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Low spec notebook for Photo Organisation (alien.top)
submitted 10 months ago by spoof1426@alien.top to c/photography@viewfinder.pro
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Hi there!

I am looking for a software for a low spec notebook that I can use when traveling for organising photos from my camera. I basically just want 2 things for the low spec device:

  • Backup photos ( .RAF files from my Fuji X-S10 with 55 MB per photo).
  • Rate photos (1-5 stars) in a way that I can use the ratings in Lightroom afterwards on my Mac, without using Lightroom itself on the low spec device

After I return home from traveling I want to:

  1. import photos to Lightroom and convert them to .DNG
  2. use the star ratings I previously set on the low spec device in Lightroom

Does anyone have an idea which software to use on a low spec device? Ideally it’s a free software.

Thanks and kind regards

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[–] zrgardne@alien.top 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Fast will let you cull and burn rating into the metadata and then see that in LR

https://www.fastrawviewer.com/

[–] spoof1426@alien.top 1 points 10 months ago

Thank you!

[–] ido-scharf@alien.top 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

You can try Adobe Bridge.

[–] spoof1426@alien.top 1 points 10 months ago

Thank you!

[–] RevTurk@alien.top 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

If you have a lightroom license you can also use bridge.

I have a low spec laptop that I used for more or less the same thing when I was in Spain, it was nothing more than a glorified back up drive. As long as you don't want to do any editing and aren't in a rush you don't need anything special. I ran lightroom on the laptop, it struggled but it did the job.

I can't even tell you the spec for the laptop, it was a refurb bought at work for €500 about 4 years ago and I bought it from the company for something like €200. So it was never anything special.

[–] spoof1426@alien.top 1 points 10 months ago

Thank you!

[–] MusicallyIntense@alien.top 1 points 10 months ago

I have the same camera and you can choose to shoot lossless compressed to help the whole process and use Capture One for Fuji to edit. It's really light, I think, and it's free. Give it a try.