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Poll: Time it takes Phocus to process TIFF-16 on your system?

cbobfoto

cbobfoto

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I'm a long time Hasselblad V user, and have recently moved into the H system; H3DII39. I recently discovered this forum, and am happy to meet you all!

The camera is straight forward, but Phocus 1.1.2 seems a bit sluggish and buggy on my laptop. There is undoubtedly a learning curve here so my performance is likely more of a system/user issue than Phocus itself. I'm shooting tethered and the Phocus image browser is slow, with a 2-3 second delay in simply clicking on the arrow-forward in the scratchpad window. My 8 month old MacBook Pro (10.5.6, 2.5ghz Core Duo, 4 GB Ram, GeForce 8600 GT 512MB VRAM) processes a raw file to a TIFF-16 in 50 seconds. I was just curious what times other users realize? If you're experiencing much faster times and/or overall performance & have any suggestions, please feel free to share. Many thanks in advance!

bobc
 
bobc

In the readme section of PHOCUS 1.1.2 the following is mentioned :

For a laptop choose a MACBOOK PRO with 512MB Geforce 9400/9600M graphic adapter and remember to run it in the high performance Geforce 9600 mode when using PHOCUS .

You will find the readme section when downloading PHOCUS 1.1.2 from the HASSELBLAD download service .
 
I am get a consistent 36-40 seconds to process a 39mp file to 16 bit Tiff.

MacBook Pro, Intel Core 2 Duo, 2.4 GHz, 4GB ram, GeForce 8600M GT

Paul
 
Thank you!

thanks!

Since I can't upgrade my video card, and the computer is less than year old, I'll work with this machine until Apple announces another speed bump with the new MBP.
 
details please..

unbelievable, congrats! What system? please share specs: OS, hardware, ram, videocard etc...

thankyou
 
jotloob said:
bobc

In the readme section of PHOCUS 1.1.2 the following is mentioned :

For a laptop choose a MACBOOK PRO with 512MB Geforce 9400/9600M graphic adapter and remember to run it in the high performance Geforce 9600 mode when using PHOCUS .

You will find the readme section when downloading PHOCUS 1.1.2 from the HASSELBLAD download service .
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That said, my MacBook (non-Pro, the aluminium unibody MacBook) works nicely with Phocus, I do not find it slow or anything. I have yet to run the same experiment on my oldish Mac Mini G4 machine (just for fun).

So: I guess most people would be well served by first trying Phocus on thei existing kit before running off to buy new hardware. Money is hard to come by these days after all.

Wilko
 
very interesting

I understood that Phocus was written for the MacOS first, and the PC software written after that. If that's the case, one would guess that the Mac version would be snappier, since its at least one update ahead. Perhaps the programmers learned a few tricks in writing for the Mac that they were able to incorporate into younger PC version of Phocus. Or your PC hardware (which appears to be state of the art) is simply trouncing that of the latest Macs.




Derek Jecxz said:
It is a Lenovo w700 laptop with dual SSD drives running Windows Vista 64:

http://shop.lenovo.com/SEUILibrary/...-category-id=469B22CBBD044D2CB149286D6891D3E6

Video: NVIDIA Quadro FX 3700M 128-core CUDA parallel computing processor 1GB (dedicated)

Processor: Intel Core 2 Extreme processor X9100 (3.06GHz 1066MHz 6MBL2)

RAM: 4 GB PC3-8500 DDR3 SDRAM 1067MHz SODIMM Memory (2 DIMM)

It's lightning fast.

Kind regards,
Derek Jecxz
www.jecxz.com
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To me the logical explanation of a newer version of Phocus for Mac computers is this version was updated at the same time or even before the PC version became available.
That does not mean the PC version is outdated.
It probably holds the same updates in their first version.
 
OK

I wasn't insinuating that the PC version was outdated, just how surprised I am that a hopped up PC would blow the doors off a Mac in Phocus. I admit I've been spoiled by the elegance & performance of Adobe products (Bridge, LR, CS3/4) and can only hope that Phocus one day comes close to that standard. In the meantime, I'll try to remain patient with the 3-4 second delays when browsing from one photo to the next, the 60 second TIF processing times, and occasional freezes/restarts throughout a shoot day. Hopefully my clients will be able to as well!
 
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