Quick question about resolution

I normally don't do weddings so this might be a dumb question but thought i would ask anyways. I shot my brothers wedding for him last weekend with my 5D IV set to full resolution and around 800 images or so. Lightroom CC was slow to say the least. I did a little bit of research on the net and some of the videos or pages I was researching were saying that they shot in Small Raw on a 5D II (I believe it was SLR Lounge but I could be wrong).

Anyways, are you wedding photographers shooting in full sized raw with your cameras? I'm just curious as to what the pros are doing. I didn't even think to set my camera up to mRAW which would have saved a considerable amount of time editing I bet.

Thanks.

Also, I'm getting ready to switch from HDD to SSD this weekend, will it make much difference.

Thanks

rjharris wrote in post #18389717
Also, I'm getting ready to switch from HDD to SSD this weekend, will it make much difference.

It will speed up the boot process, but I doubt it will make a significant difference for LR. This is based on my own experience moving to an SSD, plus comments made by others in recent threads here on POTN. Your mileage may vary, so do let us know.

Take a look at your manual - pg 171.

Thanks. I've read the manual, (or at least parts of it). I was just wondering if most shot in full resolution during a wedding or if they went down a notch since they are taking so many photographs.

I don't own a 5D IV but if I did. I would use it on FULL RAW always.

Full raw. Higher the better.

Thanks guys, that was what I was thinking, I had just seen some shooting smaller files but kind of thought that the client would be getting short changed. Like I said, I don't do weddings this was just me shooting my brothers wedding for him.

Full RAW all the way. AdobeRGB colour space.

LR has become a bit of a resource hog over the years. I noticed it when I ran a beta/demo of version 4. Regardless, I'd look into optimising LR rather than throw away data.

http://www.lightroomze​n.com …om-for-better-performance

(I don't do weddings either.)

Setting the largest resolution the camera can muster affords the most latitude in post processing and final output, from noise reduction to cropping needs. You can shoot medium jpg but at least shoot full raw.

If you have Lightroom set to create full size previews on import, it will slow down import but speed up working.

I do. Big files just take awhile. Lightroom has never been lightning fast in my opinion.

There's a compression that takes place for MRaw and SRaw. I don't remember if it was posted here or not but you lose dynamic range too, IIRC. I shoot full raw all the way or small JPG if its just a snapshot of an informational sign at a tourist spot ors omething. Just don't forget to switch it back!

Silver-Halide wrote in post #18404416
There's a compression that takes place for MRaw and SRaw. I don't remember if it was posted here or not but you lose dynamic range too, IIRC. I shoot full raw all the way or small JPG if its just a snapshot of an informational sign at a tourist spot ors omething. Just don't forget to switch it back!

I'm not sure the word compression has meaning for a raw file. All raw files contain "image data exactly as captured on the sensor."

I would never use the smaller RAWs, but I don't think there is any image quality loss, other than resolution, if you do.

Archibald wrote in post #18389726
It will speed up the boot process, but I doubt it will make a significant difference for LR. This is based on my own experience moving to an SSD, plus comments made by others in recent threads here on POTN. Your mileage may vary, so do let us know.

Agreed: LR is CPU-bound. That includes generating previews and rendering output jpgs. Applying some operations can be sped up with the appropriate GPU, but that didn't work too well when I tried it.

TeamSpeed wrote in post #18389901
Setting the largest resolution the camera can muster affords the most latitude in post processing and final output, from noise reduction to cropping needs. You can shoot medium jpg but at least shoot full raw.

Yep. I figure I only get one chance to capture an image so I want all the data possible. Disk space and to some degree CPU power is cheap.