60D users, friends and their random OT B.S. (II)

NewCreation wrote in post #16224024
How does one do that?

1. Choose Lightroom > Preferences (Mac OS) or Edit > Preferences (Windows).
   
   
   
   
2. Click the File Handling tab.
   
   
   
   
3. In the Camera Raw Cache Settings area, experiment with a Maximum Size of 10.0 GB or more.
   
   
   

toolman21 wrote in post #16224335

1. Choose Lightroom > Preferences (Mac OS) or Edit > Preferences (Windows).
   
   
   
   
2. Click the File Handling tab.
   
   
   
   
3. In the Camera Raw Cache Settings area, experiment with a Maximum Size of 10.0 GB or more.
   
   
   

From the Adobe page that has a few more hints like how long to keep cache etc:
http://helpx.adobe.com …erformance-lightroom.html

I set mine at 20Gb and it helped some.

A SSD would be very nice though. One day I suppose.

Thank you. And yes a SSD would be nice...there's a lot of things that would be nice.

Couple of random LR questions.

On import of my raw files, I kinda expected all the sliders to be at zero. What is determining where the sliders land on import as they are different for different shots?

On export...do these folders not show up in the library?

babel_fish wrote in post #16221888
Hahahah

he, it's true. When I swapped the cam I had to drop the engine through the bottom of the car. I had it out and decided I better do everything else I might want to do to it at the same time. So I did the headers and several other little things at that time. Took me nearly 30 hours to swap the cam. I put in new cams on my buddies Mustang last year and it took me an hour. I suppose that's one advantage of an OHC.

Hi guys. Probably a stupid question, but I frequently see reference to "superior IQ" . What does that mean? I gather from context it has something to do with the lens ability. Is it how quick the lens reaches a decision on ISO, shutter speed and Fstop?

jamaeolus wrote in post #16224585
Hi guys. Probably a stupid question, but I frequently see reference to "superior IQ" . What does that mean? I gather from context it has something to do with the lens ability. Is it how quick the lens reaches a decision on ISO, shutter speed and Fstop?

I could be all wet, but I understand it to mean "Image quality".

Anyone use a SD to CF adapter in their DSLR? Thinking of getting one for my 40D as I have a lot of SD cards. Curious if there's a speed or other disadvantage.

tia
Mike

NewCreation wrote in post #16224597
I could be all wet, but I understand it to mean "Image quality".

Yes, that is it.

MikeDee wrote in post #16224635
Anyone use a SD to CF adapter in their DSLR? Thinking of getting one for my 40D as I have a lot of SD cards. Curious if there's a speed or other disadvantage.

tia
Mike

I would imagine it would hurt the transfer rate a bit but nothing serious. I never heard of anyone also doing this either.

jamaeolus wrote in post #16224585
Hi guys. Probably a stupid question, but I frequently see reference to "superior IQ" . What does that mean? I gather from context it has something to do with the lens ability. Is it how quick the lens reaches a decision on ISO, shutter speed and Fstop?

If I possessed a "superior IQ" I could have answered this question correctly.

jamaeolus wrote in post #16224585
Hi guys. Probably a stupid question, but I frequently see reference to "superior IQ" . What does that mean? I gather from context it has something to do with the lens ability. Is it how quick the lens reaches a decision on ISO, shutter speed and Fstop?

Everyone above is correct, all about image quality.

Think of it as everything you could score a lens for, sharpness, contrast, etc all combined into one average score.

That is my take on it anyway.

another laptop question. I am looking at 2 different Sager laptops, one comes with a ips screen and the other a 95% ntsc screen. Other than the fact that the one with the Ips screen has a slower graffix card (but I am sure still fast enough for editing and anything else I might want to do), and the non ips one can hold more ram (the ips one can hold the 16 gigs that I wanted), which do you guys think would be better?

http://www.sagernotebo​ok.com …ustomed&model_n​ame=NP6652

http://www.sagernotebo​ok.com …ustomed&model_n​ame=NP7352

At $1300 you are in MacBook Pro with Retina display price point... Something to think about if you are editing on the laptop.

babel_fish wrote in post #16225064
At $1300 you are in MacBook Pro with Retina display price point... Something to think about if you are editing on the laptop.

the only ones I found at that price point were 13 inch, and even then they were more than 1300. I would really like at least a 15 inch screen (after buying this it will be a while before i can afford a good 24 or so inch 16 by 10 monitor). And I am really not good with change lol and have never used the mac os.

NewCreation wrote in post #16224460
Couple of random LR questions.

On import of my raw files, I kinda expected all the sliders to be at zero. What is determining where the sliders land on import as they are different for different shots?

On export...do these folders not show up in the library?

Hi Brenda - regarding sliders not at -zero- after import, two things come to mind. One is that in the 'Details' Panel of the Develop Module - sharpening and NR do have a few default levels to begin with. I can't readily remember any other items where Lr sets a default.

The other thing is - perhaps you have an import preset enabled... that is what I do.

To see if there was an import preset - click on an image in the Library - go into the develop module - and on the left side scroll down to the History and look at the first item in the History - which should be 'Import'. If there are words following the word "Import" - it is an import preset.