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Message: <blockquote data-quote="BackdoorArts" data-source="post: 328952" data-attributes="member: 9240"><p>"Greater" all depends on what you mean.  File sizes are in the 30-50MB size for RAW files (depending on details), so you're going to need sufficient RAM to deal with that.  Everything you do with these files will take longer regardless of hardware, and some things are just not doable particularly when you're merging multiple RAW files.  I've got 32GB of RAM on my Mac and have hit the wall when it's come to merging panoramas without first resizing.  I suspect had I tried the same thing with focus stacking I'd find the same thing.  Shot at a time shouldn't be problematic provided you have patience and don't start adding a ton of layers to your processing in PS.</p></blockquote><p></p>