Debian Jessie Beta1 inside an Oracle VirtualBox inside Debian Wheezy (which is the current stable version of Debian Linux and my main desktop):
They really ship XFCE by default, cool. And even RawTherapee 4.1 should make it into Jessie before the freeze (in November or so). At the moment, it’s still 4.0.12 in Jessie and 4.0.9 in Wheezy.
Best things in life are free, aren’t they?
Thanks for viewing.
Gibt es wohl irgendeine Arztsoftware, die unter Linux läuft?
Gute Frage – wahrscheinlich nicht genau die die Ihr braucht oder die Ihr jetzt einsetzt. Aber wie Du vielleicht auch siehst ist in meiner VirtualBox auch ein Win7-Icon zu sehen… 😉 (Ich benutz das quasi ausschließlich für den Olympus Viewer 3 und für ein paar ColorChecker-Tools zur Kamerakalibrierung. Hat den Vorteil daß ich alles Andere wie Surfen, Mails etc. von einem wesentlich sichereren Hostsystem aus tun kann)
It’s been a while since I visited. I now have a full-blown Ubuntu 14.04.01 notebook that I’ve upgraded to 1TB and installed all my software tools. I’m now investigating doing still work with Darktable and video with OpenShot and Cinelerra-CV. Everything else I need (Java, IDEs, C++, office workflow) is taken care of by various open tools.
Going back to photography and video, I’m learning to do all the “work” in camera, leaving me to do just minimal work (crop, watermark, organization) on the notebook. So far I’m very, very pleased.
Welcome back Bill!
And yes, Ubuntu is quite good in its latest release – my wife is using that. Darktable is a bit big in my opinion, I have only 8GB of RAM in my older quad core machine, but otherwise I also like it.
I saw your blog post about doing things in camera, that’s a good workflow in my opinion as well. I also try to get things right in camera as far as possible, but sometimes – like indoors with various different lights – I still tweak the white balance a bit with OV3 (on a virtualized small Windows), and I do give my photos titles and sometimes some other Exif infos (when working with OM lenses for instance) with RawTherapee (on the Linux host).
At the moment I have both of my cameras (E-520 and E-PL5) set onto what Olympus calls “monotone”, and only when it was colour which caught my eye in the first place, I revert that from the raw file later. Otherwise I think that this (pre-) chimping gives me stronger hints on what’s “important” in a picture, it also helps to see luminance info while you’re making a photo.
Would love to try my OM 50/1.4 or my wife’s OM 50/3.5 macro on a Sony A7 to see 1. if focus peaking really helps and 2. if 50mm on a film-sized sensor isn’t something entirely different from 25mm on a (micro) Four Thirds one. I think it would be, and so I’d also be very curious about 80mm on MF and so on… 😉
Thanks for visiting again Bill. Take care, and have a good time.
Thank you Wolfgang.
With regards to focus peaking, I tried that with my OM 1.4/50mm mounted via adapter on my NEX 5N years ago, and I was not impressed. Perhaps it is significantly better on the newer α7 cameras, but I’m not willing to spend that kind of money to find out.
Just installed Raw Therapee from their repository (version 2.4). It has changed quite a bit since the last time I went looking. And startup is blazing fast. It’s definately worth another look.
My experience with focus peaking on my Sony SLT A37 is that it is helpful if you have a deep depth of field. You can then use it to prevent losing time focussing when that is difficult int he dark for example.
Whenever I use a 50 1.7 lens, I use the live view zoom instead of focus peaking to focus manually. Focus peaking marks me a range that is so deep that I can determine where it is sharp. That resulted in me missing the focus.
I have never used it on an A7 though…