
Whilst I don’t use them often, my iPhone is the one camera that I always have with me. I’m looking for camera/lens support, and whilst my Sony’s are all well covered, I’m still annoyed by the complete neglect of modern smartphones. Yeah, it’s clear that different parts of the community are pulling in different directions.
DXO PL 5 UPDATE
You’d love to upgrade for performance but are also locked out despite a very powerful graphics card on board.įor a company which wants a wider market share and more update revenue, DxO isn’t going about it very well.


I don’t worry about the performance increases as PhotoLab 4 is plenty fast and wouldn’t care if PhotoLab 5 didn’t get most of the performance improvements as long as I got the other features. The half-baked DAM/library/metadata functions don’t interest me at all but at least they can be turned off (so they are not a negative).īasically I’m clamouring to upgrade and locked out, despite my main computer running a recent OS (OS X 10.14). I’m extremely interested in U-points turning into proper luminance and chroma masks and would also like Fuji X-Trans support. It’s ironic that apart from export performance you don’t find the features in PhotoLab 5 compelling enough to upgrade. Useful enough when I’m away from home to warrant an upgrade, if the price had been right, but I don’t crunch enough images on my laptop to warrant paying to make my desktop machine slower. That could be useful enough when I’m away from home to warrant an upgrade, if the price had been right, but I don’t crunch enough images on my laptop to warrant paying to make my desktop machine slower. The sad part is, my laptop actually contains a 2060, so that would probably see a performance uplift to be roughly on par with my desktop, if DxO’s estimated numbers are in the ballpark. Out of interest, I decided to see how much it would cost to get a modern card with roughly the same level as performance as the 1080Ti, and the answer is basically “what I paid for the 1080Ti on launch day, four and a half years ago”. I would actually like an upgrade for my main rig, but that’s just not feasible at the moment when availability is pretty much non-existent, and prices are through the roof.

The timing really couldn’t be worse, given the state of the GPU market.
DXO PL 5 SOFTWARE
pure software optimization on the same hardware? Unfortunately, it’s a step back for those of us who are still on the older generations of GPU. It’s probably worthwhile in the long run, as who wouldn’t want a 50% performance bump via. I reckon the old PL4 code path was probably about as optimal as it could be on the older GPUs, and that the newer code path probably takes advantage of features that are only available on the newer hardware wherever possible, at the expense of a minor efficiency loss on the older cards.
