I find it's a Really Bad Idea to keep these vintage computing anecdotes in mind, though. All that does is hamper you when you are deciding how to accomplish many computing tasks. If you keep on thinking that 400 megabytes is enormous, you will miss opportunities like stacking multiple images.
I remember how much getting a second 4K core plane (12 bit words!) did for my PDP-8/e assembler programs. :) On Fri, Feb 24, 2017 at 2:56 PM, Gonz <rgonzoma...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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. -- -bmw -- 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.
