Digital BW, The Print

> From: George Hartzell [mailto:hartzell@...]
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> The monitor and calibration tools you use will make a *big* difference
> in the quality of the work that you're able to produce.  The
> hot-rodded CPU and big RAM, etc.... won't have any effect on the
> quality of what you're doing, just the speed at which you can do it.
> If you're working on 4000dpi scans from 35mm film, you could certainly
> buy a simpler machine and it'd still feel like an amazing upgrade from
> the box you've been using.  Upgrading components in the box itself
> will be easy going forward, and prices will only keep dropping....

I would disagree only about one thing: when you're editing large images,
having a ton of RAM makes a _huge_ difference in the usability of the
system, much more so than any other single factor. But you're right about
CPU speed, disk speed, video card speed--not worth spending a lot of money
on for photo editing.

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Ciao,               Paul D. DeRocco
Paul                mailto:pderocco@...