Computers and photography used to be my 2 main hobbies. However, I no longer have the time or money for both, so I let computers go 7 or 8 years ago to concentrate on photography. I did search for a similar thread, but nothing came up.
With the help of the wonderful members here, I successfully built my last machine about 5 years ago, and am still using it. It has been rock steady, but is not fast enough to handle the larger files of my Canon 40D, (10 megs each), if I'm doing panoramas or focus stacking, or a number of other things that require working with up to 10 files simultaneously. And I may be getting an 18 meg camera with hd video next year...
I'd like to build it in the next month or so, and I'm in the US and would prefer to buy everything at the same time and from the same source - probably newegg. My budget is roughly $1000
I have a great NEC monitor, a keyboard and mouse, and a graphics tablet. So what I need is a case and the components. I'm also not sure if I should go with Vista 64 bit or Win7, (XP pro now). I installed a 1.5 tb Samsung hd recently to hold my photo files that I will move to the new case. Should I also get a blu-ray dvd recorder since my next camera will have hd video? And to show my ignorance, should I do a raid 1 or 0, or just keep the 1.5 tb for photos.
If I have left out any info needed, please let me know. I'll wait to respond in case there is more than one question I need to answer.
Thanx in advance for any help.
Here is a link to some of my photos if anyone wants to see what I do.
Ron
With the help of the wonderful members here, I successfully built my last machine about 5 years ago, and am still using it. It has been rock steady, but is not fast enough to handle the larger files of my Canon 40D, (10 megs each), if I'm doing panoramas or focus stacking, or a number of other things that require working with up to 10 files simultaneously. And I may be getting an 18 meg camera with hd video next year...
I'd like to build it in the next month or so, and I'm in the US and would prefer to buy everything at the same time and from the same source - probably newegg. My budget is roughly $1000
I have a great NEC monitor, a keyboard and mouse, and a graphics tablet. So what I need is a case and the components. I'm also not sure if I should go with Vista 64 bit or Win7, (XP pro now). I installed a 1.5 tb Samsung hd recently to hold my photo files that I will move to the new case. Should I also get a blu-ray dvd recorder since my next camera will have hd video? And to show my ignorance, should I do a raid 1 or 0, or just keep the 1.5 tb for photos.
If I have left out any info needed, please let me know. I'll wait to respond in case there is more than one question I need to answer.
Thanx in advance for any help.
Here is a link to some of my photos if anyone wants to see what I do.
Ron