Huss, great film colors. For a lens that has received a tiny amount of mention, you and Regina are demonstrating what a terrific performer the 45 AI-P is.
3rd try the charm?
Thank you Leighton for the wonderful compliment. concerning ram - here are my thoughts
Though Apple likes to call their new hardware SOC (System On a Chip) it actually is a "System on a package". The memory is a seperate part of a pre-configured package, is not "unified", is on a fast BUS, and can not be changed. You have to order the size configuration you want. That aside, I doubt it is the bottle-neck. Something I have noticed is that the longer Lr runs on mac - the more memory it takes. That is a memory leak by either the OS memory handling, or Adobe's code.
I did what Kevin suggested, and I got a warning notification that disabling the "auto" gpu usage would have negative performance results. It did. However, it managed to import a 14k photo folder without crashing. I know of two bottle-necks. I'm doing this through wifi, and a cat5 cable would be way faster. The other potential factor is I am letting face recognition run concurrently with the imports. I have machines with 64gb, 32gb. 16gb, and 8gb of RAM. Almost always. when you go beyond 16gb - scheduling actually slows things down.
I'm still chuffed about the base mini. It is more computer than 99% of the world needs. Certainly more than any photographer needs. Of course, there are always people that have to have the biggest, fastest, newest thing out there.
leighton w wrote:
The first one is outstanding Jim. You were spot on with the composition.
BTW, I think the hang up in your file transfer is probably the 8gb ram instead of anything with LR, but I'm no expert.
James Markus wrote:
Though Apple likes to call their new hardware SOC (System On a Chip) it actually is a "System on a package". The memory is a seperate part of a pre-configured package, is not "unified", is on a fast BUS, and can not be changed. You have to order the size configuration you want. That aside, I doubt it is the bottle-neck. Something I have noticed is that the longer Lr runs on mac - the more memory it takes. That is a memory leak by either the OS memory handling, or Adobe's code.
I did what Kevin suggested, and I got a warning notification that disabling the "auto" gpu usage would have negative performance results. It did. However, it managed to import a 14k photo folder without crashing. I know of two bottle-necks. I'm doing this through wifi, and a cat5 cable would be way faster. The other potential factor is I am letting face recognition run concurrently with the imports. I have machines with 64gb, 32gb. 16gb, and 8gb of RAM. Almost always. when you go beyond 16gb - scheduling actually slows things down.
I'm still chuffed about the base mini. It is more computer than 99% of the world needs. Certainly more than any photographer needs. Of course, there are always people that have to have the biggest, fastest, newest thing out there.
I'm not sure if this a semantics issue, but RAM and Unified memory are essentially the same thing. Unified memory is just RAM built into the CPU chip for Apple silicon Macs. Its "unified" with the CPU.
Yesterday, my less than two year old grandson didn't get the snack he wanted. He sat down at our kitchen computer - grabbed the mouse - and tattled on me to his mother (he thought it was a phone).
It's blurry, but a memory now. D850 with the Nikon 24mm f2.8 air & the TC-16a
ocean2059 wrote:
Morning walk in Key Bridge Georgetown, Washington, DC (with W-Nikkor-C 3.5cm f/2,5 lens)
Beautiful set Steve.
A question for you please. When I was a teen growing up in NOVA, we used to ride bikes on the C&O Canal. There was a place to park underneath the bridge next to a place that rented boats. Do you know if that is still there?
Jay,
Yes, and it did negatively effect importing photos in Lr, but Ps has it's own settings, and that is where most of the imaging happens after making raw adjustments.
Jim
HCE HCE wrote:
SOP doesn't have the same marketing appeal IMHO.
If you disable your GPU doesn't your image processing suffer?
Leighton,
That is what I thought too - until I read the memory section on the M2 wiki page. The ram is not on the die. Just the cpu & gpu are on die, and then a package is created with the memory being shared at various bandwiths - 128-bit memory bus with 100 GB/s bandwidth, and the M2 Pro, M2 Max, and M2 Ultra have approximately 200 GB/s, 400 GB/s, and 800 GB/s
leighton w wrote:
I'm not sure if this a semantics issue, but RAM and Unified memory are essentially the same thing. Unified memory is just RAM built into the CPU chip for Apple silicon Macs. Its "unified" with the CPU.
A question for you please. When I was a teen growing up in NOVA, we used to ride bikes on the C&O Canal. There was a place to park underneath the bridge next to a place that rented boats. Do you know if that is still there?
Thank you, Leighton, for your kind words.
Yes, C&O Canal is full of people riding bikes all day long and this morning it's very busy! There are boat rentals as well and good place for walking, which is what I try to do whenever I can during weekends. Few morning images along C&O Canal this morning with W-Nikkor-C 3.5cm f/2.5 lens.
James Markus wrote:
Leighton,
That is what I thought too - until I read the memory section on the M2 wiki page. The ram is not on the die. Just the cpu & gpu are on die, and then a package is created with the memory being shared at various bandwiths - 128-bit memory bus with 100 GB/s bandwidth, and the M2 Pro, M2 Max, and M2 Ultra have approximately 200 GB/s, 400 GB/s, and 800 GB/s
ocean2059 wrote:
Thank you, Leighton, for your kind words.
Yes, C&O Canal is full of people riding bikes all day long and this morning it's very busy! There are boat rentals as well and good place for walking, which is what I try to do whenever I can during weekends. Few morning images along C&O Canal this morning with W-Nikkor-C 3.5cm f/2.5 lens.
Thanks, glad to see it's still there. When I used it, oh lets see, probably around 50 years ago , there wasn't a whole lot of people on the old tow path. In fact, it was so rough in some areas, you had to get off and walk your bike.
I also hiked 20 miles on it while in the Boy Scouts and camped out overnight in Harpers Ferry. It was so cold that night, that when we woke up in the morning there were huge ice chunks floating down the river. I got my cooking merit badge on that trip! God I'm old.
leighton w wrote:
Thanks, glad to see it's still there. When I used it, oh lets see, probably around 50 years ago , there wasn't a whole lot of people on the old tow path. In fact, it was so rough in some areas, you had to get off and walk your bike.
I also hiked 20 miles on it while in the Boy Scouts and camped out overnight in Harpers Ferry. It was so cold that night, that when we woke up in the morning there was huge ice chunks floating down the river. I got my cooking merit badge on that trip! God I'm old. ...Show more →
I'm glad that these images and places bring good memories! I've been living in DC-MD-VA area since 1986 and there are some many things and places along the C&O Canal to explore all the way to Harpers Ferry.
Even we are too young to remember Nikkors in the 1950s.
I found and procured these magazine pages by John Wolbarst, 1951 – 1965 Managing editor and, later, Consulting editor of Modern Photography, on the speculation that my R-Nikkor prototype 523002 had been used for the article and perhaps photographed. To my disappointment it has a stock photo with the first prototype 523001, serial number can be read if you squint. It is likely 523001 stayed in Japan and 523002 was sent as a sample to the USA. It may very well have been used to photograph the document in the article.
This sample lens was put away by someone as it is like new, the seller stated her father kept it wrapped in a lens cloth stored inside a lidded leather and golden metal dice cup for many years, she sent the lens inside that dice cup to me.
Here is the article, photographed using the R-Nikkor but just handheld, must download Flickr at 100% to see what the lens did, as printing is from a dot plate and looks fuzzy at lower magnification.
James Markus wrote:
Leighton,
That is what I thought too - until I read the memory section on the M2 wiki page. The ram is not on the die. Just the cpu & gpu are on die, and then a package is created with the memory being shared at various bandwiths - 128-bit memory bus with 100 GB/s bandwidth, and the M2 Pro, M2 Max, and M2 Ultra have approximately 200 GB/s, 400 GB/s, and 800 GB/s
"All the better to create a serious upcharge for RAM increases, my dear" said the wolf. That's probably the biggest beef I have with Apple, the base systems seem fairly competitive, but go beyond 8GB RAM or scale up the storage and you're into upper crust pricing.
Continuing to embrace the lens' characters, a couple with the 50 f1.4 AI on tubes.
, there wasn't a whole lot of people on the old tow path. In fact, it was so rough in some areas, you had to get off and walk your bike. 
