Walked through my village today, it was cold and my battery died half way.
Managed to get this shot, focused on the curtain (no moire). Edited in SEP2.
DP2S,despite it is the 5mp sensor, I like what it does with b/w.
Demolition work has begun on the bridge I posted earlier. Went and checked it out with the little guy who's obsessed with big machines. Got some real nice Foveon vibes off this shot (DP2M). Still getting used to the sliiiiightly slow write times, but so worth it!
ouch... today I received my DP3M... I am truly amazed. Though my computer can hardly handle the files, the images are great. Thank you all for keeping this thread alive and opening my eyes.
OlafSiebert wrote:
ouch... today I received my DP3M... I am truly amazed. Though my computer can hardly handle the files, the images are great. Thank you all for keeping this thread alive and opening my eyes.
Excellent image.
Getting the three Merrill cameras prompted me to build my own computer which has been the best choice computer wise I've made. Very simple to achieve and although using fitting only 16mb of a possible 64mb, with a decent 6core cpu and most vitally a SSD it made using Sigma photo pro a joy to use.
A really fast PC/MAC won't make a SPP experience a joy if you used to real time response on demanding applications handling 1GB+ files with ease. While SPP v6.0+ did improve the response time to slider adjustments & file opening/saving, it's still the slowest graphic editing application I have ever used. If the camera could write to X3F files a Noise Reduction setting OFF, all I'd be doing in SPP is Batch save to TIFF 16-bit and get out of SPP to to work with the files on a faster application.
Malina wrote:
A really fast PC/MAC won't make a SPP experience a joy if you used to real time response on demanding applications handling 1GB+ files with ease. While SPP v6.0+ did improve the response time to slider adjustments & file opening/saving, it's still the slowest graphic editing application I have ever used. If the camera could write to X3F files a Noise Reduction setting OFF, all I'd be doing in SPP is Batch save to TIFF 16-bit and get out of SPP to to work with the files on a faster application.
Sorry too hear your experience with SPP is such a dower one Milina.
Not sure what a fast computer is, do they run to the shops . Compatibility and processing power is a term I'd be more familiar with. I can assure you not to give up, a pc can be built so SPP is a joy too use while working on raw files in real time. As productive as LR and Cs6. Although I recognise, have sympathies and have great respect for your negative experience of SPP and a few years ago I had that very same experience, but instead of moaning about it as many did at the time, I decided to resolve the issues. I have done so . Respect that our own issues are not everyone's and learning of others knowledge is a good route to improving ones own, even in the case of the SPP software
All the best.
Getting the three Merrill cameras prompted me to build my own computer which has been the best choice computer wise I've made. Very simple to achieve and although using fitting only 16mb of a possible 64mb, with a decent 6core cpu and most vitally a SSD it made using Sigma photo pro a joy to use.
I have a similar build (8 core AMD 4.2 ghz, SSD drives and 32 GB RAM).....will have to try the Sigma software on it (just built it recently). On the Mac side of things, I really enjoy using Iridient to process Merrill files. Iridient is great for Fuji files as well.
juju1958 wrote:
Not sure what a fast computer is, do they run to the shops
Win 7 64-bit OS, [email protected], 16GB RAM, SSD. Overall "Window Experience Index" of 7.4 is fast enough for everything, but SPP 6.
X3F single file opening takes 13 seconds, "Switch Display Mode" to full resolution takes ~20 seconds, while slider adjustments take at least a second to calculate. The problem is not in my system configuration as other more demanding apps run seamlessly.
I always find construction sites interesting, this is Metropolis a huge 4-tower project going up in downtown LA with a colorful sky at dusk.
DP0 Quattro, mini tripod (shot both raw and jpeg, this is the jpeg, first Sigma that gets color balance right in camera, not that I mind post processing, but the Quattro is much better in this respect)
Metropolis construction site (Greenland) Los Angeles
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. Compatibility and processing power is a term I'd be more familiar with. I can assure you not to give up, a pc can be built so SPP is a joy too use while working on raw files in real time. As productive as LR and Cs6. Although I recognise, have sympathies and have great respect for your negative experience of SPP and a few years ago I had that very same experience, but instead of moaning about it as many did at the time, I decided to resolve the issues. I have done so . Respect that our own issues are not everyone's and learning of others knowledge is a good route to improving ones own, even in the case of the SPP software 