An interesting pro photographer endorsement

Apple's startpage regularly profiles professionals using Apple/Mac technology to run their business. Today's pro profile was a digital photogapher (Kevin Foley) who works with celebrities, and does a serious daily volume of shooting (23GB/day). Here's the link:
http://www.apple.com/pro/photo/foley/
Interestingly enough, there is not one mention of Aperture in the article, and in fact, he endorses iView. A quote from the article:
“I use iView Media Pro for archive management, because it lets me search stuff that’s stored on DVDs,” he says. “I just run all my DVDs through the program and it creates a preview image. When I do a search, iView Media Pro is similar to Spotlight in that it will search all of the DVDs. The nice thing is that it keeps all the meta data so you can search for things similar to the way Spotlight searches for an image — by client or factor such as ‘swimsuit shots in ’97.’"
I thought this was truly ironic timing and an interesting endorsement of a competitive product to highlight in the wake of the Aperture release. Its probably just coincidence, but for those users out there who have been discussing issues with archiving and management in Aperture, read the article. I think it gives a decent recommendation for iView.
Brad

Interestingly enough, there is not one mention of
Aperture in the article, and in fact, he endorses
iView.
Actually, that article sort of makes sense.
" 'I use iView Media Pro for archive management, because it lets me search stuff that’s stored on DVDs,' he says."
Aperture can't do that. Aperture only works with online volumes. If that's his need, he needs to use what he's using.
There are acres and acres of functionality that are not in common between Aperture and iView Media Pro. This is not to bash Aperture, but to point out that they are in many ways complementary. Just as Aperture does some things that iView Media Pro can't do or can't do as well, it's the same going the other way. It's perfectly reasonable to use Aperture as the working browser and iView as the archival retriever.
Of course, the probable reason Aperture isn't mentioned is because he wasn't a beta tester and hasn't had time to work the final 1.0 version into his workflow.

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Pro-Photographer's Laptop???

I'm wondering why HP doesn't come out with a laptop for Pro & Semi-Pro Photographers?
We need some new features and some long lost features that once graced laptops.
Like:
A built-in hi-speed Compact Flash card reader.
A 4:3 format screen so we can actually see a photo taken in portrait mode. Wide-screen sux for photo viewing/editing.
A hi-rez screen with a good angle of view(178x178degrees) and a hi/wide-color gamut so we get accurate color.
A back-lit keyboard for use in dim-lit studios.
Light-weight, in the 4:3 format a 15-16" screen is all we really need.
Extended battery life for location shoots.
Durable case/textured finish. No glossy black finish, shows dirt and finger prints way to easy!
And of course power, it's needed for the ever increasing RAW and JPEG file sizes.
Is this to much to ask? There's a vast pool of pro-photographers around the world looking for the perfect laptop and there just isn't one available.
Come-on HP this is all off-the-shelf-stuff. It's just a mater of putting it all together in a package photographers can use.

Built in CF readers in laptops have gone the way of the dinosaur as have 4:3 screens. I don't know if any major laptop maker still even offers a 4:3 ratio display which is kind of a shame. I might suggest you go back a couple of years to one of the HP workstation laptops like an nc8400 or perhaps a Thinkpad T60p, which had a 15 inch 4:3 screen option and a pcmcia slot so you can add a cf reader easily. No backlit keyboard but the Thinkpads have a Thinklight which illuminates the keyboard from above but should not throw out enough light to affect a photo shoot.
T60p
second option
You can get a 12 cell extended battery for the T60p. The Thinkpad finish does not show fingerprints. The Intel Core Duo cpu on these when coupled with 2 or more gigs of RAM should be sufficient for Photoshop work.
Your other option is to look into some of the minor laptop makers like Sager who will build a more custom unit for you. I believe they still have 4:3 ratio screens available but you pay a high price. The laptop world has gone 16:9 because for some reason I do not understand widescreen panels actually cost less to make. Some Sager models use desktop processors which hurts battery life but makes for a more powerful system. Just pick up an issue of Laptop magazine or go to their website. There are 3 or 4 of these little-known minor laptop makers that offer a really good product at a fair price.
I understand your frustration and your IT needs. My wife is a pro photographer but she has always been a Mac person.

