Having been somewhat critical about this beast recently I think it only fair to say that the latest beta version of Photodesk 3.2 does go some way to answer my criticisms about the speed of rendering images.
Running on a Mac G4 Dual processor 1 GHz Mac: OS X .2; 512 Mb Ram. Photoshop 7. All file at 13Mb RAW size and converted to 40Mb TIFF. Opened 49 Raw files [ 646Mb in total ] off HD into contact sheet in 7 secs. Rendered 1 image to screen size in 2 secs. Rendered 49 images to screen size in 58 secs. Converted 13Mb Raw file to 40Mb TIFF in about 28 secs. These times are a real advance on the previous times and clearly will cut down the drinking time availiable during upload times! There are also some imporoved tools in there but for my money it is the speed which is really the most important feature here and Kodak have again proved that whwatever else, they can right some pretty good software. There is a new beta version of the firmware about to be released so hopefully that will also have some of the requisite WOW! features which the 14n needs. Am minded of McAuley's Axiom " if a system is of sufficient complexity it will be built before it is designed, implemented before it is tested and outdated before it is debugged". Just hope the last supposition is incorrect! Cheers Mike St Maur Sheil T> + 44 (0) 1367 870 276 F> + 44 (0) 1367 870 641 M> + 44 (0) 7860 508 679 W> www.sheilphoto.co.uk ---------------------------- =============================================================== GO TO http://www.prodig.org for ~ GUIDELINES ~ un/SUBSCRIBING ~ ITEMS for SALE
