I find 8gb is pretty much what i need when running lightroom and photoshop together. LR alone eats up 1-2gb of ram. LR3 was pretty dog slow on my 4gb laptop with a 2ghz amd dual core. Anything less would be painful.
David Parsons <parsons.da...@gmail.com> wrote: >PentaxForums has had user generated lens profiles for a couple years >now, since the feature was introduced in version 3.x. You copy them >to a specific folder and LR can use them. > >As for dropping XP support, it's for the best ultimately. Using a >64bit OS that can use all the memory that you can throw at it is a >very good thing, and it tends to be accompanied with updated hardware. > I didn't really appreciate the requirement at first, but I'm much >happier using 8GB of memory when using LR than I would have been >trying to use 2GB total system memory. > >On Tue, Jan 29, 2013 at 3:54 PM, Igor Roshchin <s...@komkon.org> wrote: >> >> Unfortunately, that is of little help to me. >> Despite owning LR4, I don't use it. >> >> I am angry at Adobe with respect to how the handled LR. >> >> First, they dropped supporting Win XP in their LR-4. [*] >> And you do not have an option in LR-4 to keep the database format >> backward compatible to that of LR-3. So, since I need to multiplex >> my photographs and LR databases between my Win7 laptop and Win XP >> desktop, and my wife needs to multiplex those between her Win7 laptop >> and WinXP Netbook (not supported by Win7), I have not installed the >> LR-4 that I purchased last year. >> >> Second, they do not put the lens profiles in the open, you are forced >to >> use Adobe's software - for what? for downloading profiles? >> At least I cannot find a website listing the existing profiles >> (I don't even mention capability of downloading them). Why such >> a secrecy? I understand the convenience of the tool, but please >> give me an option of just downloading the profile from the website. >> >> The problem for me is that they dropped their support for LR-3.* in >> the tools that they create, including the lens profile downloader: >that >> one supports LR4 only. >> >> ---- >> [*] Before you intend to jump in explaining why XP is and old >technology >> that should not be supported, read two responses to His Arrogancy >> Mr. Scott Kelby (of Adobe) - by Steve and StR (both close to the >top): >> >http://scottkelby.com/2012/lightroom-4-and-leaving-the-past-behind/#comments >> (Note that some browsers, e.g. Opera, do not display comments on >> Mr. Kelby's blog. I don't know why, but Mr. Kelby must have decided >that >> Opera is too old to support, since it exists since 1995.) >> >> >> Igor >> >> >> >> >> Tue Jan 29 14:09:26 EST 2013 >> Matthew Hunt wrote: >> >> On Tue, Jan 29, 2013 at 1:47 PM, Bruce Walker <bruce.walker at >gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> One of the tips in a Lightroom tutorial, "Five handy tips for >working >>> with photos in Lightroom 4", contains a link to a free Adobe app >that >>> I bet a few of us can use: Adobe Lens Profile Creator 1.0.4. >>> >>> All you need to do is shoot a checkerboard pattern with the >"unknown" >>> lens and inspect it in the utility, creating an installable profile >in >>> the process. >>> >>> http://www.adobe.com/support/downloads/detail.jsp?ftpID=5489 >> >> Before going to the effort of creating a profile, it's worth trying >> the Lens Profile Downloader to see if someone else has already done >> it: >> >> Mac: http://www.adobe.com/support/downloads/detail.jsp?ftpID=5491 >> Windows: http://www.adobe.com/support/downloads/detail.jsp?ftpID=5492 >> >> I got a profile for the A28/2.8 that way. I don't think the camera >> body for the profile has to match yours (although maybe there's >slight >> variation in "vignetting" corrections, due to sensor microlens >> differences and such). >> >> >> -- >> 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. https://www.facebook.com/zosxaviusphotography -- 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.
