Describe your digital darkroom

[JimAuburn]

I'd be interested to know what kind of equipment others here rely upon for working on their digital images. I'm looking for things like spec of computer, amount of RAM, size of screen, profiling equipment, etc. Pics would be nice, too.

Computer:
Pentium 4 (socket 478 ), 3.2 ghz, 2 gigs of RAM.

Monitor: Samsung 213T

Printer: Canon i9900

Thinking I need a faster computer....

[brian.austin]

Computer: Dell Precision 390, Pentium Core Duo 3.00GHz, 2Gb RAM, Nvidia Quadro FX 550 w/256Mb (I think...might be 128.)

Monitor: Dell FPW2407, calibrated with Spyder2 Pro

Printer: none, I use offsite services

Software: start with Adobe Lightroom, including Develop, and move to Photoshop CS2 as needed.

I also have a Wacom 9x12 tablet I haven't hooked up yet. Might be a little big.

[Latinbob]

Here's what I got:

Dell XPS 400 w/ Pentium 4 2.8 Ghz, 2 gig RAM. 150 Gig hd and 80 gig internal. 300 Gig HD external. All more than 50% full too!

Dell 2405 FPW 24" LCD monitor.

Canon i9100 printer

Canoscan 9900F scanner

Minolta DImage Scan Dual III for 35mm scanner

The big monitor helps more than anything. I haven't calibrated it beyond using Adobe Gamma, but the prints out of the printer and from MPIX are close enough for me. I also use Qimage to print at home.

My processor is hyper-threaded and that helps, but I do peg it out occasionally.

Bob

[cikgu101]

Computer: Pentium 4, 1GB Ram and MSI 6600NX DC

Storage : Three Hard Disks(250Gb,40GB and 20GB...200GB Imminent...Under Warranty) + One External 120GB, Sony CD-R and DVD-R Burners

Monitor: Dell 19" LCD

Printer: Epson R230..almost out of INK but wanna try a Konica Minolta Color Laser Printer Soon

Scanner : Cheapo UMAX Astra 4100...may want to upgrade to a Film compatible scanner soon

Software: Photoshop CS2 all the time but ACDSee for Viewing and Deleting

[james23p]

Dell Dimension 1100 Celeron D 3.2hz 478 pin Prescott chip set(cheap and I find it pretty fast and reliable)
2 gig ram
DVD burner
40 gig internal HD and Western Digital My book external usb 500 gig HD
19 inch Dell LCD
Spyder basic for color managment
No printer I burn to CD and use my local shop its cheaper
Nikon coolscan V

Picture Project to upload and organize
Nikon NX for RAW conversion and full RAW corrections
Photoshop Elements 5 for some of the frames and artsy stuff
Lightroom is on the way to replace Picture Project hopefully

[LeeK]

built my own system...abit mb, p4 2.8 w/2g ram, ati x800/256mg graphics card and a terabit of storage and am running out of room...gotta burn some dvd's to clear up some space as a new catalog is starting...

[LeeK]

oh forgot have a NEC MultiSync PF2141SB crt Diamondtron monitor, using Spyder2 & PrintFIX Pro to calibrate the monitor and canon printer i9900...keeping fingers crossed, hopefully getting the IPF8000 at the end of summer...!

[pellepiano]

Im on a budget.
I have the really really small Mac Mini ( Intel ), 1,2 gb ram. A Samsung Syncmaster 9210 19" screen. Photoshop of course and Photomatix. Strata 3d for 3d imaging.

[EOS_JD]

Custom built PC

AMD Athlon64 3200+
1Gb RAM (Had 2 Gb and I didn't install it right and burned my Mobo slots )
DVD+/- & DVDRAM Burner
21" Samsung 215TW (superb monitor for the money)
Calibrated with SpyderII

3 internal hard disks
1 x 300Gb
1 x 250Gb
1 x 200Gb

3 external hard disks
1 x 500Gb
2 x 200Gb

Also have additional backups - 40Gb hard drive full of mp3s, my Epson P-2000 backing up my most recent shoots and a 30Gb Creative Zen Vision keeping backups of my favourite music.

I have an Epson R2400 which is an amazing printer although is pretty expensive to run.
Canon CP-330 remote 6x4 printer - great at events as the battery allows loads of prints to be made.
Canon LIDE20 cheap scanner as I don't scan much.

Edit : Forgot to add my Wacom Grapphire4 tablet. Connected to my right hand almost permanently when in front of the PC

Photoshop CS3 & other stuff

CHeers
JD

[jfrancho]

Alienware Area 51 (Intel) Dual Core 3.6 GHz, 4 GB RAM, 800 FSB; SATA Drives: 250 GB System Drive, 250 GB Data Drive, 500 GB RAID 1 Archive; Assorted External HDD for DR purposes; 19" Dell Trinitron Flat CRT monitor; Logitech Laser mouse; HP Laser Printer (for documents only); Software: Photoshop CS2, Faststone Viewer, DPP, EOS Remote Capture, Photomatix, Noise Ninja, TLR Scripts and Actions, Rense's Scripts.

For printing, I use WHCC or MPIX. Sometimes I use Shutterfly for prepaid 4x6 prints and I do like their books.

For hosting, I use Smugmug.com, and I use a private server for off site file storage.

[KABeach]

hmmm...

An old beat up Dell Inspiron laptop with Nikon View and Photoshop CS2.

A Minolta Scan Multi II attached to an old P3 for scanning negs...

A Epson R800 for proofs... and a DVD burner with some external USB hard drives.

Color corrected with a Spyder.

Nothing really special, but it does allow my to do proofing/editing on the road or at a remote location...

Cheers!
Ken