Macbook pro for pro photographer?

Hi,
im a photographer using very large files and often many layers in Photoshop and Lightroom programs.
I also will be doing a little video editing and i would like to use final cut for this. the file i just received to edit is 16GB for an indicator of size....
I need to buy a new computer and have decided to get a laptop because i do a lot of travelling for work and want to be able to work during that time on transport.
I want to be able to edit photo and video while i travel.
Obviously i need a nice hi res screen and a lot of Hard disk space and RAM.
Because i have budget issues, i have to compromise a lot and go for a small computer. I simply dont have the option to buy bigger for now. I had been checking out that beautiful giant, the Lenovo Thinkpad W700 but its just too much for me to pay.
I have been considering this customised computer which i put together using the Apple.com website:
macbook pro 13"
• 2.53GHz Intel Core 2 Duo
• 4GB 1066MHz DDR3 SDRAM - 2x2GB
• 320GB Serial ATA Drive @ 5400 rpm
• SuperDrive 8x (DVD±R DL/DVD±RW/CD-RW)
it costs around 2000aud
I should also mention that i have 750GB of external HDs that i store all my files on.
I live in Norway and would like to be able to use wireless internet on busses and at home, so the computer needs to be compatible with that (This is where my technical knowledge goes down the drain!!)
Could someone please throw me some advice about performance of the Macbook Pro 13" computers when it comes to specific editing programs like Photoshop, Final Cut, Lightroom and RAW files? I will settle for a smaller screen but i will not be happy to settle for poor performance when it comes to speed. the important thing for me is rendering time - lightroom and photoshop are a nightmare to use when you have to wait 15 seconds for any operation to take effect.
Many many thanks in advance!
Melinda

MacWorld have a useful "speed test" comparison of the various MBP's on a variety of tasks at http://www.macworld.com/article/141144-2/2009/06/macbookprobenchmarks.html
Interestingly the only really substantial difference in speed between the "base model" 15" MBP (with integrated graphics processor) and the two "faster" models with better graphics support occurs in games. The more expensive models are a little quicker on all other tasks, but not by more than about 5 to 10%.
The difference on their Photoshop test between the 2.53MHz "integrated graphics" model and the 2.66 was around 1%.
I suspect that this is because photoshop is really much more dependent on speed of drive access and the "number crunching" power of the processor itself than it is on the graphics processor.
The 13" 2.53 (with "full" graphics) comes up with an identical score on the photoshop tasks to the 15" 2.53 (with integrated graphics).
http://www.macworld.com/article/141144/2009/06/macbookprobenchmarks.html gives a comparison of the various 13" models too.
Cheers
Rod

HT4906 Why would a pro photographer use the latest iPhoto and Photo Stream?

I don't use Aperture. The upgrade to the latest and greatest iPhoto is a reasonable cost, but I have heard complaints about it all.
Thank you!
Diane

No and No.
iPhoto is not good with Referenced libraries, and so will hardly scale to the volume of images a pro is likely to have. It also has comsumer level tools for processing.
As for complaints: do you mean at the App store etc? If so those reviews aren't worth the paper they're not written on.
The problems with them are manifold: for a start, happy people are less likely to review, unhappy happy are much more inclined to. That's why we don't have thousands and thousands of posts on this forum from all the people who have no problems saying "look I have no problems". Unhappy people get cross and are more likely to express that anger in negative reviews.
Then what about the reviewer? What is his or her knowledge, experience and skill level? No doubt they are having problems, and real ones, but how do you know if their issues are problems with the app, their own inexperience, third party conflicts and so on. I've seen people on here claim the fact that iPhoto won't edit video is a bug. I've seen hundreds and hundreds of posts from folks on here who are certain they've found a bug, only for their glitch to be resolved. No review is worth anything unless you know something of the reviewer, his or her knowledge and experience.
So frankly, I never bother with those reviews on any such stores, not just iPhoto on the Mac App Store.

