Paul Caldwell
New member
I have downloaded the trial of Lightzone and after working with a a few days, I run into a few questions.
I am running this on a 2.13 Core duo Intel machine, with 2GB of ram, (laptop). XP
When you open the program and then browse a folder for images (this is very straight forward) all seems OK. But after you have selected an image to convert it really seems to slow down. For example after I have selected an image from the browser, moved to the edit screen and made my edits, when I go to file==convert, then the program take IMO way too long to process the conversion as long as 2 to 3 minutes and this is only on one file. When the conversion is done and you then select the browser tab, Lightzone saves the file (not sure what this is doing, as I already sat through a long conversion process) but the saving takes just as long. I have also noted that if I name the file on the conversion screen, after the file is convert and I look it up, my naming is not there only the base raw file name with the lzn added. These are all 1ds MKII raw files.
I normally use Capture One and it performs fine on this machine no dragging or slow conversions.
I checked the memory slider in Lightzone and gave it 1GB of total ram, but it made no diff. Also in my experience conversion are more processor intensive than memory and I verified this in task manager when running a lightzone conversion.
Not trying to be negative, just can't imagine any program running as slow as this and also have such a redundant step (conversion) and then saving again to move back to the browser.
Thanks
Paul Caldwell
I am running this on a 2.13 Core duo Intel machine, with 2GB of ram, (laptop). XP
When you open the program and then browse a folder for images (this is very straight forward) all seems OK. But after you have selected an image to convert it really seems to slow down. For example after I have selected an image from the browser, moved to the edit screen and made my edits, when I go to file==convert, then the program take IMO way too long to process the conversion as long as 2 to 3 minutes and this is only on one file. When the conversion is done and you then select the browser tab, Lightzone saves the file (not sure what this is doing, as I already sat through a long conversion process) but the saving takes just as long. I have also noted that if I name the file on the conversion screen, after the file is convert and I look it up, my naming is not there only the base raw file name with the lzn added. These are all 1ds MKII raw files.
I normally use Capture One and it performs fine on this machine no dragging or slow conversions.
I checked the memory slider in Lightzone and gave it 1GB of total ram, but it made no diff. Also in my experience conversion are more processor intensive than memory and I verified this in task manager when running a lightzone conversion.
Not trying to be negative, just can't imagine any program running as slow as this and also have such a redundant step (conversion) and then saving again to move back to the browser.
Thanks
Paul Caldwell