This is a pretty good review of how the new MacBook Pros compare to older machines for importing and exporting out of Lightroom, Capture One and Photoshop. You can skip to about the 17:00 mark to get right to the testing.
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M1 Pro Review for Photographers
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I'm looking forward to his review of the M1 Pro Max and the 32GB machines.
I bought a 14" with M1 Pro and 32GB for my personal photography machine (not here yet, no thoughts to share) and it wasn't great to hear about his display calibration issues with the built-in display. Would be nice if apple allowed for creation of display presets with ICC profiles at the very least. I think I'm ok with just working around this limitation as most of my serious editing will still happen on an external display but without custom calibration the machine will never fulfill my dream of a mobile editing machine that is pretty much just as strong as my desktop.
So frustrated with the crappy SD card reader in the MBP 14" M1 Pro that I am returning mine. A pro machine should be able to read an SD card at least as well as the Apple dongle does. They basically replaced one gimmick for another (touchbar for SD reader).
According to this support doc, it does support all those modes and calibration: https://support.apple.com/en-ca/HT210435
As of now Apple will not allow loading a custom ICC profile for the in-built display, which is a significant issue for photographers (or any visual artists) who use colorimeters to calibrate their displays. It's a major issue on a machine that purports to be "pro," as it means the inbuilt screen is not as accurate as it should be for "pro" work.
I bought the computer mostly for photography use. The MBP M1 Pro SD card reader is roughly 1/5th the speed of the $39 USB-C dongle that Apple sells and is so slow that several SD cards can't be read at all.
They should not have put it back in if they were going to do it half assed like they did.
May I also recommend Paul Reiffer’s review:
https://www.paulreiffer.com/2021/10/supercharged-for-photographers-the-new-16-inch-m1-max-apple-macbook-pro/
https://www.paulreiffer.com/2021/10/supercharged-for-photographers-the-new-16-inch-m1-max-apple-macbook-pro/
It reads at UHS 2 speeds which is up to 312mb/s. Is that too slow for you? lol
the faster speeds are more important on the write not read.
Actually it doesn't. Lol.
Yes, 22MB/s is too slow for me. Lol.
And it is also too slow for the computer to even recognize a card larger than 64GB. Lol.
Also, I'm not writing with the MBP, I'm reading the card. I don't take photos with my MBP. Lol.
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He makes a subtle point how the MBP works well as a second monitor. I find it super bright and clear. Im able to read notes and slack clearly on it when Im working on my bigger monitor.
Don’t further embarrass yourself..
Your card sucks. Buy a faster one.
Yep, I use cfexpress now. Would have loved the SD slot to be USB-A, would have been much more useful for me. Ironic that so much of the celebration about these new machines has been about the ports but in reality I'm down one useful port from before.
I tend to agree buy better cards. Yesterday I transferred about a dozen full size RAW images of my colleagues dressed up for our costume party that I took with my Nikon D500. It took less than a second to import those files into Lightroom. I will be doing a bigger test tomorrow or Monday(Nov 1) as I will be doing pictures for my church at our trick or treat event at 6 different block parties in our community so I will test it taking those RAW files off the SD card with my 16” M1 Max with 32GB of Ram. So I’m curious to see what the transfer time will be because I know taking about 1200 pics from my CFExpress with my i9 MBP 16 from 2019 would take upwards of 10 minutes at times
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Reads my 128gb Card just fine and fast. Transferred over 1k raw files from a recent wedding with ease.
Please do not insult his one dollar bargain bin card from Walmart.
There is a definite issue with the SD card slot. I have tried about a dozen cards in the SD slot (Samsung, Sony and Sandisk), some work and some don't. All work perfectly via a dongle.
I discovered these people also have an issue:
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I discovered these people also have an issue:
14" and 16" M1 Pro SD Card Slot Problems
Anybody else having issues with the SD card reader on the new MBP? I have several SD cards that the MBP does not recognize but when using Apple's USB-C SD Card reader with the same cards the MBP recognizes them no problem. Any ideas?
forums.macrumors.com
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I suggest those that think their SD slot is fine, test it more throughly with all your SD cards. Better to find out now if you have an issue, than later when you really need it. Easiest way is to use the Blackmagic disk speed test. Should get 200+MB/s for UHS-II cards, and about 80MB/s for other cards. I am finding read speeds in particular are an issue (sometimes zero).
As I say, I have no problems with any cards using a separate SD card reader via a dongle, so the issue is not with the cards, it is with the SD slot. Some cards work OK in the SD slot, some do not, so just testing one card does not mean anything.
As I say, I have no problems with any cards using a separate SD card reader via a dongle, so the issue is not with the cards, it is with the SD slot. Some cards work OK in the SD slot, some do not, so just testing one card does not mean anything.
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