Whether or not the sharpening results being better is worth moving away from LR for, is very questionable. So that may be a point against using it, since one would have to rely on 3rd party noise reduction, and the point is to keep the workflow as simplified as possible, IMO. I output and finished noise reduction in LR. tends to produce more noisy results, and that is not helped by the built in noise reduction. Also, by default, sharpening although better. I can honestly say that SP7 does indeed produce better sharpness results, so long as you know which algorithm to use out of the several available. In any case, I've done some testing and, to the best of my ability, I've managed to get some pretty decent results. I sort of expected that going into the trial. And because of that, and the lack of actual presentation examples, you're left trying to figure out how something works, that you may not even care about or need. You're left guessing at what they mean with some of their terminology a lot of the time. I can at times almost forgive the fact that whomever did their proof-reading and editing either wasn't paid and didn't care, or that they simply stink at their job. Honestly, have you actually looked at any of their documentation? It's horrendous in terms of terminology. I'd say it now is as good as Capture 1 v9 in this area. Highlight recovery since Silkypix Pro6 is done with a special setting of the HDR function, a feature that has been further developed in Pro7. It is a bit technical, but this is the stuff a photographer has to know these days. They will run either the AHCI or NVMe "blade" SSD. For older MB, there are affordable PCIe 4x cards that plug into your computer's 4xPCIe slot. This m.2 4x PCIe drive is roughly 4 times faster than a standard SSD Sata III in real world I/O. Second SSD is the latest Samsung 951 500gb m.2 4x PCIe NVMe that runs Silkypix temp and image data files. The heart of the storage system is one standard (for Mac) AHCI 120gb SSD for the boot drive and general temp files. No backup, you will eventually loose them. There is also separate backup system, a critical feature if preserving images. The rest of my system uses a total of 4TB standard 3.5 Disk Drives, but at some point when these need replaced, it will be with SSD. It now is running Clover/Yosemite 10.10.5. Last year I built my second Hackintosh, a z97 board with Intel 4790k and 16mb. I am not sure where Microsoft is with their Windoz 10 software and this technology, but Linux or Mac OS X are working today. If buying today, it is worthwhile to educate yourself about the new SSD M.2 PCIe standard, currently available as 2x or 4x PCIe lane configurations. In the past year, these new M.2 4x SSD are ~3 to 4 times faster than the conventional SSD, as well. Any SSD will greatly improve Silkypix processing speed if images and temp files are running from it. The trick is lots of ram and the latest SSD setup. M.2 PCIe SSD connectivity and NVMe SSD data protocol are replacing spinning disk drives in power PC configurations. They felt new advances in SSD M.2 AHCI and NVMe would greatly improve processing speeds in the near future. I asked Silkypix last year if they ever considered using graphics (card) acceleration. An 8 virtual core processor such as I7-4790 is 2x improvement over i5 4 core. Equally important for speed is to put the images and the temp files directory on a good SSD (solid state drive). It allows you to save those settings or write them to a profile file. It remembers from session to session the settings you have given any image. It will even retain all JPG, unless you deliberately over write them. It is also about impossible modify source files with this software. Silkypix always reprocesses after every change because some of its adjustments are done sequentially for best results. I have Capture 1 v9, but frankly Silkypix works just fine for me.
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