Photography Computer Software

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What type of computer systems do the photography industry use?

Operating systems, software, hard drives, monitors, back up systems.

Any and all, we all have our preferences. Personally I prefer a PC, not one from the High Street or Ding Dong Dell which are made down to a price with poor hardware, but one put together by someone who knows what they are doing, then you'll get a machine that will knock the pants off any Mac offering for half the price.

With Mac's your limited to expensive hardware and software, innovative software is always written for the PC first, then, maybe a Mac version will come out. I was using Photomatix Pro (for HDR) for 5 years before a Mac version came out. If your interests are more specialised and you want to try stacking software for Astro or deep depth of field shots you have to use a PC at the moment.

There is a myth that the Mac OS is more stable than PC, and that's exactly what it is a myth, even with their tight controls of hardware and software they do 'freeze' and 'fall over' probably more than an equally well made PC running XP or Windows 7.

I do own two Macs and boy do they exasperate me, you have to go into 4 separate screens to set all the parameters for printing, with Windows drivers all the parameters are in one screen, they keep insisting on reverting back to the 'generic' drivers in the OS even though you have the up to date state of the art driver from the hardware manufacturer, it take a couple of hours for me to tell it different.

Monitors are probably the single most important component, I'm still using a 21" CRT monitor as it gives me a bright colour corrected image with higher resolution than you can get with LCD screens, up to now LED, LCD and even Plasma screens aren't as good - yet, but they are getting there.

Chris

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