View single post by Robert

Posted: Mon Dec 24th, 2018 07:53

Joined:	Mon Apr 2nd, 2012
Location:	South Lakeland, UK
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I took about 35 exposures yesterday evening. This morning I ran them into Lightroom, I was very impressed how quickly Lr dealt with them, they are NEF's, between 44 and 50 Mb each, I have created HDR's of several of the short sets which I created trying to discover the exposure range of each slide, usually 3 exposures per slide, not proper bracketing but me guessing each end of the range with one in the middle. Lr created the HDR's quite quickly, I am very impressed how lively the handling of these enormous files is. It doesn't seem any slower that it is with D3 NEF files.

Black flowers in shade with bright orange centres in sunlight would be a challenge even now, let alone with chrome's

Maybe it's the payoff for building such a powerhouse MacPro in the first place.

Maybe with more images per stack it will slow it down but I haven't really noticed that with the D3 NEF's. What does slow it down is poor images and differences in framing, but it still manages to come up with a solution.

What I'm not so happy about is the HDR output is .dng and about 150Mb per image. Not sure what that is all about, it's still the same resolution and essentially the same image, I think it's a fixed image, in other words not reversible, so I don't quite see why it should be so large. Need to look into that urgently.

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Robert.