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ggreene wrote:
I've not found LR to be especially good at fast culling even with 1DX files. I tried PM and didn't much care for it's speed either. The best option I found for my trashcan Mac Pro was DPP and it's still not the greatest. I wish BBPro was available for the Mac. That is the fastest one I know of.
Would love to see Adobe optimize LR but so far the library module is a sloth.
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IMO Lightroom is OK for making final "second pass" selections (though I don't use it for that), but when it comes to quickly reviewing large numbers of photos out in the field and "first pass" culling of obviously bad files there is nothing slower. BreezeBrowser, FastRawViewer, PhotoMechanic and others are infinitely faster because they don't build databases, cache previews, etc. There's really no need for all of that fuss if you're just looking for bloopers or just want to see what you got after a day of shooting in a remote location. If you've driven back to a motel room after sunset or worse are staying in a tent, the last thing you want to do is wait endlessly for LR.
Note that BreezeBrowser does not yet support 5DS/5DSR RAW file conversion because Canon has not released an SDK that supports these cameras. BB does show full resolution JPEG previews that are more than good enough to show what worked or didn't. If you have a thousand 5DSR photos to preview you can begin looking at them literally in seconds. I never used BB for final RAW conversion anyway, but because it uses Canon's SDK the colors and everything else are the same as Canon DPP but with a far better and more logical user interface. I haven't tried FRV (yet) but it looks like true winner and does support 5DS/R files.
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