Re: [Darktable-users] Use for SSD?

2014-03-18 Thread juergen
I'm currently on a workshop for photographic workflow where it's mainly about developing effectively many raw images. The goal is to find the developing steps that are the same for many images and than use this steps automatically on all these images. So, the teacher uses a SSD for storing the im

Re: [Darktable-users] Use for SSD?

2014-03-18 Thread Roumano
Hi, Of course i using a backup ;) Rsnapshot is your friend ! It's realy better than a standart rsync for backuping picture Very good & Work magicaly very good with picture Bye PS : i don't have a OCZ so i'm not specialy afraid ;) Le mardi 18 mars 2014 à 16:55 +, Robert William Hu

[Darktable-users] Noise profile for Canon PowerShot SX50 HS

2014-03-18 Thread YAFU
Hello. Regarding profiling for noise reduction: http://www.darktable.org/2012/12/profiling-sensor-and-photon-noise I do not know how to find a real scene that looks like the example shown there. I do not mean to the green color, but overexposed and underexposed in the same scene. I created this im

Re: [Darktable-users] Use for SSD?

2014-03-18 Thread Victor L
People are getting crazy when it comes to lowering write cycles on SSD ! While it was a problem some time ago; it is completely solved with TRIM and internal controllers. For example look at: http://techreport.com/review/25320/the-ssd-endurance-experiment-22tb-update Its not really representative

Re: [Darktable-users] Use for SSD?

2014-03-18 Thread Pascal Obry
Le mardi 18 mars 2014 à 16:55 +, Robert William Hutton a écrit : > On 18/03/14 16:53, Pascal Obry wrote: > > Given the fiability of SSD drives are you saying that you let your > > original pictures on the SSD for a year? Aren't you afraid of loosing a > > year of photographic work? > > That's

Re: [Darktable-users] Use for SSD?

2014-03-18 Thread Robert William Hutton
On 18/03/14 16:53, Pascal Obry wrote: > Given the fiability of SSD drives are you saying that you let your > original pictures on the SSD for a year? Aren't you afraid of loosing a > year of photographic work? That's what your backups are for, surely? ;) (I'm a sysadmin, btw. rsync is your frien

Re: [Darktable-users] Use for SSD?

2014-03-18 Thread Pascal Obry
Le lundi 17 mars 2014 à 23:51 +0100, Roumano a écrit : > Personaly I was thinking about the big avantage of SSD to also manage > also picture, so i have buy a 240Go of a SSD > > It's sufficent (for my personal usage) to store > - the OS ( ~ 25Go), > - my home DIR (~100Go, i realy need to cle

Re: [Darktable-users] Need help darkening a section of sky

2014-03-18 Thread David Vincent-Jones
An alternative idea: Mask off the entire lower section of the image then us an inverted (180 degree) 'graduated density' filter. This should provide more color density on the horizon and less as it progresses upwards. The mask will protect everything below the horizon. David On 03/18/2014 04:0

Re: [Darktable-users] Need help darkening a section of sky

2014-03-18 Thread Robert William Hutton
On 18/03/14 03:29, Kevin wrote: > I have a photo where there is a section of the sky on the horizon that is > very > white / bright. My question is: Is it possible to selectively darken that > patch of sky without leaving any banding or other artifacts? Have you tried the color zones module? T

Re: [Darktable-users] Need help darkening a section of sky

2014-03-18 Thread Kevin
Thank you for your reply. It will take me a while for me to fully understand it (so that I can do it on other images) but it does what I want. :) Cheers, Kevin On Tue, 18 Mar 2014 07:51:13 Ulrich Pegelow wrote: > This would be one idea - quick and dirty without a lot of optimization. > The princ

Re: [Darktable-users] Use for SSD?

2014-03-18 Thread Paul Glad Mihai
Not to be a downer but any *pad from Lenovo other than the thinkpad are not so great, quality wise, and will, on average, not last as long as a thinkpad. I know the price difference is hefty but it's totally worth it. Also, I would buy a bigger SSD. 24 GB just doesn't cut it, especially since with

Re: [Darktable-users] Use for SSD?

2014-03-18 Thread Bastien OVCAR
+1. I was about to say the same the same. My config is: - 128 GB SSD for /, - 256 GB SSD for /home/bastien/DOCUMENTS, - RAID5 3*1TB for /media/RAID5 So the small files needed by the applications are on a SSD and only the BIG files (movies, backups, ISO files) are stored on the RAID5