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I think that sounds like a fair price for a powerful machine that should last you 5 years or so in performance terms. A Mac with that capability will come in at £2-2.5.
I’m no expert on PC logic boards, but telling your builder you want a fast NVMe drive and related should clue him into finding the right board and equivalently fast memory. Ensure there are plenty of USB-C ports.
Enjoy 
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Sorry, I don’t know anything about the R5.
The sports shooters I know question the AF performance of the R3 hypercritically, as one might expect since it’s their job. Hence this Canon R1 puff may be relevant for them, from the London Camera Exchange site:
“The EOS R1 will persistently track subjects in sport scenarios, even when they’'re momentarily hidden from view - for example, when subjects intersect in team sports. The newly developed Action Priority function will automatically detect the main subject performing a specific action (such as shooting a ball) and instantly move the AF frame, allowing photographers to capture key moments.
The combination of the new image-processing system and deep-learning technologies will contribute to improved image quality.”
The R1 and R3 are the equivalent of Naim 500 series gear to me. Stratospheric. My limited interest is knowing they are out there, available.
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Big lump that f/1.4
Yep, cheers.
Will likely pogo for an R5 mk ii when released so with it’s faster cfexpress card ability and new usb 4 readers, I’ll be looking for usb 4 port.
Some always want more. The R6/R5 and R3 have stratospheric performance, but some will always blame the tools. The issue now is the complexity of the cameras and many struggle with that. I do a lot of teaching these days, so understanding the tech and being able to use effectively and explain it is key.
The benefit of the 500 series and similar for me is the trickle down of tech to the more humble Uniti HE, the Super NAITs and similar.
Totally understood. A huge amount of our game is about having confidence in your own ability, whatever you are using.
And yet, and yet… It’s easy to be thrown momentarily by the anecdotal. For instance about a year and a half ago I overheard a celebrated Getty lensman saying, ‘Why am I going to go mirrorless from my Canon 1DX MkIIIs when I have been using Canon 1D cameras since about 2004?’
And in the other direction, a friend who works for PA told me that PA had given their account to Sony. The photographers handed back their Canon DSLRs and each given around £30k to go out and get whatever mirrorless gear they needed from Sony. The news and sports guys chose a 400 and zooms. The features guys wanted more pixels, and chose primes.
for decades I could use any film camera with a mere glance at the instructions - now its all menus and sub menus on digital and every brand different! leica canon nikon mamiya bronica hasselblad were a doddle using film
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That sums it up nicely. I empathise with the Getty guy. Apparently the Sony thing received mixed reactions as their support is not stellar.
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Browsing - Crucial produce a 2Tb NVMe Solid state drive for internal use with speeds ‘upto 5Gbs’ using NVMe (PCIe Gen 4 x4). The model is CT2000P3PSSD801 and its £116 on amazon. It will need the correct motherboard for that performance, but Crucial will guide you on that. I think the PC builder needs to be told exactly what you want - it should be no more expensive than he specc’d.
Yes, that’s true. It doesn’t have the cute charm of many other Fuji lenses. But it is simply incredibly fast and the image quality is very good. Before my photographic abstinence, I shot with a Nikon D70s and a 24-120 VR. Compared to that, even the X-T5 with the 18 mm f1.4 is a real handful.
I have a few Fujifilm lenses. I’m still using my T4 and X100V, but the 16-55mm f/2.8 is hard to beat on the T4. It’s a big lump, but it’s better than carrying four primes. The 90mm f/2 is my second-favorite lens.
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Haven’t got a part detail but the freshly quoted nvme is 7gbps.
Rtx 4060ti required extra cooling and power supply included in pricing. Which is nice.
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All sounding good - as long as motherboard and memory are fast enough, you’re set.
You don’t need a separate high performance graphics card for photo processing, it’s just a waste of money. The CPU is the thing that matters.
It’s explained in the video below. Using the i7 12700 cpu is recommended, using the built in GPU.
It also explains that the when photo processing, the CPU single core performance is what matters and when exporting the file the CPU multicore performance is what matters. This explains why my 10 year old AMD processor with built in GPU works fine when processing, but struggles when exporting.
Checking how my 10 year old PC performs when quickly editing a number of parameter of an 85MB Tiff in DXO3.
The CPU is peaking but not reaching 100%.
The ram usage isn’t increasing.
The GPU ram usage is minimal.
The HDD is busy, but don’t really know whats going there.
That’s why it works perfectly without any lag.
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Exporting the tiff to Jpeg is different story; the CPU quickly reaches 100%. Takes about 10 seconds, but as I’m not exporting hundreds of images in one go, it’s not really a problem.
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It really depends on the editing software and the use of AI tools. The latter require better GPUs than were previously needed. That said, the CPU is the most important component for the majority of photo editing work.
With LrC a fast SSD/MVMe drive for the Catalog (and caches) is also highly beneficial over an HDD.
Worth checking out Puget Systems who have run many benchmarks for LrC and Photoshop.
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There’s some serious photographers on this forum, I doubt they’ll be using AI. 
Apart from initial curiosity.
The minimum GPU recommended for Topaz is 9 years old.
Graphics card can be added at any time, if required.
Cheers for that, I could skimp on the GPU and save anywhere between £170 and £350.
And you’re right I don’t use AI so very much, apart from denoising and ‘quick and easy unplanned object in image’ removing.
Though AI powered masking and learning is going to continue to make life much easier I feel. Yes, on the one hand I think ‘bugger, I’ve spent years learning what is now the work of a button press’, on the other hand, why fight it?
And in my recent research I have seen a number of differing positions including CPU vs GPU etc. and have been trying to weed out vested interests.
However, however given the unknown direction of travel of these things and in a couple of years or so, one way or another this could be part of a retirement biz for me, which means ever more speedy workflow over a couple of 4K screens and as yet unknown customer demands blah de blah would perhaps just need ‘more’ I would prefer to go the overkill route with ‘power’ in reserve as it were. Future proofing, if you like.
Yes, I could retrofit a bigger/better GPU only if properly needed in the future, however in the grand scheme of things I’m saving a few quid on what would by then be a cheaper GPU but with the risk of ‘missing’ not having it in the meantime. And who knows, now that I will have the capability, maybe we become gamers!
Have you edited Raw images with Topaz tools and a minimum spec GPU? I have a 1060GTX. Not quick, but just enough. I wouldn’t want anything slower.
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I agree - best camera I ever had was the Mamiya 7. These days it seems the camera and computer do all the work correcting what the human should have done in the first place. Using film the photographer had to know what he was doing…now not so much.
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