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I am a retiring from a large corporation and have purchased the whole Adobe suite through my company for years. The purchase deal page says I DON'T QUALIFY because of the serial number being a group license. I would like to continue working. How do I get the deal?

Hi barbeetalk2u2579,
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I am a pro photographer interested in working with video. I have 2 questions:
1. Best way/forum to learn FCP?
2. Ideal specs on Macbook Pro for FCP?
Thanks in advance for your thoughts!

The specs are clearly listed in the FCP marketing pages. They are conservative and you will need external drives.
There is no best way to learn an application as deep and complex as a video editor. You explore the net, buy some books, decide what your level of competence needs to be in order to bill your clients.
There is a direct comparison to your chosen profession. How did you learn to be a professional photographer? There's more to taking pictures than having decent equipment and known how to launch Photoshop. I started shooting when I was 11 years old in 1965 and I needed 15 years to become adept with the physics of light and the chemistry of film. Digital shooters, generally, have no clue about how their tools work. How does one teach them?
bogiesan

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John

I think you will find the answer from a like minded user blog
http://www.macperformanceguide.com
The 6-core nMP Late 2013 model with whatever you can afford in 3rd party RAM (32GB at least). And some good solid storage and SSDs. And start with at least 500GB SSD. The base model with BTO.
http://www.macperformanceguide.com/blog/2013/20131219_1-MacPro-whatIOrdered.html

Is possible to transfer photos from a macbook pro to an iphone without itunes or an internet connection?

Is possible to transfer photos from a macbook pro to an iphone 5 without itunes or an internet connection? I'm a pro photographer and I need to transfer photos from my camera, edit them, copy photos to my iphone and send via 4G network to an editor. I will be in a location without internet access and my old computer itunes wont sync with my new iphone 5. I can't upgrade the computer right now because I need some of the old software. Thanks.

Some decent suggestions for apps to do this in this thread:
http://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/52332/how-to-transfer-a-file-from-iphon e-to-computer-when-there-is-no-internet

17" MacBook Pro (late 2008) display banding in smooth gradients

While running the Screen Savers: RSS Visualizer or Spectrum, I noticed the graphics background looked different in sort of a high contrast, banded, sort of way. I compared it to the same Screen Saver on my Mac Pro w/30" Cinema Display and that looked fine and smooth, with no banding what-so-ever. Has anyone noticed a difference? Is this what I am to expect with this latest 2008 17" MacBook Pro LCD glossy display??? As a pro-photographer I find it less than perfect for editing purposes and will probably take it back, unless it is malfunctioning and it can be fixed. I've even seen 24" iMacs look practically indistinguishable to the 30" Cinema Display. Are they not able to make the 17" display as well?

I made an appointment with the Genius Bar and they ran an external FireWire Video Graphics Card Tester on the 17" MacBook Pro and found no problems with the NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT card itself. Although, after consulting with other repair technicians and observing the Screen Saver "RSS Visualizer" and more notably "Spectrum", the Genius's agreed that they was an obvious undesirable increase in dithering contrast compared to LCD iMacs and LCD Cinema Display panels. They concluded it may be a problem with the LED display and wrote up a ticket and took it in for a display replacement repair.
I went nearby to a Best Buy store to see if other 17" and 15"LED MacBooks exhibited the same appearance and found that they also had an undesirable increased contrast in dithering of gradient tonality compared to Apple LCDs. While I was there, I received a call from the Apple Genius requesting I pick up the MacBook Pro since he reneged on his decision to replace the display after further checking and found no evidence of a faulty display. He said "That's the way it apparently is supposed to be." So, currently, my conclusion is that the new LED displays regardless of model are inferior to an LCD in representing smooth tonal gradations.
I hope others more knowledgeable will chime in here to explain what the heck is really going on and offer their experience with these new LED displays. For me, I will continue to test this 17" MacBook Pro LED display with high res images from a Nikon D300 and PhaseOne P45+ comparing them on my MacPro Quad Xeon w/NVIDIA GeForce 7300 GT card and 30"LCD Cinema Display. It may be that the resolution in the Screen Saver is not up to par for these new LED displays.
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Connecting MacBook Pro to external monitor

