juju1958 wrote:
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.
I have been playing with SPP 6.3. It is faster when the photo being edited is on an SSD drive. Not sure why, because I have more than enough RAM to handle the job. Overall, very much improved on my machine! Still not at the level of LR, but getting close. I have to say I am pleasantly surprised and instead of just using SPP as a raw to tiff converter, I will do more editing in SPP in the future.
galenapass wrote:
I have been playing with SPP 6.3. It is faster when the photo being edited is on an SSD drive. Not sure why, because I have more than enough RAM to handle the job. Overall, very much improved on my machine!
SPP 6 does not utilize more than 1.5GB of available RAM memory
SSDs do improve X3F file adjustments response time due to their faster file read/write speed vs HDD (about 4x faster). Here's a good illustrative SSD vs HDD guide: http://ocz.com/consumer/ssd-guide/ssd-vs-hdd
None the less, the 13/20 seconds time I posted before is ridiculously slow on a PC that handles raw video grading/editing with ease. Everything is relative, so 13 seconds to open a X3F file in SPP might be fast for some people.
Malina wrote:
What a detail! Foveon signature shot
it is indeed a joy to see on a big screen; I am really happy with this camera.
During the same outing I took a portrait of my groom (I took the DP with me to a wedding) as well of the bride. The image of the groom I really like, but the one of the bride revealed to much; for her an image with the D700 was more forgiving.
DP3M - 6.3@1/200 - Quadra Ranger with striplight - SEP2
Went for a quick trip to the San Joaquin Valley to look for orchards blooming, they were, but stopped by and shot some wildflowers. Enough rain and now heat to bring on the grasses and wildflowers.
DP2Q shots with new firmware and processed in SPP, I think the new firmware sure made a difference in the sky color, etc.
I have a question regarding B/W processing. Normally I use NIK for this and I love this program. With my DP3m, do I need to convert to monochro'me in SPP or can I just select auto colour mode in SPP and work on the TIFF in NIK?
I have done it both ways. My normal process is to make a decent color image with nothing blown if possible and save as a tiff then process in LR or PS and any plugins I want to use. For the image I posted above I did everything in SPP and some minor touches in LR, mostly a slight vignette. Toning and other maipulations i think is a bit more controlled in photoshop with plugins than doing it with SPP. I use SPP mostly to develop a "basic" image and then export it and edit for final appearance or monochrome conversion, etc. I like to be as flexible as possible.
galenapass wrote:
I have been playing with SPP 6.3. It is faster when the photo being edited is on an SSD drive. Not sure why, because I have more than enough RAM to handle the job. Overall, very much improved on my machine! Still not at the level of LR, but getting close. I have to say I am pleasantly surprised and instead of just using SPP as a raw to tiff converter, I will do more editing in SPP in the future.
Yes SSD is always going to have advantages, as does where the programs lie on a normal hard drive. Yes ram amounts has little bearing from my experience but CPU cores does. A decent i7 8 core 16 threads cpu and matching Ram sticks works a treat with SPP.
my third outing with the DP3M. I bought the camera for portraits, but I still am playing with it, as well as it's processing. Below two versions of many different shades and textures. In colour and in b/w:
. 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,
