Phase One Body

March 18, 2008 | Doug, News

New Phase One Body

• Improved shutter speed range 1/4000th – 60 minutes
• New AF motor with 3 AF points
• New digital board
• Improved dial, shutter, grip ergonomics, AF lever (for AF mode selection)
• Ready for 120 frames per minute
• Ready for leaf shutters, expected 2008
• Value Added Warranty: 3 year or 300,000 actuations (body and lens)
• Classic Warranty: 1 year or 100,000 actuations (body and lens)
• Compatible with Mamiya MF lenses, and AF lenses with no adaptor
• Compatible with Hasselblad V lenses with adapter (included with Value Added Warranty)
• Compatible with Pentacon 6 series lenses with adapter (available from Hartblei)

New 80mm F2.8 AF lens

• Extremely low chromatic aberration
• Steel barrel
• New ergonomic design

New Value Added Case

• Fits a laptop
• Has roller wheels and handle
• Room for body and two lenses

More information

• PhaseOne.com feature story
• Phase One Press Release in PDF

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Atlanta’s tornado

March 18, 2008 | News

I was out of town on vacation when the F2 tornado hit downtown Atlanta. Luckily the SEC between Alabama and Mississippi went into overtime. If it had not, there could have been several thousand people heading back to their hotels or cars and the casualties could have been unbelievable. Our office is only about one mile from where it hit and we were spared, but I wanted to see what the damage was. I’ve attached a few pictures to show some of the damage.

More photos after the jump

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Grand Opening of Peter Lik Gallery

March 14, 2008 | Chris, News

Since I moved down here to sunny Miami I have spent a lot of time wandering around. At the end of last year while strolling down Lincoln Rd I noticed that a Peter Lik gallery was opening soon. I was very excited because I have read about his work and his galleries that he has around the world.

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Lance Email March 08

March 13, 2008 | Landing pages

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High Dynamic Range – Highlight and Shadow Recovery

March 5, 2008 | Doug, Tips & Tech

Overview of HDR

Phase One digital backs capture tremendous dynamic range. The new HDR adjustments in Capture One 4.0 taps into this dynamic range to easily recover clean, accurate, and natural detail from deep shadow and blown-out highlights. The process is simple and straight forward. Best of all, using Capture One 4.0 you can compare different variations (see image to the right) of HDR, exposure, and contrast to create exactly the look you and your client want.

An alternative method, Photoshop’s Merge-to-HDR, can offer powerful solutions in difficult shooting situations, but it requires tremendous computing power and post processing time.  Also, due to the need for blending multiple captures, the subject must be completely still making it unsuitable for landscape or models. In contrast, the HDR tools in Capture One 4.0 has none of these handicaps.

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Multiple Strobe Pops for Interior Lighting with Phase One

March 4, 2008 | Guest Writers, Tips & Tech

This article is was contributed by our valued customer, Jeffrey Totaro. You can check out his website at www.jeffreytotaro.com. If you are a customer and have a technique to share with the community please contact Doug Peterson.

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Digital photography provides many excellent solutions to photographic challenges. But coming from 4×5 film I missed one previously film-only technique: multiple strobe pops while shooting interiors. I have developed a unique switch-box that brings the multiple pop method to Phase One digital backs. The device is built by Kapture Group, and available for purchase from Capture Integration. The device can also be used for other long-exposure and multiple exposure techniques.

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IAAP and Capture Integration team up

March 4, 2008 | Guest Writers, News

Editors Note: This article was contributed by Thomas Bliss, the president of the International Association of Architectural Photographers. Steadily Capture Integration has been proving itself as the authority on specific markets in our industry. If a product doesn’t exist to solve a photographic problem Capture Integration will develop one, thus establishing our branded line of exclusive products. The combination of high ideals, customer service, and the superior quality of the Phase One line of digital backs has been integral in establishing Capture Integration’s reputation as the #1 source of information for the discerning photographer. Our expertise in the Architectural market has lead us to partner with an organization that is like minded. We look forward to a long relationship with IAAP and its members.

The International Association of Architectural Photographers was first launched by founder and “emerging” architectural photographer Thomas Bliss on January 1st, 2003 as NAAPA. The name was changed in mid 2003 to the IAAP to reflect a growing international membership.

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