Subject | Re: converting raw images from Canon EOS 600D |
From | Floyd L. Davidson |
Date | 11/30/2013 23:27 (11/30/2013 13:27) |
Message-ID | <87mwklmsp6.fld@apaflo.com> |
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Newsgroups | rec.photo.digital |
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Followups | J. Clarke (35m) > Floyd L. Davidson nospam (1h & 41m) |
nospamSo the fact that you don't have to develop your own set of tools, and just take one off the shelf and form you workflow around it somehow is better. Fine.
In article <3PSdnR7bfK0hZATPnZ2dnUVZ_q-dnZ2d@giganews.com>, Alan Browne <alan.browne@FreelunchVideotron.ca>wrote:nospamAlan BrowneFloyd L. Davidsonnospam
Also be aware that with Linux if you become proficient at writing shell scripts there is just no end of ways to improve productivity. The ImageMagick tools are fabulous for editing. And there are many ways a shell script can speed up your workflow. For example, I preview my images, as JPEGs, with a very customized version of XV which can sort them into various directories. The JPEG images I don't want to convert with UFRAW go into one special directory, and then a shell script moves the RAW files to the same directories where the JPEG is now at. Then I run UFRAW and it never loads a file I don't want to process. Plus when I want to run the batch on all of them, I use a script that does odd things like automatically setting wavelet noise reduction depending on the ISO it was shot at, and it determines how many CPU cores are available and proceeds to keep each CPU busy with a different process (which with as many as 12 cores can make a huge difference in how fast a few hundred RAW files can be converted to TIFF files).
if that isn't proof that linux users do things in the most difficult and most convoluted way possible, i don't know what is.
Well put. (Except that Linux users can make things even more difficult and convoluted when they really warm up).
To a Linux user the above inanity is a badge of honour.
no kidding. they think it is somehow a good thing.
meanwhile, mac/win users can do the same in almost no time, without needing to write and debug a script. drag lightroom to the apps folder and start processing.
once they do that, they can go out and do something more interesting in all the time they have left over from not needing to hack up and then debug a solution.