Agreed. I’m glad these came out before the fast, more expensive machines. I have no intentions of upgrading any time soon.

I have both and use them for completely different things. No production work on the iPad for me. Peripherals are what make the work experience better on a regular computer while iPads are great for consuming video and information wherever you like. There is overlap of course but both have their respective strengths.

The Canon you mention shouldn’t be much different than my setup. The key for speed if you’re using Lightroom is to use Smart Previews. It takes a few minutes to generate them all at once, but it speeds up your workflow significantly.

Lightroom is a hog no matter what. The issue that came up for me was that once I applied a bunch of changes, the application would be slow to switch between images. I use Smart Previews and have it set to always use them instead of the full images and it’s lightening fast now. Well worth the render time. I don’t have any experience with the Portraiture plug-in unfortunately.

@@AndrewVanBeekOttawa Thank your reply, my Macbook Pro M1 will arrive tomorrow, maybe I'll give a few tests with the Portraiture plugin

I stopped printing my using my own printer a few years ago. I can’t be of much help with this.

I honestly don’t know but I would love to try a 4K 120hz monitor.

Every experience that I have ever had with RAM shows that more is better. The same holds for all the initial tests of the M1 Macs where many people returned their 8Gb versions for 16Gb. This of course depends on how much processing you’re doing but for lots of of images, more is better.

HI Guillaume. I don't have experience with either of those with the Mac Mini so I would check with the manufacturers.

i could answer you in one week ... when i'll plug my screens on my M1 !! 😍 thx for your help to decide me to buy it !!!

Good question. I haven’t had a Mini in awhile so I’m not sure what their upgrade schedule is like.

Don't expect any new Mini up till 2025. They are always lazy on the Mini.

@@lovemadeinjapan Apparently next year, but yeah, who really knows! I bought mine a week ago, it's GREAT so far! 16gig with 512 storage.

@@Lexxo777 Getting 10GBit ethernet is more future proof than increasing the SSD imo.

@@lovemadeinjapan 1 Gigabit is plenty fast for my use, i'm already at 320 gb on my 512 SSD too!

I use View Sonic but not for any reason other than they are not expensive.

Mario! Great to hear from you as well! Subbing back!

I went for the 16Gb version.

You can see everything use in this video: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/e51npamUxtDagJ8.html For working I use this exact drive because of the sustained read and write speeds. www.sabrent.com/product/SB-XTMQ-2TB/rocket-xtrm-q-2tb-usb-3-2-thunderbolt-3-external-ssd-sb-xtmq-2tb/

@@AndrewVanBeekOttawa Thank you SO MUCH! The other video and your link here have been super helpful! Really nice to hear from someone who is actively using an M1 Mac Mini about what's actually working! 💜

It’s hard to say since I don’t know how long these same processes take of your machine. What kind of image volumes do you typically have in a session?

@@AndrewVanBeekOttawa I use full Raw at 50 and 36 megapixels

@@anton9038 and how many images would you typically edit at once?

@@AndrewVanBeekOttawa 150-300 the problem arises when the Ram memory ends, loading into the buffer begins and the processor is idle, I'm afraid that for a small amount of memory on m1, the process will take a lot of time

@@anton9038 I find with smaller numbers of photos, it doesn’t make a lot of difference. When you’re dealing with thousands that’s when it’s most important. I’m not convinced there would be enough to warrant a switch. Have you run the benchmarks? One thing that is weird with my M1 is that when I switch from one image to the next in Lightroom and copy the settings from the previous image, it can suddenly be a lot slower than expected. This can get annoying.

I think you that you can get away with using the base configuration but will notice slower performance in cases where you are trying to use a few applications at once. You will also need external storage for backups and to maintain enough space on the 256gb SSD. It really comes down to the volume of photos that you plan to process.

Have a look at this video to see how I configured mine. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/e51npamUxtDagJ8.html

@@AndrewVanBeekOttawa thank you so much!

The speed of the computer will make no difference in the quality of an image. It’s just following the instructions of the software and doing the exact same job.

I agree with what you’re saying but I dislike Windows enough for it to be worthwhile for me.

@@AndrewVanBeekOttawa And there plenty of reasons to not like it, I don't particularly like it either. It's a case of pick your poison I guess

@@bardofhighrenown Exactly. I also have a phone and tablet from Apple so I like how everything works together.

That cost me $2400. It was still better than the $6000+ a similarly equipped Mac would have cost me at the time.

@@AndrewVanBeekOttawa I think that the idea that Macs do not offer value for dollar is over. Your Mini speaks to that. The price/performance curve will improve even further.... It's possible that next generation Macs will significantly outperform future x86 offers by a wide margin. Apple has the high ground in terms "mindshare" regarding the buzz on the lowly M1.... Hopefully they will leverage that and go after AMD and Intel on price at the very high-end. One thing for sure.... x86 Mobile computing already looks like a dead-end along with current "pro" desktops that need liquid cooling, multiple fans, huge power supplies and GPU cards bigger than your head....meanwhile, Apple will probably get rid of the distinction between laptop, desktop and portable processors (look at the new iPad Pro)... all future Apple SoCs will be mobile and devices will be classified by use-case not form-factor.....phew....

@@goobfilmcast4239 all of the same things have been on my mind. Some things still are crazy expensive though. A new M1 iPad Pro fully decked out is over $4000CAD which would be very hard to justify even if it is an amazing device.

If you’re happy with what the D850 can do it camera that’s great. Personally, a photo is only half done after the shutter has been pressed. I had the D850 for 2 years and loved how good the images were but they were still no where near complete in camera. We all photograph different ways and subjects so one size does not fit all.

I'm not that sure anyone can tell the difference from an OOC jpeg that was shot with the right settings and framing from shots that were worked in post, most of the time. Sure, the photographer knows he might want to tweak this or that, but to be honest, I think most people have no clue, they either like an image or not. It is about getting it right in the camera that should usually be the goal. (On the other hand, I kind of like Ken Rockwell's jazzed up OOC stuff for its kind of technicolor feel. So, I may be a minority.) So, I congratulate you on your parsimonious use of time and effort.

You can't? Why not?