On Nov 2, 2006, at 6:10 PM, J and K Messervy wrote: > I borrowed "The Medium Format Advantage" by Enrst Wildi from the local > library the other day and it is very informative. The book was > published in > 1995. I've just reached the chapter on Digital Imaging and Medium > Format > and it is almost quaint. > > I quote: > > "Image processing programs run faster when there is a large amount > of RAM > available. Plan on at least 16 MB of RAM. If you want to do > commercial > work, plan on more. Just as you will need plenty of RAM when > processing > your images, you will need a large-capacity hard disk for storing your > images. At lease 300 MB is a good starting place."
Ah, the good old days. Back when I started doing digital imaging, a 10Mbyte hard drive and 512K RAM was such a huge amount of computing space for a home computer it was almost inconceivable that I could own it for under $4000! (The system I did digital imaging work on for NASA cost over $28 Million and required a 20x30', power and air conditioned room to house it in.) Godfrey -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
