Teaming Nikon D800 with MacbookPro Retina Display

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Teaming Nikon D800 with MacbookPro Retina Display

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Started 6 months ago by ideasrj
Latest reply from chris_weinert
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ideasrj

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Greetings to you all !

What is the forum's opinion about teaming up Nikon D800 with Macbook Pro, 15'' Retina Display, 2.6 Ghz, 8GB Memory. Mountain Lion 10.8.2.

I consider buying Nikon D800 but came across a few comments that the large file size of D800 shall slow down the work flow. I use the above mentioned machine and would like to know if any one using the same configuration has faced any troubles in managing the RAW files of huge size as that of D800?

Appreciate the forum's feedback on this topic.

Posted 6 months ago #
spraynpray

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Welcome to NR ideasrj.

If you look at the bottom of your post you will see an edit button which is there so you can edit your posts with double posting.

Posted 6 months ago #
adamz

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using this combo and it works, though don't expect the same smoothnes as with working with 25-30mb files, 60+mb files have they own heavy burden which You have to swallow.

Posted 6 months ago #
Wataru

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The computer speed is not the limiting factor in my workflow: with LR I can start editing files even while others are being imported. The limiting factor I have is sitting and thinking time. So large files are not a problem.

Posted 6 months ago #
chris_weinert

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I have more RAM, but I doubt that makes a difference in this case. It's working absolutely fine. I set my RAW files to lossless compression (there's no real advantage to not have it compressed), and they don't turn out larger than 43 MB, sometimes even 37 MB, depending on how much is going on in the image.

One big advantage with the Retina MBP is also the SSD drive, it gives you a lot more speed with loading files and applications. Effectively, since I only replace my computer every 4 years, I'm now working a *lot* faster than with the 25-MB files of my previous camera and my old computer.

Posted 6 months ago #