Recent content by LancsMak

I think the other consideration is to revisit old captures as your style changes. For example I edit to provide a nice capture of what the eye would have seen for most of my shots. Learning a more "arty" style is on my to-do list just to add a skill to my collection - I can easily pick some...

Always RAW, and I backup the RAW and edit information (I.e. The .dop file as I use DxO). Minimal storage footprint, maximum versatility. Off site backup is via BackBlaze. JPGs are not kept locally, I can always recreate them.

RAM, SSDs and HDDs are all massively inflated at the moment and sadly likely to be for another couple of years. It's a bad time to be after a new machine.

Sorry it doesn't work for you, but for many of us it's on a par with or better than LrC. When you're borderline on system specifications it's rare to have software run smoothly.

Have you got denoise previews on perhaps? I wouldn't expect that system to perform brilliantly but there's no reason it should be any worse in Photolab than LrC. It's "Always prefer high quality previews" that you want to ensure is unchecked.

Affinity is free now? Bloody hell, I paid for that a few eyars ago

GIMP is probably your best bet.

It doesn't, however the tiny form factor usually necessitates significant thermal limits on the processor, meaning they will under perform vs a proper desktop. Anyways, it's a free world, just trying to provide some additional considerations for you.

A couple of thoughts... Unless the mini format is essential, avoid it. You end up with lower spec for the money because of the required compromises and custom motherboards. Time now is a terrible time to upgrade unfortunately due to the record high memory prices off the back of the AI craze...

The denoise is a godsend for me since I'm often shooting sports indoors at 6k/8k/10k iso. Less often but a great time saver I'll use the AI masking. Content aware fill is a path of last resort for me, I try to set things up so I don't need to edit content in an image, so it get used if I mess up.

About 6 months ago I went over to DxO and haven't looked back. Main perks for me are no subscription, no catalog file to sync and manage, better denoise (I shoot a lot at 8k iso and above). Without a doubt there's a transition learning curve, less third party plugins support etc but I'm...

Yea even with the increase in growth in the last eyar or so I I've read (take with a pinch of salt!) that Linux is only about 5% share of the global desktop OS use.

This is something I've never even contemplated - doesn't this matter for weather sealed gear in a typical home?

I'm now firmly a Cachyos daily driver but keeping W11 dual boot for photo editing, CAD and gaming. Lightroom classic has firmly gone for me, I've gone fully over to DxO photolab with the added bonus that my backup sizes now reduced as I can backup the original RAW file rather than DNG, a...

AM5 has just been confirmed as having two more Ryzen generations so could be a good move.