Worse than the first release of v6 ?? Sooo slow
Anybody else suffering the same frustrations?
One week in as a daily user of C1 & is it me or has v7 just gone back 3 years? I've waited to see whether there were other factors at work, but it does appear to be this release. (I'm just using Nikon files - D3x particularly)
I'm finding it incredibly slow & resource hogging and the most annoying part of the 'new' version is that it has gone back to not generating thumbnails in the background, exactly the same problem as the first release of v6 which I complained bitterly about then. So now I have to scroll down the browser (or across depending where you have it) and then wait for the thumbnails to appear. OK, so I'm using Nikon files, not PhaseOne, but I can't believe that they released this as a working version - to me it's hardly beta on the Windows platform. it's almost like the team working on the v7 feature set were working with the v6 beta program!
If PhaseOne make a release for their back users, then release it as the DB version, but if the program doesn't have a good processing engine for third party cameras (like my Nikons) in place, then please get it in place before you release, it just wastes your clients time (we use this for a living if you please) and doesn't engender confidence in your product.
For example, 6.4.4 creates a 100% preview of my D3x files in approximately 2 seconds when I zoom from the full preview, I've just measured 15 seconds in the 'wonderful new processing engine' in v7. Am I missing something? How on earth can I use this geriatric 'upgrade' as a professional tool?
v6.4.4 was a brilliant workflow for me, waiting for this to do it's stuff is just painful.
I'm going back to v6 as the 'benefits' of v7 are nowhere near worth the pain. Hopefully this premature release has filled the PhaseOne R&D bank account so they can pay the team some overtime to get C1 back to where it should be.
Look forward to hearing positive things about 7.1, I just opened up a 600 frame D3x job in 6.4.4 & everything is there ready to use within a minute, whereas v7 with the same fileset is like bicycling underwater...
One week in as a daily user of C1 & is it me or has v7 just gone back 3 years? I've waited to see whether there were other factors at work, but it does appear to be this release. (I'm just using Nikon files - D3x particularly)
I'm finding it incredibly slow & resource hogging and the most annoying part of the 'new' version is that it has gone back to not generating thumbnails in the background, exactly the same problem as the first release of v6 which I complained bitterly about then. So now I have to scroll down the browser (or across depending where you have it) and then wait for the thumbnails to appear. OK, so I'm using Nikon files, not PhaseOne, but I can't believe that they released this as a working version - to me it's hardly beta on the Windows platform. it's almost like the team working on the v7 feature set were working with the v6 beta program!
If PhaseOne make a release for their back users, then release it as the DB version, but if the program doesn't have a good processing engine for third party cameras (like my Nikons) in place, then please get it in place before you release, it just wastes your clients time (we use this for a living if you please) and doesn't engender confidence in your product.
For example, 6.4.4 creates a 100% preview of my D3x files in approximately 2 seconds when I zoom from the full preview, I've just measured 15 seconds in the 'wonderful new processing engine' in v7. Am I missing something? How on earth can I use this geriatric 'upgrade' as a professional tool?
v6.4.4 was a brilliant workflow for me, waiting for this to do it's stuff is just painful.
I'm going back to v6 as the 'benefits' of v7 are nowhere near worth the pain. Hopefully this premature release has filled the PhaseOne R&D bank account so they can pay the team some overtime to get C1 back to where it should be.
Look forward to hearing positive things about 7.1, I just opened up a 600 frame D3x job in 6.4.4 & everything is there ready to use within a minute, whereas v7 with the same fileset is like bicycling underwater...
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I have purchased all versions of CO from 5 to 7 and have found them deficient for reasons already stated in this and other forums. For those interested in saving themselves the aggravation of dealing with this software may I suggest a try at my workflow with IIQ files from an IQ 160 and CR2 files from an EOS 5 III:
• Profile camera using 24 patch ColorChecker Chart and Adobe DNG Profile Editor
• Convert IIQ and CR2 files to DNG using Adobe DNG converter rather than CO, including v7.0
• Open in Camera Raw, apply profile and adjustments. Open in Photoshop or LR.
• Cataloguing and housekeeping with PhotoMechanic
I believe that you will find the tools and output in CR far superior if you profile the camera or back. Without an adequate profile the output from PS will actually fall far behind CO. Of course, tethering is a completely different issue but I still utilize CO for a Phase One DF 645 and DSLR Pro from Breeze Systems for the Canon.
On a related note, the DNG Flat Field Plug-in for Lightroom 4.2 does a fantastic job for LCC including color correction and light fall off.0 -
Thanks for the outline of your workflow, it's not for me I'm afraid.
I LOVE the (relative to your workflow) one-stop C1 v6.4.4 and what it does with my raw files, and I suspect that v7 has some very cool tricks up its sleeve, I'm just grumbling that it is currently desperately slow dealing with my Nikon files (and won't allow me more than 100 spot corrections on a file - a small issue in the scheme of things)
PhaseOne will fix the problem, as they have done with previous releases, I'm just impatient.
Hint. Hint.0
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