HawaiianEye
Member
- Joined
- Nov 7, 2013
- Messages
- 80
- Location
- Maui, Hawaii
- Lightroom Experience
- Advanced
- Lightroom Version
- Lightroom Version Number
- Lightroom Classic 8.4.1
- Operating System
- Windows 10
Since I first started using Lightroom, ( ver 5 ) I bought into the reasoning of converting to DNG.
I do not refer to "buying in" as bad. I mean choosing / deciding.
Any fears ( not concerns ) discussed in the choice, of not using DNG, I still believe are based on just that; Fear.
Stating my thoughts on this, does not open this thread to a discussion on "whether or not".
My decision is based on what time I need to spend, and the space being taken up.
As a regular DNG user, I have no fear of deciding to switch to just NEF images either.
So as of yesterday, I am trying out NEF straight into Lightroom, and see what the difference is.
I have a sign with DNG with red circle and slash posted above my monitor.
But, here is the 1st questionable surprise:
In my simple workflow, I create in my dedicated HHD under "Images", a new folder that contains
the property address, and date. ( Yes, I do real estate photography, here on Maui. )
After downloading my raw files to that folder, I used to the use Lightroom to import and convert to DNG, in the same folder as the NEFs.
Of course Lr would put the new DNGs in their own separate folder within the NEF's folder.
Later, I needed to go through all my many, many Lr folders and delete the NEFs, leaving behind the DNGs. This opened up much space.
All my images are backed up to several exterior backup drives, that are only attached to PC, during backup.
So the unexpected happened with my 1st attempt to use only NEFs.
After following my prescribed workflow, I imported the NEFs into Lightroom without copying as DNGs.....
WAIT A MINUTE! In writing this, I just noticed I was gonna say, " and Copied them to folder without changing..."
My question was gonna be; "How come I got another folder of NEFs inside my NEF folder, just like DNGs, that I now have to delete?" LOL!
OK, it seems in order to do what I want to do, with less deleting of copied files is ADD photos to catalogue without moving them.
So, there's the new question. Does this make sense to the experts on board? i.e. "ADD".
Please note: DNG conversion of approx. 300 raw nefs, used to take around an hour, on an older i5, and 32 GB ddr3 system.
I built a new computer, i7 8700, 32GB ddr4, RTX 2060 6GB ddr6, plus many upgrades.
My Lightroom DNG conversion now takes about 30 seconds for the same.
SO, workflow time, and diskspace, and time to manage diskspace and extra folders produced, are the reasons I am trying NEFs only.
Otherwise, if this is a huge fail, I will post my shipwreck.
Mahalo! Coe Burnett Photography
I do not refer to "buying in" as bad. I mean choosing / deciding.
Any fears ( not concerns ) discussed in the choice, of not using DNG, I still believe are based on just that; Fear.
Stating my thoughts on this, does not open this thread to a discussion on "whether or not".
My decision is based on what time I need to spend, and the space being taken up.
As a regular DNG user, I have no fear of deciding to switch to just NEF images either.
So as of yesterday, I am trying out NEF straight into Lightroom, and see what the difference is.
I have a sign with DNG with red circle and slash posted above my monitor.
But, here is the 1st questionable surprise:
In my simple workflow, I create in my dedicated HHD under "Images", a new folder that contains
the property address, and date. ( Yes, I do real estate photography, here on Maui. )
After downloading my raw files to that folder, I used to the use Lightroom to import and convert to DNG, in the same folder as the NEFs.
Of course Lr would put the new DNGs in their own separate folder within the NEF's folder.
Later, I needed to go through all my many, many Lr folders and delete the NEFs, leaving behind the DNGs. This opened up much space.
All my images are backed up to several exterior backup drives, that are only attached to PC, during backup.
So the unexpected happened with my 1st attempt to use only NEFs.
After following my prescribed workflow, I imported the NEFs into Lightroom without copying as DNGs.....
WAIT A MINUTE! In writing this, I just noticed I was gonna say, " and Copied them to folder without changing..."
My question was gonna be; "How come I got another folder of NEFs inside my NEF folder, just like DNGs, that I now have to delete?" LOL!
OK, it seems in order to do what I want to do, with less deleting of copied files is ADD photos to catalogue without moving them.
So, there's the new question. Does this make sense to the experts on board? i.e. "ADD".
Please note: DNG conversion of approx. 300 raw nefs, used to take around an hour, on an older i5, and 32 GB ddr3 system.
I built a new computer, i7 8700, 32GB ddr4, RTX 2060 6GB ddr6, plus many upgrades.
My Lightroom DNG conversion now takes about 30 seconds for the same.
SO, workflow time, and diskspace, and time to manage diskspace and extra folders produced, are the reasons I am trying NEFs only.
Otherwise, if this is a huge fail, I will post my shipwreck.
Mahalo! Coe Burnett Photography