I want to connect my late 2011 MacBook Pro (Thunderbolt port) running OS X Ver 10.9.1 to an external monitor. Am considering the HP ZR2740W 27 in LED IPS monitor. Any issues or experience in community to do this? Will I need a special cable? Any other monitors to consider/recommend?

Note that the Thunderbolt port functions as a Mini DisplayPort. This is important because you probably won't find any non-Apple monitors that list a Thunderbolt port, but many now list a Mini DisplayPort. On those monitors all you need is a Mini DisplayPort cable.
If you choose the Nixeus display, the one I'm looking at lists DisplayPort, Dual-Link DVI, HDMI, and VGA. That means you won't be able to use a straight Mini DisplayPort cable with it and your Mac. You'll need a cable with Mini DisplayPort at one end, and a plug on the other end that matches one of the ports on the display. For best performance and highest resolution support, you should use a Mini DisplayPort to DisplayPort cable.
Also, although some monitors may use "the same panel" as the Apple displays, keep in mind that Apple tends to take only the cream of the crop of that run of IPS panels, which is why they charge more. Other panels from the same lot, which have been rejected by Apple, end up in the budget IPS displays like the ones from Monoprice. These are still great panels, near the top of the lot, but just not quite good enough for Apple. They may be slightly off in terms of brightness uniformity or dead pixels, but if you're not like a pro photographer or something the budget monitor should be more than good enough.

24" iMac for Good for Pro Use?

Hi,
I am considering getting a 24" iMac. I would like to get a Mac Pro with a pro display but my budget does not stretch that far. I have no worries about the speed of the Duo 2 Core 2.4Ghz, my concern is about the DISPLAY. I am going to be working in Photoshop editing images. I am a professional photographer. I went to my local Apple Store and took a look and I did see on the 20" the gradient thing. On the 24" it looked better but with a flat grey background image it did look completely uneven.
Are these displays up to handing pro work? Does the glossy screens render colors badly, even after a calibration. How concerned should I be about this?
Thanks,
Martin.

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Question for pros: should I keep this 23" ACD?

I have a new "23 six days to evaluate whether to keep or exchange it for a different one. I'm a pro photographer and this is my first large LCD other than the 17" on my MBP. I could use a little advice on whether to keep this or not for the following reasons:
Overall in normal conditions the illumination is even and there is little or no pink (magenta) tint. It calibrates well with my Eye-One puck. There is a little ghosting of white windows (like browsers) after they've been up several minutes but it's faint and they fade and that doesn't bother me too much, though I do notice it occasionally. The main issue is the backlight leakage in deep blacks when the room lights are down. It is in the lower part of the monitor, mostly concentrated in the corners. I do notice it in the uncommon photos that have a lot of black in them, mostly ones shot at night.
Is this common behaviour for all these monitors? I don't expect perfection but would like to know if this one should be returned for another, whether I can expect to find a perfect one. If it's typical for all LCDs I'm fine with this, but if it's not, perhaps I should be thinking exchange.
I've kind of decided to go Apple because Iezo (sp?) are kind of expensive and I've seen photographers on the galbraith forums complain about highly restricted angle of view on the Dells.
Many thanks in advance for any thoughts.
dave

You should expect perfection and as a photograph you need to be sure of your display! Send it back direct and make an complain, don´t do what I did, expect Apple to take special care of pro people.
If you don´t get it fixed, turn it back! It´s several pro products out there ( maybe not so good looking), even if LaCie is a sometimes stange company, thay always been taking care of defect products (even after warranty is out).
Don´t accept any ghosting at all, not for that price!
Thats my advice, since I have 4 of them and after one yera they start to show up tha bad quality ( you know, the exact limit of the warranty must be calculated in
knowledge of this.........)
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Upgrades for Faster Performance Macbook Pro Late 2011?

