GKPE 7 - And Still Going! Still Friendly and Still The BEST!

Mediation wrote in post #10593355
Cheers. I got 22.93 seconds.

Is that good?

Its not bad. It does prove that the AMD chips are some way behind the Intels though.
My 3 year old Q6600 scores around 26sec, and a new i7 920 scores around 18 sec.

Of course it's more than enough for most photo editing, especially as your not working with a super high mega pixel camera.

lol yeah, I love having the ability to load up photos and edit right away on the fly. Saves me a lot of time.

Thing is the six core when using either more apps or when apps finally become heavily threaded would easily beat an i5 or i7 however if the app is only using 1-4 cores it is a a loss as its slower per core.

So for encoding etc its a no brainer as the two extra cores more than make up for the slower per core performance loss (at roughly the same price).

Ive tried DPP on a 8 core 16 thread machine and it just keeps threading which is fantastic, you can get some really good RAW processing numbers out of it by loading up a few jobs and setting all 16 cores to work.

So for now I personally prefer i5 or i7 but it won't be long before the six cores would easily beat the i5 and i7 once apps catch up (provided you aren't going to upgrade in 6-12 months again).

A couple from my recent trip to Vanuatu...

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Nice photos David, I can't wait to get to Fiji in 6-7 weeks I'll have to make sure I have a 16-35 by then, fairly sure i'm going to get the 16-35 F4 VR over the 14-24 F2.8.

Nooooooooo 14-24 is just loverly, then again the 16-35 is far more useful but 14 is just nom nom nom!

tim wrote in post #10597955
Nice photos David, I can't wait to get to Fiji in 6-7 weeks I'll have to make sure I have a 16-35 by then, fairly sure i'm going to get the 16-35 F4 VR over the 14-24 F2.8.

14-24 is meant to be the BEST UWA lens out.

weka2000 wrote in post #10598012
14-24 is meant to be the BEST UWA lens out.

Tim needs stabilising, remember?

I know the 14-24 is meant to be an amazing wide angle zoom, and at 16mm the 16-35 has quite a bit of distortion. I just feel like I would rather save about $750, and F4 VR makes up for the one stop loss. Also the 14-24 has a huge round element, and I tend to damage them working in a rush. 14mm is also reaaaaaly wide, for how I use it (in dark churches, rarely) the people on the edges would be hugely distorted because of perspective.

As a bonus the 16-35 would also act as a backup lens in case the 24-70 goes down, which means I can skip the 50 F1.4 for now. 70mm F2.8 on full frame is a small enough dof for me for now, but I want the 50mm as backup at some point. I'm spending about $20K on gear, give or take a couple of grand, and i'd be quite happy to save a little now and add it later in the year.

momentz wrote in post #10598058
Tim needs stabilising, remember?

So do my lenses

Potisdad wrote in post #10597869
A couple from my recent trip to Vanuatu...

Nice! So was Vanuatu good? We nearly went there but opted for Samoa. Is there much to do? Many places to eat out etc? We are starting to talk up another holiday so might be Vanuatu, although Port Douglas has also been mentioned. Hehe, getting excited just thinking about it

Well got my camera out today the new magere bridge had a open day. Got there as the gates closed 1.30pm

Sancho wrote in post #10592342
What lens was it Peter? Might be worth selling it to someone who can fix these things (or thinks they can) and going new?

24-70 so I don't think that option will work.

tim wrote in post #10592663
Do you know anyone in CPS? It might be cheaper to send it to Toshio in the US than to have it done locally.

Yes I do, but I am mainly pissed off that I sent my camera in for a focus problem, and they didn't fix it but charged me €200. Then when they decide it was the lens and this will cost me €350, they aren't prepared to reduce the cost because of the camera.

I calculated I have spent €1350 on repairs over the last 3 years!!!

€600 for camera & lens (350D & 17-85) after my brother dropped it.
Camera was wrongly adjusted needed to be re done (free)

€200 for same lens re repair as it stopped working 2nd time I used it after original repair. As It was over a year later I had to pay.

€200 for camera focus problem (40D) Not fixed.
€350 now for lens. (24-70)

weka2000 wrote in post #10598438
Well got my camera out today the new magere bridge had a open day. Got there as the gates closed 1.30pm

Yeah i've spent loads on calibration and repairs, though to be fair I do occasionally drop cameras. I think going via CPS will be a better idea, or even better send them to Toshio - he's meant to be the best in the world at Canon camera calibration, and charges reasonably.

Good stuff Tony.

The bulging design of the 14-24mm does seem dodgy, could easily scratch that. But I guess that is the risk you gotta take with photography. The 14mm is also a supreme lens. Close in price to the 16-35mm. Sometimes I feel that if a zoom has such a limited focal length you might as well get a prime lens

weka2000 wrote in post #10598438
Well got my camera out today the new magere bridge had a open day. Got there as the gates closed 1.30pm

Me too! but we were there about 11am. You could have gone home and got your bike & rode across. Bikes from 1:30 to 2:00pm

Poor pano