Computer Build For Coin Photograph Editing

Thats a very good Card. It will last you a while.

I may have been buried in my initial opos but the build was shaped in no small part by the Raw processing application I use: Capture one Pro(10. Its a demanding application in terms of CPU graphics card and Ram. Where Lightroom is happy with a single and dual core CPU, capture one needs a minimum of a 4 core CPU. So I agree with your post. I do most of my editing in capture one and for extra editign of coins I use Photoshop elements 14

With the benefit of hind sight it is now obvious to me that when using a high resolution camera like the Sony A7rii you have to have a monitor with similar resolution. So 4K is a must, 8k would be ideal but for me its a little beyond my budget( but my graphics card can output 8K). I guess that is what led me to starting this post. I had a brilliant camera but did not have the computing and viewing power to take advantage of all that extra resolution. On-line posts of Jpegs just don't give any indication of the true output of the A7rII. I used to get really frustrated when I would see that photos from cheap, antique, APSc DSLRs were looking better than those from the A7rII. Only when I got the 4K screen did I realize that the DSLR photos required much less compression and therefore suffered much less degradation than the pictures from the A7rII. With the Sony A7rII a Jpeg has to be between 5-10% of the original size to be uploaded. The Jpeg is also 8 bit while the original image was 14 bit.

With a 4K monitor there is one further piece of kit you may want to consider. That kit being a monitor calibration tool. It really helps ensure you are seeing the correct colors. I purchased Spyder5pro. As long as you know your monitors controls the Spyder5pro is easy to use. It is the first time I have used a monitor calibration system so I can't give a comparison to other products