On Apr 7, 2006, at 5:16 AM, Aaron Reynolds wrote:
You asked why/when one should use RAW
Actually, no, I never did. I said that I wasn't shooting RAW,
someone asked me why, and then a bunch of people told me I was
wrong in my decision.
I still haven't seen the original post. I saw a post in which you
asked that question, otherwise I would not have responded. I'll have
to go hunt through the digests to locate the post I responded to.
I actually do want to know the answer to my question about your
speed claim -- how long would it take to process 800 RAW files?
It depends a lot on what machine you're talking about and how you've
set up the RAW conversion to operate. If you set it up to output
16bit, full rez files or larger, a great deal of time is spent simply
writing the data to disk. If you set it up to output JPEG format data
to web-rez sizing, it can move along very expediently. I've not timed
the task specifically, but I know I've done case of 200-300 RAW
files, set to output to a half-rez JPEG (1000x1500 pixels) 8bit sRGB
file, on an iMac G4 20" with 1.25Ghz processor and a fast disk, and
walked out of the room for dinner or something like that. The job is
done when I return to the room, hmm, about an hour later.
Godfrey
