Lightroom on M1 Mac Mini - Does it Hold Up!?

[@sjmphotonyc]

Omg. Ken. I had a wonderful time shooting with you. We need to collab again soon. I love what you did with my eyes. Personally I think the M1 still has some way to go until it could be used full time with Lightroom. However I feel all we need is a solid handshake update from either party to make it ready for prime time. Awesome review.

[@WalkLikeAlice]

You didn’t mention the fact that you can’t calibrate an external monitor with silicon macs. That’s a pretty basic requirement for anyone working professional with photography.

[@alinstancu1233]

Now, we can. X-rite updated the software for M1 macs.

[@vivaphotographywirral6779]

Thank you. Ordered the 8Gb, 512Gb. Saved £140 by going to the Apple refurbished shop. Arriving tomorrow.

[@Dimasphotographer]

I am working with 80gb uncompressed raw Sony a7R2 as today… My i5-8250u laptop takes a while to export. Can you test exporting 10pictures at 100% JPEG? Thank you!

[@Kdogpiper]

Thank you for the review. Just what I was looking for. Now, what monitor are you using with this setup. It's been about a year, are you still happy? Thanks!

[@Tassaczek]

Are you testing a speed of LR with only 5 photos? My 8 years old MacBook Pro can do it with pictures from a medium format camera :) Challenge M1 a little bit. Import like a 1000 :)

[@KenTheContentCoachYT]

1000??????????? Broooooo, that’s mucho.

[@Tassaczek]

@@KenTheContentCoachYT I have like 500-600 from each photoshoot. I just do not use import from card option. It is too slow:) Just copy files on the hard drive and import them with the option "add". It is way faster. But the interesting part is how fast you will be able to see previews, change between pictures, edit them, syncing them, etc.

[@KenTheContentCoachYT]

I usually shoot the same amount. But I didn’t want to bore anyone picking photos and such. The video would have dragged so I chose five from each.

[@m1kel]

same id love to see 1000. i do 5000 sometimes :) 5 is only scratching the surface

[@dreamer996]

I agree. I import like 3000 after a wedding day!

[@thatdopedude7217]

So would you recommend this with the xdr display for medium format

[@aradhyagaurangaphotography8070]

I need to work with 100 photos every single day around 50 Mb each, and my hp laptop is hell. Thinking to upgrade into imac 2021. What would be your suggestion please

[@LIGHTISBURNING]

Is 8gb enough for video editing?

[@raywalteroutdoors]

I import 130 photos on average from one afternoon shooting the same waterfall from different perspectives and to be sure I have enough images for stacking. I hit import and walk away for 20 minutes. 2013 Mac Book Pro

[@KenTheContentCoachYT]

#Painnnn

[@kennedypollard467]

Great video, exactly what I was looking for. But what happens when I'm importing 2500 photos and exporting 600 of them? lol thats the real test.

[@pmjon8420]

I would really love to know that too. Especially with the Canon R5 images

[@pieropalominochirinos6018]

It took me for 2600 images 13 minutes to import on the Macmini and 29 seconds on the MacbookPro 2019 i7 The macmini w M1 chip is bad I didnt want to try exporting...

[@Hawtload]

what kind of sony photos? 20MP, 42MP, 60MP?

[@MtnBikerNZ]

Hi Ken. Thanks for the review. Is it possible to calibrate your monitor when running the M1? I am considering the MacbookAir and using my poor old 27” 2010 iMac as the main screen but I want to be able to calibrate both the screens with the ColorMunki. Any ideas?

[@davester1432]

I suggest you verify that your iMac will support that. My old iMac doesn't, and I think it was a 2011. I'd check the year, but it's not in use anymore.

[@gabrielpichardo6690]

Fire review 🔥🔥🔥🔥

[@obscurelines]

2022 and I'm thinking of changing away because my s1r jpegs (not even RAWS!) slows the machine. Also, I really don't think Mac is very intuitive.

[@dugbert9]

did your Mac have 8 or 16gb RAM?

[@KenTheContentCoachYT]

8gb

[@seankerrphotography]

Which Canon camera? I use the 50.6MP 5DS R, which puts a lot more strain on LR.

[@KenTheContentCoachYT]

Canon EOS R

[@KenTheContentCoachYT]

Also, I envy your MP’s.

[@seankerrphotography]

@@KenTheContentCoachYT Yeah the files are fantastic but my 16BG 3.5GHz Dual-Core i7 2017 MacBook Pro is really slow with LR now. I want something quicker but am holding off on the M1 Mac mini as my BenQ SW321C can't be hardware calibrated with it and LR/PS aren't currently running natively on it.

[@KenTheContentCoachYT]

@@seankerrphotography Photoshop now runs natively as of yesterday I believe. Honesty, LR hasn't been slow at all. It feels like it's native. But I would hold on anyway. Apple is likely announcing new hardware in coming weeks.

[@mrwalker967]

I’ve heard that there have been some issues with the M1 chip working with Lightroom and more specifically photoshop. Have you had any issues with either and will both work with the M1 chip?

[@KenTheContentCoachYT]

Both have worked flawlessly for me.

[@mrwalker967]

@@KenTheContentCoachYT I appreciate the reply. Did you have to use Rosetta 2 or were you able to use both Lightroom and photoshop without doing anything special?

[@KenTheContentCoachYT]

@@mrwalker967 I believe Rosetta 2 was used. There is no "pop-up" to show R2 is on. But when you launch the app it takes a few seconds to run. So I'm assuming it's hitting R2 before we get to touch it.

[@mrwalker967]

@@KenTheContentCoachYT I just got the M1 Mac mini yesterday. I had no problems getting Lightroom and photoshop working. The R2 download the first time I used PS. Thank you again for your help.

[@KenTheContentCoachYT]

@@mrwalker967 It's awesome. Isn't it!?

[@cj2driver]

Any suggestions with respect to performance settings in Lightroom Classic CC. I shoot a Nikon D850 and each file is approx. 100mb. I have experienced a lot of lag and beach-balling, slow with local adjustments and exporting full res files. I have the M1 Mac Mini with 8GB ram. Any help is appreciated. Thanks!

[@dkastra26]

Hm. I have 16gb and Sony a7riv with 125mb files and no lags. And i hate and see lags. My ryzen 5950x lags in lightroom and is slower to open the pictures in Photoshop.

[@MandeepGadgetBoy]

Might be ram -6

[@Emulives]

5 photos? come on !!

[@nevvanclarke9225]

Watching the speed of the upload made me cringe my iPad Pro is so much faster. I’m starting to realise that I probably should just get an iPad Pro as man it’s so much faster than this are use a 46 megapixel camera in the NikonD850….And it uploads way much faster than this and the workflow between image and social media is so much more smoother