would you care to share some more renderstats?
machine and rendertimes used here are very relevant to my interests
Home Setup /// Mac Pro 2 x 2.8 GHz Quad-Core Xeon 6GB OS 10.5.6. // Macbook Pro 15" 2.4 Ghz 6GB OS 10.4 /// Work Setup /// Mac Pro 2 x 2.4 GHz Dual-Core Xeon 16GB OS 10.6.4 ///
Looking at the ghost image it seems that the particle size is more evident there. I'm thinking that size question is related to res. Did you have a chance to look at the file I sent?
if you could randomly color them blue, green, red, yellow and give them a dirty greasy coating, then it would remind me of a terrible Peter Piper Pizza ball pen episode I once experienced.