For Auto HDR there is about 10 sec for merging into HDR in the camera which is quite acceptable.ĪutoHDR in Canon is quite good for outdoor and dynamic range seems to be much better than with Sony cameras(I compared it with an Auto HDR in a6000). It should be even faster on a 32GB desktop. Raw and jpeg files are big but they still merge in Photomatix quite fast even on a 8GB RAM i7 laptop.
However I'll probably need wide angle EF-S lens for it, otherwise I will get 27-64mm equivalent from my 17-40mm full frame lens if I set my Canon 5ds to a crop size.įrom the other hand I did a lot of bracketed shots and auto HDR with a full frame size the last weekend. I was going to shoot in a cropped version if no big prints were required by a client. You are right, not too much sense because I will have to work with much bigger file sizes than I need. That said, I have made the decision to purchase the new iMac when it comes later this year, a real workhorse for my needs and then use my MacBook as a backup.īoth Aurora and Luminar are good to have in your arsenal but I would recommend that you invest in a good machine first that can handle the workflow comfortably. But those specs are pretty good and this only happens when I use Aurora. There may be other factors causing this, perhaps my machine is getting old. At times whilst I am doing a batch process, Aurora will just shut down unexpectedly and I would have to reboot my Mac to get it to settle down. I've been using Aurora for about a year now and every time I open it up, my machine sounds like a fighter jet taking off on a runway and my Mac gets really hot. For the time it was Apple's top of the line laptop, see the specs below.
I have been using my MacBook Pro Retina 2014 model for all my photo and video editing. Great topic of discussion, glad someone brought this up.
However it may be a processor/ram/gpu dependent. I did not expect so slow performance but after seeing how slow it was I started googling and found a lot of similar complaints. Has anybody ever used Luminar on a windows desktop/laptop and can say it is fast for you?
It is a bit better with Aurora HDR and I cannot complain about a speed of merging AEB shots but installation was also slow(may be 10 minutes). When I watched the videos it was used on Mac computers and I could see it was almost instant and took no more than 1-2 seconds. It is so slow that installation took 30 minutes and just using sky replacement feature takes about 10 seconds minimum.
However after installing its trial on quite a fast laptop I can see that it is awfully slow on my Windows 10 Pro laptop. I was thinking about buying it since with bundle discounts and extra discount codes it will cost about $175 AUD(100 USD) in total. I have found through watching a lot of videos on youtube that Luminar 4 is quite a good photo editing software with some AI capabilities such sky automatic replacement, landscape enhancement and actually can be bundled with Aurora HDR software and it seems to be as good as photomatix HDR. Not giving any links so it does not look like I am promoting this software.