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gypsytan
Inspiring
November 16, 2016
Question

Tiny previews before importing

  • November 16, 2016
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Why does this happen?  It was random a few months ago, now permanent.

I put my SHDC card in my computer, open Lightroom, click on Import and can't see neither Fit or 1:1 zoom.  All the previous are tiny in the center of the screen.  The only way to fill the screen is to zoom 11:1 which obviously is not going to help with culling photos before importing.  I'm using a MBP with MacOS, but others seem to have this problem with Windows too (see link below).

Note that I'm taking only RAW photos.  Files are ORF (Olympus).  LR Import settings are Build Smart Previous set to Standard and checkmark on Build Smart Previews.  (I found an old forum post 2014-15 on another forum with people mentioning this issue with different cameras and Windows:  http://www.lightroomforums.net/threads/tiny-previews-in-import-window.21110/

The only way to be able to see the my photos in the card before importing "fit" or "1:1" is to move to another directory in my hard drive as if I were to import from it, then move again to import from the card.

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dj_paige
dj_paige
Legend
November 16, 2016

There's a slider at the bottom of the Import dialog box, to the right of center, that lets you change the size of the thumbnails. For example, see https://i.ytimg.com/vi/CwKTZnr4MQE/maxresdefault.jpg

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gypsytanAuthor
Inspiring
November 16, 2016

Yes, thanks.  I'm aware.  It just doesn't do anything, unless I push it to 11:1   (1:1 is what gives me a very tiny preview in the center of the page).  11:1 is of course a blurred image.

dj_paige
dj_paige
Legend
November 16, 2016

Are we even talking about the same thing here? Are you talking about the Import Dialog box (as in the image I linked to), or somewhere else? I haven't used that slider in a while, but it's there and it doesn't say 11:1 as far as I can remember, it doesn't allow an 11:1 zoom in the Import dialog as far as I can remember. Can you show me a screen capture of what you are seeing?

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