Hey!
I'm a pro photographer and amateur - entry level video editor. I do lots of photoshop and lightroom works and lately I've been doing lots of Final Cut Prox stuff as well. Basically, i handle lots of media, which is probably the worst scenario for having low budget for equipment.
Anyways, I have a Late 2011 Macbook Pro with 2.8 GHz Intel Core i7 processor. 4GB Ram (2x2GB). Intel HD Graphics 3000 384 MB running OS X 10.9.5.
I was so excited to get a new system because my macbook wasn't running softwares as smoothly as I needed them (srsly, 4gb is not good for anything on this business) so after a bunch of research I created a nice custom pc and ordered all the parts. My main idea was to create a beast custom pc and selling my mbpro to have a mb air which was portable and in which i could do all my university and low-end stuff that didnt require much work. Just minutes after that I thought about upgrading my macbook pro, but i was so hooked on the fact that the first time i bought this macbook the store guy was all like "you can't upgrade anything on this model" and i just never thought about it until now. Then, i now realise that i could actually upgrade to 8GB (16gb NOT according to apple but according to other forums and Crucial's site) and I can boost the HDD to 1TB or get a 500GB SSD.
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Can i really upgrade to up to 16GB? will that cause any issues or is it safe to go for 8GB? what about 12GB?. Is the GPU gonna be an issue? Can i upgrade to both an HDD AND an SSD on this system or i can only use one of the two? Also, i just read someone saying that they took out the optical drive to put in the HDD and replace the HDD slot with the SSD so they have the 2 drives. IS that possible?? Any pro advice is appreciated.
Any tips and considerations would be nice
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Thanks!

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So the new MacPro's are almost ready to drop and I can get a new box at long last. Unfortunately the options are a bit dizzying, so I'm hoping for some guidance.
Me: pro photographer - shoot 100% RAW files, 21 MP camera. Current image library over 25,000 files. "Average" shoot nets 500-2,000 files which must be ingested (Lightroom), edited and selects converted. Photoshop work is generally more in the retouching than composition mode - in other words, I don't have massive files with multiple composited layers - my layer stack is generally in the range of 20+ layers, many of them adjustment layers.
Software PS CS3, will be upgrading to CS5 with new box. Lightroom - will upgrade that too. I expect to add either Capture 1 or Hassleblad Phocus in the next year.
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I would like to keep my initial investment between $4 - 5,000 max, less could be better!
I am happy to either go with the newly released MacPro or the box that will, in the next day or two, be "out-dated" - and therefore significantly cheaper. I plan to use this as my main machine for next 3 years at least .
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Have a Burley 5 bay enclosure, e-Sata - where I currently store my image files in a JBOD format.
I'm not all that comfortable with putting together and maintaining a Raid for my image files.
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How would you set things up to keep everything moving quickly and to keep backing up clean, simple and idiot-proof?
Thoughts on how to plan for improvements in the machine in the next 12 months if money becomes available?
Many thanks for any input!

Final Cut Pro/Premiere is at the bottom of the chart of my needs.
I'm much more concerned about:
Lightroom speed, especially ingesting, rendering previews and then displaying images once rendered.
One big question is what is the optimum Graphics card for LR? Would a faster Video card improve LR previews? I spend a lot of time at the end of a shoot ingesting files, editing, developing and editing further. For me, this end of the workflow is where I would love to see performance increases.
Photoshop speed. Fractions of seconds don't matter, even several seconds, but I would like to have real time rendering of Liquify etc when doing beauty retouching.
If I went with the new MacPro, it would probably be the 6-core Mac @ 3.33Ghz. If people are familiar with MacPerformanceGuide, I'm considering their set-up. Any feedback on them would be appreciated.
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An interesting pro photographer endorsement

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