Bits and pieces about me and photography,
KEEPING SEVERAL APERTURE LIBRARIES
I am using Aperture as both my digital asset management system as well as for doing post processing. That is I do not do very much in in Aperture besides some minor fixes to the picture. For major things I mainly use the Nik Software (http://www.niksoftware.com) suit for most of the things I do in post. All of my pics have been in one Aperture library which means that the total number of pics in this library are getting close to 50.000. The library is stored on a Drobo (http://www.drobo.com), a device that can hold 4 hard drives and which also set up the hard drives in a sort of RAID system. This means that if one hard drive goes down I can just pull it out from the Drobo and replace it with another drive without affecting my big Aperture library. However, I have the latest months noticed that Aperture has become extremely slow. Start up time of appr. 10 min, moving a picture within the library/project took ages - in other words I saw the spinning beach ball very much more than I wanted to. I suspected that it was the Drobo, but now it seems as if the problem actually is Aperture. It seems as when an Aperture library goes above 10.000 pics it starts to slow down. Listen to this Audioboo by Scott Borne -http://audioboo.fm/boos/66432-lightroom-aperture-tip. So I have now started to divide my Aperture library in to smaller ones. And I have done it as per this advise -http://www.johnthawley.com/journal/2009/5/11/managing-multiple-libraries-in-aperture.html. It took some days to create the new libraries and move the pics in to them, but I hope that I now will have a much more faster and efficient work flow when using Aperture.
I am using Aperture as both my digital asset management system as well as for doing post processing. That is I do not do very much in in Aperture besides some minor fixes to the picture. For major things I mainly use the Nik Software (http://www.niksoftware.com) suit for most of the things I do in post. All of my pics have been in one Aperture library which means that the total number of pics in this library are getting close to 50.000. The library is stored on a Drobo (http://www.drobo.com), a device that can hold 4 hard drives and which also set up the hard drives in a sort of RAID system. This means that if one hard drive goes down I can just pull it out from the Drobo and replace it with another drive without affecting my big Aperture library. However, I have the latest months noticed that Aperture has become extremely slow. Start up time of appr. 10 min, moving a picture within the library/project took ages - in other words I saw the spinning beach ball very much more than I wanted to. I suspected that it was the Drobo, but now it seems as if the problem actually is Aperture. It seems as when an Aperture library goes above 10.000 pics it starts to slow down. Listen to this Audioboo by Scott Borne -http://audioboo.fm/boos/66432-lightroom-aperture-tip. So I have now started to divide my Aperture library in to smaller ones. And I have done it as per this advise -http://www.johnthawley.com/journal/2009/5/11/managing-multiple-libraries-in-aperture.html. It took some days to create the new libraries and move the pics in to them, but I hope that I now will have a much more faster and efficient work flow when using Aperture.
SAVE CUSTOM SETTINGS
When getting the camera back and put it on the menu texts were all in Chinese. No problem since the girl at Canon could set it back to English. However, I then realized that all my custom settings were gone and the camera was back to the default settings. I have actually made quite a few changes to get the camera to my liking. Considering also that I have taken at least 50.000 pics with these settings I am quite lost with the default settings from Canon. It was about then I recalled that there is a feature in the 1D III (and maybe other Canon cameras as well) where you can save your favorite settings to a memory card. If I had done that before giving the camera to the Canon service centre I could have just installed my custom settings from my memory card. Realizing this I have now of saved my settings to an old small CF card, but I have also realized that I can make several settings for different types of shoots. One such setting I am now think of is for flash/”studio” photography. I will test and see how it would work. Do you need like to memory cards for that or is it possible to have several profiles on one card? I will be back.
When getting the camera back and put it on the menu texts were all in Chinese. No problem since the girl at Canon could set it back to English. However, I then realized that all my custom settings were gone and the camera was back to the default settings. I have actually made quite a few changes to get the camera to my liking. Considering also that I have taken at least 50.000 pics with these settings I am quite lost with the default settings from Canon. It was about then I recalled that there is a feature in the 1D III (and maybe other Canon cameras as well) where you can save your favorite settings to a memory card. If I had done that before giving the camera to the Canon service centre I could have just installed my custom settings from my memory card. Realizing this I have now of saved my settings to an old small CF card, but I have also realized that I can make several settings for different types of shoots. One such setting I am now think of is for flash/”studio” photography. I will test and see how it would work. Do you need like to memory cards for that or is it possible to have several profiles on one card? I will be back.
CMOS CLEANING AND CALIBRATION
This week I went to Canon here in Shanghai for cleaning of sensor and calibrating my lenses to the 1D III. I also brought the old 20D for a cleaning. I especially wanted to have the 24-105/4L checked because I have had this feeling that there was a problem with the sharpness. Never really could my finger on it, I mean it very well also be me not doing a proper work with it. Anyhow it felt good to have it calibrated. Besides the 24-105 they also calibrated the 50/1.8, 16-35/2.8L and the 70-200/2.8L. Cleaning the sensor costs appr. 14 dollars and I was told that it would be the same for each lens they calibrated. When picking up the gear the day after I only had to pay 28 dollars. No costs for calibrating the lenses. I guess that this is because the old problem with the autofocus of the 1D III. Whatever the reason was I just bowed and said thank you. I will now see if the 24-105 will deliver sharper images. If not, it is me who has to shape up. And the pic has nothing to do with the text but I just had to get a pic in to try the Journal format.
This week I went to Canon here in Shanghai for cleaning of sensor and calibrating my lenses to the 1D III. I also brought the old 20D for a cleaning. I especially wanted to have the 24-105/4L checked because I have had this feeling that there was a problem with the sharpness. Never really could my finger on it, I mean it very well also be me not doing a proper work with it. Anyhow it felt good to have it calibrated. Besides the 24-105 they also calibrated the 50/1.8, 16-35/2.8L and the 70-200/2.8L. Cleaning the sensor costs appr. 14 dollars and I was told that it would be the same for each lens they calibrated. When picking up the gear the day after I only had to pay 28 dollars. No costs for calibrating the lenses. I guess that this is because the old problem with the autofocus of the 1D III. Whatever the reason was I just bowed and said thank you. I will now see if the 24-105 will deliver sharper images. If not, it is me who has to shape up. And the pic has nothing to do with the text but I just had to get a pic in to try the Journal format.
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