Hi forums!
Anyone here uses FreeBSD as photographers workstation? What hardware do you use?
I'm currently in search of laptop for my journeys and, probably, home working with photos too.
What is requested for it:
1) good color reproduction (? google translate, do not know adequate word)
The main point. Cause photos redacted on my home PC have coloring errors, e.g. things I see on monitor are not same with printing photos. After ~5 times mucking up the prints I've managed to see what are the differencies with actual colors and my monitor color reproduction, but that is very, very unhandy, and for another monitor I'll have another differencies, which is even more bad.
2) fast enough harddrive (probably SSD would be a win) plus proccessor, for real-time loading of photos in rawstudio
First editing goes in rawstudio to filter up the good photos and throw out the bad, then main editing is in GIMP, if needed of course. RawStudio takes like ~5-10 seconds to load a photo with my desktop PC. That is not a stopper, but kind of annoying.
Actually I can not understand what is the main thin point there, cause there is 80MB/s SATA hard-drive plus 2.6GHz Athlon proccessor (Athlon x4 620), plus 8GB mem on top of of course 64bit FreeBSD. Photos are 10-25 megs (NEF Raw 12MPx). Some days in journeys/cool events/etc it takes about a 1k photos/day, which is very annoying to sort with delays. Any suggestions here?
3) Good working WiFi.
I used to use 1 laptop with FreeBSD: HP530. In there, there was a 'working' device for WiFi, but in fact it always was somehow kludgy (from time to time I've needed to reconnect for net to work again, plus wifi hardware button did not work) and not opensource (via ndis).
Also, I'm using Nikon D90 cam and I can not get it working in PTP mode. Anyone succeded with it on any Nikons D* cam in FreeBSD? With previous D1X it was also no success. Cardreader is not a problem of course, but PTP support would be nice. Could not give dmesg traceback right now, will be here ASAP.
Could anyone recommend some good device?
Anyone here uses FreeBSD as photographers workstation? What hardware do you use?
I'm currently in search of laptop for my journeys and, probably, home working with photos too.
What is requested for it:
1) good color reproduction (? google translate, do not know adequate word)
The main point. Cause photos redacted on my home PC have coloring errors, e.g. things I see on monitor are not same with printing photos. After ~5 times mucking up the prints I've managed to see what are the differencies with actual colors and my monitor color reproduction, but that is very, very unhandy, and for another monitor I'll have another differencies, which is even more bad.
2) fast enough harddrive (probably SSD would be a win) plus proccessor, for real-time loading of photos in rawstudio
First editing goes in rawstudio to filter up the good photos and throw out the bad, then main editing is in GIMP, if needed of course. RawStudio takes like ~5-10 seconds to load a photo with my desktop PC. That is not a stopper, but kind of annoying.
Actually I can not understand what is the main thin point there, cause there is 80MB/s SATA hard-drive plus 2.6GHz Athlon proccessor (Athlon x4 620), plus 8GB mem on top of of course 64bit FreeBSD. Photos are 10-25 megs (NEF Raw 12MPx). Some days in journeys/cool events/etc it takes about a 1k photos/day, which is very annoying to sort with delays. Any suggestions here?
3) Good working WiFi.
I used to use 1 laptop with FreeBSD: HP530. In there, there was a 'working' device for WiFi, but in fact it always was somehow kludgy (from time to time I've needed to reconnect for net to work again, plus wifi hardware button did not work) and not opensource (via ndis).
Also, I'm using Nikon D90 cam and I can not get it working in PTP mode. Anyone succeded with it on any Nikons D* cam in FreeBSD? With previous D1X it was also no success. Cardreader is not a problem of course, but PTP support would be nice. Could not give dmesg traceback right now, will be here ASAP.
Could anyone recommend some good device?