In the 80's, a company I worked for had the big room with raised floors for all the computing equipment. One day, after we had been chronically short on disk space, a huge box came in. It was a washing machine sized disk drive from Fujitsu, that came with the whopping capacity of 400Mbytes. We were overjoyed.
On Fri, Feb 24, 2017 at 8:36 AM, Mark C <pdml-m...@charter.net> wrote: > On 2/23/2017 6:33 PM, Bill wrote: >> >> I've been doing a lot of focus stacked macros with pixel shift. The level >> of detail goes up quite a bit, and blown out reds seem to be a thing of the >> past as well. >> The only downside is that a couple of dozen K1 pixel shift files stacked >> up in Photoshop take all 32 GB of memory and then some, so unless you have a >> smokin' hot box, you may find yourself wanting to upgrade. >> I don't miss my 6x7 any more. >> >> bill > > > I did the upgrade to 32 gb / 8 cores / SSD last year, so I should be > prepared. I use Zerene Stacker for larger stacks and it is more efficient > with memory than is PS, though I usually combine multiple ZS stacks in PS. > I'm sure things will feel a bit more sluggish working with K-1 files, but > 6x7 scans weigh in at 560 megs so they can be demanding as well. > > Mark > > > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and > follow the directions. -- -- Reduce your Government Footprint -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
