AaronBentley

Would just like to say thank you to all the hard work thats gone into the new look of the website/forum. The old white theme use to hurt my eyes when I was reading late at night and often found myself turning down my monitor brightness which was kind of annoying, hopefully this new night theme will help with that.
Regards
Aaron

Its the Blue Yeti Pro :)

I think they're using the Blue Yeti Microphone

Hi Pedro, With RAW you get two separate files for one photo, not DNG.

I know there is always going to be a discussion about things like this, but I find it best to leave it up to the "photographer" to decide whether he/she/it wants to convert.  There are always going to be Pros and Cons arguments.  And everyone makes valid points, as Obi-Wan told Luke, "from a certain point of view".

When I first adopted Lightroom, with version 3, at first I did opt to convert to DNG.  I didn't throw away my camera RAW files, instead kept both copies.  Sometimes I need to go back to my old photos, because a friend or client asks for a print... and yes while there may be a loss of data during conversion, it's hardly anything that I miss.
Adobe Lightroom/Adobe Camera RAW, Capture One, DxO Optics Pro, (the old) Apple Aperture/OSX Photos (current) all have their own tool for interpreting RAW formats.  None of these software open the RAW image file and show it in the exact same way.  So I personally don't worry about what might be lost in RAW to DNG conversion anyway.  What matters most to be is the "look" of the final photo that I send to my clients or print.  None of my clients have asked me what data was lost during all the editing.

My main reason for sticking with my Nikons' NEF format is for these two reasons:
While I can afford virtually unlimited storage, I am lazy to do the conversion. While Lightroom allows for non-destructive editing, sometimes I need to "save" my changes and I prefer them to be saved to an external XML file rather than into the DNG file. And I feel that space is wasted by keeping both RAW and DNG versions, when RAW will serve me just as well if not better. I know professionals who convert to DNG and discard their RAW files, and I haven't really heard any complaints from them.  Just as I know others who stay with RAW.
In a way, DNG vs RAW conversation is similar to the "Protection Filter or Not" conversation.  Some people use it, some people don't, and some people use it sometimes.
Nice article about camera RAW vs. DNG here.
https://photographylife.com/dng-vs-raw
https://photographylife.com/why-i-no-longer-convert-raw-files-to-dng

Not the cleanest of systems but it has lovely airflow and I have great CPU temps under load with a i7 4790k overclocked to 4.8Ghz (1.25vcore) 
 
 
 

Update all your drivers.
 
Download it from Manufacturers website.
 
Install Ccleaner and don't install "the best anti virus in the world" like Norton, McAfee.
 
Use Windows Defender for Virus Scanning.
 
Use ADWCleaner for cleaning adwares.
 
Defragment your HDD monthly twice (only if it is a HDD).
 
You're good to go.