Jan Jurgensen Posted February 14, 2007 Share #1 Posted February 14, 2007 Advertisement (gone after registration) My first post. Got my M8 package the other day: hardware and software. As expected, the camera is a delight to handle. Tried it in-doors with high-speed lenses and high ISO settings. Took it out-side on a cold winter’s day. No problems so far. The old Tri-Elmar may even improve its usability as it performs like a small-wide-angle/normal/small-tele kind of lens. The Capture One LE workflow appears quite usable too. I have some questions for this forum, however: 1) I can see no special support for the M8 in this software? Only the Leica DMR is mentioned by the SW itself. Is there any plug-in or some other SW thing that one should add? I had expected something of the kind as Leica has praised this particular combination of SW and HW. 2) And now to the workflow. I expect to be using DNG, TIF and JPG type files. Here’s an example: taking 15 pictures makes 15 DNG files. I’ll delete 5 of these and leave 2 for future use and turn the remaining 8 into TIF with C1LE. Of these 8 I’ll make 3 into JPG for print or whatever. A total of about 350 MB. Quite big in my view, because the TIF files are uncompressed. Is there a better way? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
barjohn Posted February 14, 2007 Share #2 Posted February 14, 2007 Did you download the current version? The one on the disk is out of date. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
arthury Posted February 14, 2007 Share #3 Posted February 14, 2007 350MB seems small to me for so many files. When I post-process a 6x6cm slide after scanning it, they come in 450MB each. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
wparsonsgisnet Posted February 14, 2007 Share #4 Posted February 14, 2007 Jan, yup, these images take a lot of disk space. I am shooting raw + hi-res jpg, so that adds up to about 13 MG per image. You can do the following: 1. Purge the stuff you don't want 2. If you use Photoshop, compress the tiff's using either PSCS compression level (both lossless). The DNG's can't be compressed. 3. Keep buying external hard disks (join the club). Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jan Jurgensen Posted February 24, 2007 Author Share #5 Posted February 24, 2007 Thanks all for giving me two useful answers to my two questions. I have downloaded C1LE 3.7.6 from the internet replacing 3.7.5 - and I'm now saving TIF files with the LZW option (using 12-20 Mb rather than 29 Mb) Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
peterv Posted February 24, 2007 Share #6 Posted February 24, 2007 Jan, why save disc space with such wonderful files? approximately 80 photos, DNG + JPG, will teake up about 1 Gb. Nowadays you get harddisks for practically nothing. 1Gb = 1€ or 1$ so don't throw anything away! You might regret it later! Peter Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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