separate disk to avoid problems when multitasking eg streaming music while working on lightroom, especially when say running an export it used to impact my Lightroom performance before I moved the photos to a dedicated disk.

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Software & Accessories / Re: Lightroom 4.2 update

« on: October 03, 2012, 11:08:52 AM »

the flickr publish authentication issue is also fixed in this release

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EOS Bodies - For Stills / Re: Who upgraded from 5d mk2 to mk3 ?

« on: September 25, 2012, 07:18:03 AM »

I did as I was never that bowled over by the MKII (I bought it on a whim when shopping for a new lens for a travel shoot a year and half before the MKIII was released ), I found the movie mode unintuitive so never used it.

I really enjoyed my MK I and had it for 5 years, the MKIII feels like the true successor to the MKI and I therefore hope to have that for a similar time period.

Ive also felt comfortable dabbling in a few movie mode shots with the MKIII while out and about taking photos.

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EOS Bodies - For Stills / Re: For those whose paid full price on 5d III, how do you feel about the price drop?

« on: September 19, 2012, 12:22:54 PM »

I have tried to point this out to people in this thread several times (as have others).  It's funny how that goes and rather telling ---
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right so what do you say of the widespread more than 25% drop in retail price within 5 months in the UK then?

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EOS Bodies - For Stills / Re: For those whose paid full price on 5d III, how do you feel about the price drop?

« on: September 19, 2012, 11:58:37 AM »

Cameras aren't losers, they're just objects...

Tell that to my camera. I leave it at home and tell it to look for work, go out and get a job. When I get home it's still sitting in the same place, didn't even move one bit. I suspect that some of my booze is missing but it just sits there and does nothing when I question it.

sure, funny take on hysterics when there isn't any, but yeah you are ignoring a more than a 25% drop  in the retail price within 5 months in the UK as shown by a respected high street retailer that tends toward the higher end of pricing not some internet cowboy outfit or ebay.

Such a sudden drop is not a normal way to handle a high end product and shows problems with the original price point and Canon will not be able to mis-position a new release too often in future with out getting a bad name for itself.

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EOS Bodies - For Stills / Re: For those whose paid full price on 5d III, how do you feel about the price drop?

« on: September 19, 2012, 10:05:58 AM »

sure but a nearly a third off a price drop in 5 months? That is quite a big repositioning in my view.

There is nothing I can do about it and I have taken lots of photos with my MK III and enjoyed it more than the MK II (although its now in repairs for 4 weeks due to the joystick falling off, something that Ive never had to do with a Canon camera in 25 years)...

Just that Canon wont be able to get away with doing it too often!

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EOS Bodies - For Stills / Re: For those whose paid full price on 5d III, how do you feel about the price drop?

« on: September 19, 2012, 09:22:23 AM »

I'm seeing the well known UK high street shop that I bought mine from at full price of £3500 in April now advertising online discount price of £2671.99 in September (not sure what instore price is but they are a respected high street retailer and certainly not dodgy), I'm seeing other retailers with even cheaper prices.

My gut feeling is that this is a sudden big drop and indicates panic. I'm not one to care about price drops over long periods of time or a larger drop mid-life when new products start to ramp up (I had my EOS 5D for 5 years and bought close to the release date) but I now feel aggrieved at having jumped at the MKIII (I was about to go travelling and that pushed me) and I am still paying the monthly payments and I don't earn money from my camera so that may provide a different view point as a non-pro customer.

Once bitten twice shy as they say

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EOS Bodies / Re: Joystick issue 5d mk iii

« on: August 03, 2012, 10:44:32 AM »

mine fell off last week, I guess my body was one of the first batch

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Lenses / Re: 40mm Pancake Malfunctioning?

« on: July 21, 2012, 09:52:59 AM »

It has happened to me twice, both times in low light conditions so i started thinking it couldn't focus in low light and was a bit disappointed but the mount removing worked. It was also after some wet conditions outside so was thinking that maybe a reason.

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EOS Bodies / Re: Should/can Canon keep making its own sensors?

« on: July 17, 2012, 01:00:03 PM »

I wonder if Canon will reach a kind of "Apple Moment", like when Apple quit spending its R&D money trying to beat Intel on a component (CPU's) and started just using Intel chips like everyone else.

When did Apple have that "Apple Moment"?  Before they bought CPUs from Intel, they bought them from IBM (the PowerPC series), and before that, they bought CPUs from Motorola (the 68xxx series).

I think you will find Apples "moment" was enabled by the loose licensing and large manufacturing possibilities of the ARM processor family! But I digress.

There are certainly tales of caution in the home computer and entertainment world about throwing money at expensive hardware R&D but then the sale margins were always really tight and it was always quite a niche market driven by entire chipset functionality.

Surely sensor design is relatively easy for a camera company with such a big market to focus on?

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Lenses / Re: Canon EF 40mm f/2.8 Pancake

« on: July 09, 2012, 10:00:17 AM »

I've had mine lock up on me twice now, just wont respond to focus requests from camera, not seen it happen on any other lens. Both times this has happened in dusk/evening conditions and at first I thought it might be the low light but focus still failed even if pointing at lights and high contrast areas. In both cases only a remount of the lens fixed the issue.

Looking back Im wondering if the lens got wet but the weather wasn't so bad as to make me concerned at the time.

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Lenses / Re: 16-35 MKII USM L > Lens Alignment tool with MA..which looks better?

« on: June 30, 2012, 07:22:46 AM »

I ended up feeling happy only after the focal route because it gave an automated independently verified scientific approach. Instead of spending too long worrying about my interpretation of various visual cues and just ending up with a headache!

Note the 5D MKIII profile on focal is still semi-auto