Thanks for your interesting potted history, Brian. I am glad that all is
coming together successfully now, and that you have time to enjoy it. I should
have been really grumpy about the Government's getting rid of so many Forestry
workers ...
Here's just one more idea for using RAW files: use Picasa, a free application
from Google. It will catalogue your RAW files for you and do a bit of
"Fine-tuning", although not nearly as comprehensively as LightRoom or LightZone.
But the main idea is that you don't have to convert RAW files until you want to
use them; they sit as RAW files and take up less space than TIFF files
(normally). If you have something like LightRoom, you can manipulate or
post-process the files without doing anything to the original file, then output
it as you wish. I don't believe that your computer would have a difficulty
with the processing.
Chris
On 11 May 2010, at 10:48, <bj@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> <bj@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> Thanks to Chuck's guidance, I can now add terabytes of storage to my
> computer. All the
>
> advice I got told me that the motherboard would not recognise more than
> about 132
>
> gigabytes. In a simple hook-up test my computer man demonstrated it would
> recognise at
>
> least 500 GB. He also did a massive defragmentation using a program be
> bought; this
>
> has speeded up my machine hugely, but I'm not sure about it being fast
> enough to deal
>
> with RAW files.
> I have this idea in my head that a technology ( digital imaging - digital
> cameras )
>
> is/are a somewhat deficient process that just HAS to improve over time if
> it can't
>
> cope with highlights such as those generated from back-lit or strongly
> front-lit
>
> autumn leaves, and relies instead on third party inventions. But I also
> suspect that
>
> not enough digital photographers care enough to cause the camera companies
> to make
>
> that sort of improvement.
>
> Anyway, this is a long way of saying that there are other items in the
> spending queue
>
> ahead of a new computer. What I have, will have to do, for a while yet.
> Doing RAW
>
> files will probably have to wait a bit. And the labs that do the best
> printing here
>
> insist on TIFF files.
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