Photography Computer Buyers Guide
Our Computer Buyer's Guide for photographers will help you choose a system that improves your digital darkroom for a faster, smoother photography workflow.
Buyer's Guide 2009: Monitors Upgrade your digital workspace with a high-res LCD display  Buying a monitor for digital photography is one of the most important decisions to make on the computer side of imaging. While a smaller, basic monitor may be fine for web browsing and e-mail, when it comes to digital photography, a large, high-resolution display makes the process a lot easier and more enjoyable. With the monitors we'll suggest here, you'll have room for big images and all your Photoshop tool palettes. |
Buyer's Guide 2008: Ultimate Systems Upgrade the core of your digital darkroom for a faster, smoother photography workflow  With the Windows Vista and Mac Intel transitions behind us, now is a pretty safe time to consider replacing an aging computer, no matter which platform you prefer. Ample RAM for most photographers' needs is affordable, and many off-the-shelf systems boast solid digital-imaging specifications. |
Buyer's Guide 2008: Displays Dramatically improve your efficiency and enjoyment of digital darkroom work with a big, bright LCD  Thinner, brighter and more affordable than ever, LCDs continue to make major strides, delivering outstanding image quality without budget-busting price tags. Compared to now antiquated CRTs, LCDs produce noticeably brighter, sharper-looking images, use half (or less) as much power and take up far less desk space while delivering larger screen sizes. |
Buyer's Guide 2007: Ultimate Systems Speed through digital darkroom work with these powerful computers  If progress bars and spinning hourglasses are choking the fun out of your digital darkroom work, it may be time to upgrade your system. You can usually get a significant increase in performance by adding more RAM and a faster hard drive, but sometimes that's not enough. |
