This is part of the reason I switched to Capture one. Problem solved, that is as long as I can live with the extra space and time it takes to ingest both raws and jpgs. Single thumb shows in PM labeled as arw+jpg. I might have answered my own question by experimenting with the a7rIII. Has anyone specifically done this? If so, what do you have to do differently? Haven't experimented yet with Sony RAW+JPEG files & PM to see if there is a solution that will still allow dealing with the RAWs while using the JPGs for sharpness review. Up to this point PM has been the perfect solution. This all has to occur within a 7-9 minute period. The workflow is: ingest only tagged photos (approx 50) while applying specific info to IPTC, verify sharpness and then crop each, export to ACR for automated processing then final export of jpg to a thumbdrive. I'm in a unique position that requires only one process for processing all cards from both Canon and potentially Sony A9's. Great product.Īppreciate the feedback guys. FRV does 80 - 90% of what PM can do (and it's perfect for reviewing), and also at the speed of light, but only costs ca. I used to use PM but when the price went up I looked for alternatives. The embedded JPEGs are useless for determining image quality. I’ve been doing the same thing-shooting RAW+JPEG-since I started using Photo Mechanic with Sony cameras years ago. I want to make my decisions with the sharpest and fastest loading image and that's going to be a big jpeg. My workflow is to cull through the RAWs, delete the rejected RAWs and then bulk delete the jpegs.įWIW: With my A7R3 I shoot raw+jpeg and utilize the jpegs for culling in PM. My solution with LR is that I shoot RAW+Jpeg and LR then shows me the large jpg as the "embedded" preview when I have RAW files selected as I cull the images. With that I can confirm the embedded jpeg is too small to do proper culling. I haven't worked with PM on the A9 files.but I do use LR and use Embedded previews to do culling (which is the exact same thing as what PM is doing). Has anyone worked with PM & the A9 that can shed some light on this? PM is an essential part of my workflow so not having a decent jpg for sharpness review would be a deal breaker for me in deciding to possibly move from Canon to Sony A9 for sports work. Makes culling fast.I've read that the jpg's embedded in the A7R-III raw files are of very low quality to use for judging sharpness via PM. I have FastStone set so that a single stroke of the delete key sends a non-keeper directly to the recycle bin. It won't give you any information about the RAW file like FastRawViewer but the price is right. You will actually be viewing the JPG embedded in the RAW file so it works very fast. Review the images on the memory card or import them and cull using FastStone. If your operating system is Windows then download the free FastStone Image Viewer and Editor. Out of camera JPGs won't show you this - the exposure is part of what is changed in producing the JPG.Ĭan you assign stars too? Will it move photos with so many stars in a different directory for later import? You review the images on the memory card.įastRawViewer is very nice software that allows you to cull images and to see the actual RAW data so you can really tell if you overexposed or underexposed. I have seen a couple suggestion to use the faster FastRawViewer app to cull photos before import, so:Ģ- culling them is faster, simply because FastRawViewer is fast. (even from my internal SSD to speed up the process) I am shooting with a Sony A7R3 and the RAW files are about 85MB.ġ- Importing all those big files takes a lot of time.Ģ- And then, culling them also takes a lot of time, because my software needs a couple seconds to show everyone of them (on my computer). The program has many options and you can set the keyboard shortcuts to your liking and workflow. Trash images stay on SD card and the card is formatted in camera (after making 2 copies ) Want to save images to a different folder or create a new folder, press the letter K again. On next "keeper image", press the letter C, and the image is copied to the previous folder chosen or created. You can choose an existing folder or create a new folder. I press the letter K on my first "keeper image" and I get a file dialog, asking me where I want to save the image. Install SD card into computers built in reader. I use it on Nikon raw NEF files of approx 28MB. Pretty sure it can do all you mentioned, though I do not assign stars in my workflow, and I'm not on that computer at the moment. But how does it work in practice? How do you FastRawViewer for that? Can you assign stars too? Will it move photos with so many stars in a different directory for later import?
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