What PC you use with phocus ?

[blowupster]

Okay, my notebook is not enought powerfull to show preview. And my PC give me lot of time to sleep.
What PC (Ram and graphic card) do you use and how long it take to process a picture (for CFV-39 files) ?

 

[polypal]

Phocus demands powerfull hardware to process files quickly.
Your local PC dealer should be able tp advise you after you informed him about the systems requirements.

 

[blowupster]

Difficult to set up phocus in a PC to measure the time needed to process a picture...in a shop.

 

[blowupster]

Well with my old notebook Dell Inspiron 9300 1.86 Ghz and 1 GB ram, I need 150 seconds (2.5 minutes !) to process a picture (export).
I've not enough ram in my video card so some time I have a message of error about my video card (but I only succeed to export 3fr files in jpg without modifying) and some time it seams to work but the picture is blank in the view window but I can modify)
... yes stone age (3 years !)computer.

 

[Pete_G]

Phocus 2 is taking longer to process exports (16 bit tiffs) than previous versions of Phocus, it must be a bug of some kind and maybe will get better with an update. I use a Thinkpad T61p, 4GB RAM, Quadro FX570M Graphics chip (256MB) and Windows 7 64 bit. I get decent performance from Phocus 2, if not amazing; it's perfectly usable though. If you want to stay with laptops you could look at models that have the nVidia Quadro FX3700 with 1GB video RAM.

 

[JAT]

I use a Dell Dimension 8400 with 4 GB RAM but had to upgrade the videocard to 528 MB. Exporting a file from CFV-30 to TIFF takes 150 sec., but recently I just export DNG which I can easily import into the RAW convertor of Photoshop CS2. A DNG export only takes a few seconds.
Hope this helps

Okay, my notebook is not enought powerfull to show preview. And my PC give me lot of time to sleep.
What PC (Ram and graphic card) do you use and how long it take to process a picture (for CFV-39 files) ?

 

[blowupster]

Thanks for answers. If you use DNG then you lost V-lens correction ?

BTW I should have missed something but lost my EXIF data when exporting (to me date and time of the taken picture and iso info are important) and I did not succed to write IPTC data on files.

BTW, exported jpg may write B_0001604.jpg B001605.jpg or A_0001606.jpg,
is there a soft to rename all of them in one click as cf_001614.jp cf_001615.jpg and cf_001616.jpg (change only the first part of the name) ?

The last letters of the file name help to find 3fr files needed to re processe the picture.

 

[blowupster]

The jpg issued from Phocus 2.0 are poor files. The EXIFs are not enought documented. You loose creation date and iso info. However, it's a great performance to give 3Mb files for a 39Mpix picture.
Such compression is not always usable for skin color.

Now I convert in tiff (114Mb each picture) and then convert (Photoshop 7) to jpg (10Mb) and get correct jpg.

I'm interested to know witch way you use. I'm sure to be far from the best way.
BTW a phocus theme is perhaps needed (not in V-system ou H-system)
Perhaps in Digital Darkroom ?

 

[Professional]

I use Mac computers [2 MacBook Pro (17" 2008 model which is not working since August 2009 and new 13" after it) and one Mac Mini], also finally i upgraded me Windows PC with RAM and Graphics card and i installed Windows 7 on it, still didn't install Phocus 2 on it but i may do as soon as possible if i need it.

 

[cristif]

Thanks for answers. If you use DNG then you lost V-lens correction ?

BTW I should have missed something but lost my EXIF data when exporting (to me date and time of the taken picture and iso info are important) and I did not succed to write IPTC data on files.

BTW, exported jpg may write B_0001604.jpg B001605.jpg or A_0001606.jpg,
is there a soft to rename all of them in one click as cf_001614.jp cf_001615.jpg and cf_001616.jpg (change only the first part of the name) ?

The last letters of the file name help to find 3fr files needed to re processe the picture.

You might check Windows Commander (Total Commander) for this task. It was some handy rename facilities... .

 

[blowupster]

Thanks,
I discover that my usal viewer (Xnview is free) used at home and at work can do this too.
BTW I use it to modify ITPC, find files, put order in files build htlm galery build documented diaporama, resize by lot... and even to get fats preview of 3FR or fff files.