Any computer geeks out there?
Really, 8Gb should be ample for photo work, but once you run a few programmes together it can add up. Your issue sounded more like a graphics bottleneck, not a RAM problem.
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16Gb is the best figure, plenty of performance potential without unnecessary overkill and needless expense.
Really, 8Gb should be ample for photo work, but once you run a few programmes together it can add up. Your issue sounded more like a graphics bottleneck, not a RAM problem.
would agree with this... if your most demanding tasks are photography related you are unlikely to need more than 16GB
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PS I had thought there would be the old models at bargain prices but there is only about a £200 saving so not realistic.
16GB is + £180 and 32GB is + £540, double that for 64GB, so I think that settles it!
Stuart..
I only have an i5 model and it handles Lightroom fine. I do find the hard drive to be a bit of a bottleneck when exporting a large batch of images.
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My current machine runs at 4GB which is fine most of the time but when I tried stitching 5 images together in a panorama it really struggled; likewise when processing a pixel-shift image in Lightroom. This is because the RAW images from the K1 are around 42Mb each and a pixel-shift about 150 Mb. I would like the option of more multiple image stitching and maybe try focus stacking; I had wondered what a multiple pixel-shift image would be like but maybe that would be unrealistic and not something I would try more than a couple of times. So, my question to anyone who knows a bit more about computers is what RAM level would be appropriate - 8, 16, 32 or 64GB? I know for safety I should go for the highest but that comes at a cost and maybe implicates operational life and I am not editing the next Hollywood blockbuster, so any ideas?