Hello Gentlemen and Ladies,
I am going through my old raw files and (like 600Gb of them) and I am finding it takes a very long time to process files. (i kid you not!)
does anyone know of a site that has tested different Raw converters and timed the conversion in therms of speed and file size, shooting with a 1Ds raw -> 16bit tiff
58 raw files (3.56Gb of 16bit tiff) took me 33min with CaptureOne 3.7.3 on my x64 windows machine Dual Opteron 250 8Gb ram ??
I then did the same thing with Camera RAW 3.6 and the same took me 7:32 min ? that is one huge difference (4x faster!). abeit, it took me a lot longer to go through the images and make adjustments in Camera Raw then it took in C1.
quality is another issue, which does the better job. IMHO C1, but camera raw, would give me alot of time to work on the images i like at 4x the speed!!
Camera Raw with its auto feature gets you into the ball park, where as with C1 there really isn't a auto feature as such, that runs over the lot whole folder.
I am a long time C1 user and attended a local Adobe workflow seminar, which made a lot of sense using Bridge and the Camera Raw to work your images in, for getting out proofs, renaming and sorting things, especially the rating and label thing was quite nice
what do people thing?
Thanks
Henrik