One more question...

Why on earth are you loading all 1000 images into memory at once?

On Sun, 8 Jul 2007 20:50:22 -0400, "Andrew-S"
I-Still-Hate-Spammers@Sorry-I had-to-leave-for-bit.com wrote:

My Mac is running at 2 gigs of Ram (it's only a Macbook).

My PC has 4 gigs of ram

and my PC LapTop has 2 Gigs.


If my shoot runs a thousand images or more images I hate life on either the
Mac or the PC Laptop. My Pc Desktop just groans once and I have my thousand
or more images in JPG in about 10 minutes. If the images are in raw make
that a 1000 images in about 20 minutes.

Word of advise from someone who sells cameras and processes images in
batches of a 1000. Don't get too hung up on the power of Raw on the other
hand don't believe that a JPG can do everything. Each has their merits and
weaknesses; an intellegent balance of when to shoot one versus the other is
the best way.

Andrew



"john smith" wrote in message
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Thanks Andrew.
One of the things I have been told is that Lightroom is preferred over
Aperature because it integrates with Photoshop seamlessly, whereas
Aperature requires some fiddling to get it to work with Photoshop.
I do use Mac's and and played with Aperature a little but do not have any
experience with Lightroom. I am told they are very similar.

To the group:
How much RAM does it take to get RAW to load faster?
(All my RAW images are in the 8-11 MB file size.)


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