Hi all,
I've been asked for help sorting out a friend's daughters in law's computer setup. She works as a wedding photographer, and currently has a home built windows computer built by her Dad, which is crazy slow, (from what I've heard). My immediate suggestion since she needs a computer quite soon as her current one is driving her crazy was the lower end 27" iMac and whack some more RAM in it. She uses lightroom a lot of the time and this is where we get to the first real question.
My friend is not overly tech savvy and doesn't know anything about her camera equipment or what she shoots in other than using LR. I have however heard that it can take well over a day to transfer the images from her camera to the computer, this drivers her completely crazy as people obviously want their photos quite quickly after their weddings. I would imagine that she's currently shooting in RAW, but not being a photographer myself I don't really know how to speed this process up. She does use a card reader but certainly doesn't have usb 3.
I read a thread about using a seagate go pro sata thunderbolt adaptor with an adaptor for whatever card type she uses to sata. Would this be a viable way of speeding things up?
I can't see how transfers can take anything like as long as they do unless she's taking 500GB+ of photos (is it possible?) or unless for some reason usb 1 is only being used.
She also needs some decent storage for the photo sets as apparently she keeps them forever, which sounds like a TB raid array to me, any recommendations?
TL;DR Question section
1) Is the base 27" iMac (with extra RAM) good for a photographer handling large RAWs? (yes I know the new one is on it's way but the differences won't be enormous other than usb 3 and you lot always say 'if you need a machine, buy one'.)
2) What's the fastest way to get a large number of large photo files from a camera memory card to a hard drive?
3)What's the best way to keep all old photo sets forever more? (What hard drive raid array setup)?
The budget for all this is, as low as possible as I've heard that she doesn't currently have a lot of bookings for next year yet. 3) is very much optional for the moment but I'd like opinions for later on. 2) in conjunction with 1) is the most important.
Many thanks in advance for any advice you may be able to offer.
Chris
I've been asked for help sorting out a friend's daughters in law's computer setup. She works as a wedding photographer, and currently has a home built windows computer built by her Dad, which is crazy slow, (from what I've heard). My immediate suggestion since she needs a computer quite soon as her current one is driving her crazy was the lower end 27" iMac and whack some more RAM in it. She uses lightroom a lot of the time and this is where we get to the first real question.
My friend is not overly tech savvy and doesn't know anything about her camera equipment or what she shoots in other than using LR. I have however heard that it can take well over a day to transfer the images from her camera to the computer, this drivers her completely crazy as people obviously want their photos quite quickly after their weddings. I would imagine that she's currently shooting in RAW, but not being a photographer myself I don't really know how to speed this process up. She does use a card reader but certainly doesn't have usb 3.
I read a thread about using a seagate go pro sata thunderbolt adaptor with an adaptor for whatever card type she uses to sata. Would this be a viable way of speeding things up?
I can't see how transfers can take anything like as long as they do unless she's taking 500GB+ of photos (is it possible?) or unless for some reason usb 1 is only being used.
She also needs some decent storage for the photo sets as apparently she keeps them forever, which sounds like a TB raid array to me, any recommendations?
TL;DR Question section
1) Is the base 27" iMac (with extra RAM) good for a photographer handling large RAWs? (yes I know the new one is on it's way but the differences won't be enormous other than usb 3 and you lot always say 'if you need a machine, buy one'.)
2) What's the fastest way to get a large number of large photo files from a camera memory card to a hard drive?
3)What's the best way to keep all old photo sets forever more? (What hard drive raid array setup)?
The budget for all this is, as low as possible as I've heard that she doesn't currently have a lot of bookings for next year yet. 3) is very much optional for the moment but I'd like opinions for later on. 2) in conjunction with 1) is the most important.
Many thanks in advance for any advice you may be able to offer.
Chris