Daytona
April 20, 2009 | Atlanta
Steve Hendrix and I recently visited my old alum, Daytona State College. We demonstrated the power and versatility of Phase One DBs and Capture One Pro 4.7. It was a great to see all of my former instructors … and the Piccadilly lunch! I found out it’s a DSC tradition. I wanted to thank everyone for their hospitality. I also visited Anna Tomczak, another former instructor, at her studio in Lake Helen. She loved the P30+ V that I showed her!
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Cambo Leveling Base
April 7, 2009 | News, Tips & Tech
Cambo is introducing a new accessory for the WideRS, consisting of a Leveling Base for fine-tuned control of the camera’s level to match exact vertical linearity. This Base also allows for 360 degrees panning in levelled position, with a clear zero-position, useful for reaching the lens control settings in difficult set-ups, and useful to perform panoramic-like movements based on use of the integrated scales.
Continue reading Cambo Leveling Base…
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Hähnel P1 Battery Charger
April 7, 2009 | Tech Features, Tips & Tech
Capture Integration is proud to announce an exclusive lower price on the Hahnel Battery Charger used to charge Phase One digital back batteries. These chargers not only charge Phase Batteries, but display the charge level of a battery almost immediately in 10% increments.
Included
- Hähnel PowerStation Twin V Pro Video
- Plate to charge: Panasonic CGR-D08, D16, D28 & CGA/R-D54
- Plate to charge: Sony L&M series
- Plate to charge: JVC BNV-707, 714 & 730 Canon BP-911, 930 & 945
- Car charger
- US power adapter (100-240V -> 12V 1250mA)
Phase One’s List price is $299. CLICK HERE to order now for $99!
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More iPhone Photo Apps
April 6, 2009 | Tech Features, Tips & Tech
We received so much positive feedback about our Photo iPhone Apps article we knew we had to continue the series.
Canon 5D II Mini-Manual
This 5D II is one of our weekend recreational cameras as a company, but it has so many features that even we get dizzy! This app is a mini guide to the functions, features, and menus of the camera. It’s like having the most important part of the user’s manual in your pocket at all times. Documentation includes all the basic controls such as shooting, auto focus, and metering modes. Advanced controls including bracketing, white balance, custom functions, menu settings reference, and quick help section.
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Air Mouse (Requires free Air Mouse Server)
Don’t let the name fool you. This app’s great power for a photographer is to remotely enter up to four different keyboard shortcuts. Effectively freeing you from needing to be near the computer to trigger a tethered camera, zoom in to 100%, zoom to fit, tag an image, or hide/show the browser (thumbnails). See the instructions below. Outside of this specific use Air Mouse can also be used to control the mouse itself allowing theoretically any function to be completed remotely; however, in pratical use this can be challanging to do at any great distance (it can be hard to see the mouse).
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Setting Up Air Mouse with Capture One
Below are some suggested instructions to tie your Air Mouse on your iPhone to Capture One during a tethered shoots.
Continue reading More iPhone Photo Apps…
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Profoto Birthday Discounts
April 5, 2009 | Promotion
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- Acute 2/2R ProValue Pack or Acute2 /2R pack with 2 Heads OR
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- D4 Pack
We are proud to be a Profoto Dealer. Call us at 877-217-9870 to customize a package today.
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C1 4.7 Pro Tip: Checking Focus Mid-Burst
April 3, 2009 | Tips & Tech
The Problem: When shooting at the maximum speed of a Phase One digital back or Canon/Nikon dSLR the 100% focus window may never fully resolve, making it impossible to check the focus of images as they come in.
Capture One 4.7 Pro includes several ways to check focus in the middle of a stream of images.
Method 1
Set [Camera > Auto Select New Capture > Never]. New images will still be captured and placed in the thumbnail list; however, the program will not automatically select the new image which gives you the flexibility to select images and check their focus at your own pace.
Method 2
Set [Camera > Auto Select New Capture > Immediately]. When a new image is captured it will be immediatly displayed. This creates a steady “stream” of images on the screen during heavy shooting. To check the focus of a particular image press the Return (a.k.a. “Enter”) key. The currently selected image (denoted by a while border) will become a “compare variant” (denoted by a yellow border) which will remain on the screen even as the next image in the stream is selected. You can either zoom in on that image, or use “Window > Viewer” to bring up a separate view of the two images so that both the focus-check view and the zoom-to-fit vew are shown. This later method requires considerable computer power and is best done on a fast 8-core tower fully optomized for speed.
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C1 4.7 Tip: Making Small JPGs Very Quickly
April 3, 2009 | Tips & Tech
Capture One 4.7 includes a very powerful tool to quickly create small JPGs of a large number of Raw files. However, it is a bit obscured by the form it takes: the “Make Web Contact Sheet” command. This article will outline how to use Make Web Contact Sheet for Small JPG Previews.
Step by Step
1. Select the images you wish to make small JPG previews of
2. File > Make Web Contact Sheet
3. Select the Preview Size you wish to use, up to 1000px in the horizontal (verticals are limited to 650px)
4. Select an Output Location where the Web Contact Sheet will temporarily reside while you extract the JPG previews
5. Export
6. Open the Folder of the Web Contact Sheet and Navigate to [Photos > Previews]. See below.
7. Move the JPG Previews wherever you want.
More Tips:
No matter how you select to name the thumbnails in the Web Contact Sheet the Previews folder will contain JPGs named the same as the raw file. So be sure to use Batch Rename to establish what ever naming scheme prior to exporting to maintain consistent naming throughout the editing/feedback/retrieval/retouching stages.
You can set up a batch action in Photoshop to add watermarks to this folder of JPG previews.
HTML/CSS junkies can modify Theme > ContactSheet.css in any given Web Contact Sheet folder to play with the CSS used to generate the style of the Web Contact Sheet. Permemenant changes to the CSS may be able to be made by opening the package contents of [CaptureOne.app > Contents > Resources > Web Contact Sheet > Themes > Light or Dark > Dark.css or Light.css], but this methodology has not been tested.
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Protected: Organizing Sessions Using Smart Folders
April 3, 2009 | