graphic designer ma, we do photo editing only

Bang, takde RM14k dont mention proper hd camcorder (professional one)

One advantages of hd cam is that can do MCP during events. Other then that a normal dslr is more then capable

GTX280 released yr 08

Lightroom actually quite hunger for ram and etc.
But well, I run on my i5 rig, 16gb and SSD no lag

Correct, Lightroom doesnt need decent GC, but as u say saving at hdd and ssd deliver almost same speed, especially when u spot removal, and brush alot, it start lagging, im running on ssd crucial m4, 8gb ram , i5 also feel abit lag sometime when doing alot of layer brush, editing 18mp raw file only, I cant imagine how slow if edit d800 raw @@"

You must be using some high end graphics card I assume?

From my experience, I shoot with both D700 and D800 in NEF 14-bit lossless, basically during post processing as I arrange the images based on shoot time I can't exactly tell if I'm editing on 12MP or 36MP... feels similar to me in terms of speed and system responsiveness, but I have a habit of generating all the 1:1 previews ready. And yes I use a lot of spot removal too + brush layer ever since LR4 and now LR5 I rarely get into Photoshop unless I need liquify.

Me too , only go photoshop when i need liquify , other than that LightRoom 4 can done the job , from the review Lightroom 5 even more powerful especially the spot removal tools , i gonna try it one day


For me , editing MediumRAW and LargeRaw got different , especially when u using Brush tools , u will feel lagging on LargeRAW file when brushing , i feel smooth on MediumRAW/SmallRAW , JPEG have the most smooth editing experience

This post has been edited by chongkiatz: Jul 11 2013, 03:25 PM

Yea when editing, the difference is minimal since it's already loaded in memory. But when you load next picture, I think there should be difference. Or even startup lightroom or when you activate lightroom from background, etc.

Didn't really monitor VM, but from my previous experience, seems Windows will use VM even if you have more than enough RAM.

Are you on Windows 7 or 8?

I'm on 7, 8 didn't catch my attention yet LOL.

I think quite different thing, Lightroom and PS eats a lot of RAM and Processor power compared to GC.

My laptop only have built in Intel HD3k GC but with i5 and 8gb ram, lightroom and ps don't really lag a lot when processing my RAW files.

yea.. correct.. they no need a powerful gc
all they need is ram, ssd and processing power

Awaiting for the MBP Haswell to arrive... at the moment my notebooks aren't powerful enough But I was thinking if my desktop with i7-3770 also not that smooth... I wonder how would the MBP perform :S

is that your PSU aging? XD
because my old rig PSU aging (still working) and power output slowly decrease till it spoil my graphic card recently. and HDD nearly die...

till my friend use my new PSU to feed higher power to make it normal state

i'm not sure about that la.

Retina mbp 15 is fast! But of course expensive

I tried LR5 on my studio imac 27 inch, seems to be okay. Didnt try with D800 raw file yet though lol

I am finding a photo that was posted a while back showing the skyline of KL day and night fused in a single panorama.. Is it in V20 or V19?

My PC is assembled last year, all new except GC is old. Using a Corsair TX650M.


Yeap, but its the only few with IPS screen. I actually prefer Windows, but haven't seen one with IPS and good price. I mean if the Windows is going to cost as much as a MBP, might as well buy a MBP?

But at the moment waiting for Haswell, since its around the corner. Just don't like buying Apple items when it has release for sometime since its close to EOL. I always buy them when they release, "last longer".

maybe this help...

http://photographylife.com/efficient-light...solution-images

Thanks for sharing mate
The render 1:1 Preview thing is worth trying haha

And of course, upgrading to an SSD will significantly decrease loadtimes

Awesome tip, will try this out

Btw, another way to "speed up" would be to disable automatically saving to .xmp which I read somewhere. Downside, if you are halfway editing and LR crashes, you loose your edits. LR5 isn't as stable LR4 on my system, maybe due to the .xmp saving perhaps?

I've seen alot of windows based laptop and alot of them doesnt have a screen as nice as mbp. Viewing angle on some of the laptop are just horrible, off center abit cannot see anything already. The one which has usually will cost almost similar to mbp

That is one of the reason i choose mbp over normal windows based laptop

Yeap, same as me! But I'm waiting for the Haswell to arrive instead, definitely grabbing a 15" MBP.