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Finally, I timed an export of 110 JPEGs, original size, quality set at 80, to the same hard drive. I also looked for any lag time loading individual photos. I timed how long to add the photos to a catalog and generate a standard preview. Instead, we looked at the time it took to copy those 110 photos from the external hard drive to a catalog. The speed of copying photos from an SD card is largely hardware-based. While I’m sharing my experience, times won’t be exact on other machines.

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The original files were stored on a portable LaCie external hard drive via USB 3.

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These programs were run on a 2015 MacBook Pro running Big Sur with 16 GB of RAM. Speed varies based on several different factors. I did not test the speed of editing tools, which are typically brief enough to be difficult to time accurately. I focused on culling rate: testing importing, building previews, and exporting.

To test each photo editor’s speed, I worked with roughly 6 GB of data – 110 RAW files from the Nikon D850. The other four are photo editors with RAW digital asset management built-in: Adobe Lightroom, Capture One, DxO PhotoLab, and Luminar 4. Out of those five, one is a photo browser designed only for the culling process without editing tools: Photo Mechanic Plus. I timed five popular culling programs and photo editors. I focused on the importing, culling, and exporting process and briefly looked at the time required to load individual images. Watching photos upload is the photography equivalent to watching paint dry, but timing the process helped illuminate which programs offered the most culling speed. I speed tested several programs to find the fastest photo editors. But, can a specific photo editor speed up the culling process? Importing can take several minutes, even hours, with large uploads.

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Slow software only makes the tedious task worse.

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For over 20 years and counting, Photo Mechanic remains the go-to software for professional photographers around the world.When you need to get from shoot to published the fastest, which photo editor excels at culling, importing, and exporting?īetween the shoot and the edit is the cull - the dreaded time spent sitting behind the computer, sifting through photos for keepers. Photo Mechanic isn’t just for photojournalists its speed and organizational tools now help all professional photographers work faster and more efficiently. Because everyone in the photojournalism business used IPTC standards, Dennis also became an accidental expert on metadata, incorporating tools like batch captioning and variables in Photo Mechanic to simplify and expand the application and usage of metadata in photography. Taking all that he had learned, assisting photo editors in the tense environment of major global sporting events, Dennis released the first version of Photo Mechanic in February 1998. Interestingly, he implemented RAW exposure compensation before Kodak did for their own cameras, earning him an award from the NPPA for his contributions.

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Dennis initially focused on image quality issues such as color artifacts and high ISO noise-reduction, creating Photoshop filter plug-ins to solve these difficult problems.Īfter attending several photojournalism workshops and seeing the woes of workflow at professional football’s biggest game, Dennis realized that the biggest contribution he could make to digital photography besides image quality was to improve the selection and editing process, which at the time was (to use a technical term) rather “clunky.”ĭennis continued to create Photoshop plug-ins that improved image quality by using new RAW processing algorithms and advanced image filtering techniques. He then started working with digital pioneers, Kodak and Minolta, to vastly accelerate the RAW processing and image quality of their early attempts at digital cameras for working professionals. Prior to founding Camera Bits, Dennis worked in the field of neural networks and was co-author of the award winning game Dungeon Master. He started the company in 1996 after his initial exposure to digital photography at his previous job showed him a need for improved image quality and workflow solutions. Dennis Walker is the President and Founder of Camera Bits.