Can you believe what you read?

Can you believe what you read on the Internet?

A photography teacher from a “famous” teaching workshop wrote a blog post on how to speed-up Lightroom. His recommendations were:

• “Get a high speed video card.” Neither Lightroom LR1 - LR2 - LR3 or LR4 do not support or use any high speed video card. Lightroom will run at the same speed (almost) with a high speed video card or a slower/older video card. There will be some minor speed improvements, mostly the speed of display of the menus which are controlled by the “Windows” part of the OS. Photoshop CS5 and CS6 do support high speed video cards and will use them for all their screen operations.
• “Get 16 Gb of RAM to improve the speed of Lightroom.” I have a catalog with 143,00 photos. Windows 7 (64 bit), it tops at 2 gig of memory when the catalog is loaded. To go past the 4 gigabytes of RAM that comes standard with most PCs, you will need a catalog with at least 500,000 photos and hundreds of thousands of virtual copies.

Recently, somebody wrote a blog post that claims that if the Canon 5DMk3 has an SD card in it, the camera will be extremely slow and everybody with a camera blog repeated it, sometimes with the attribution, sometimes without the attribution.

It turns out that there is a menu item that allows you select which memory card is the “primary” memory card. The speed of the 5DMk3 depends on the currently used memory card, there is even a menu item for that. Then “everybody else” started repeating that you can’t use the 5DMk3 with the SD card in the camera or the world, as we know it, would come to an end just like the “Mayan calendar predicted.”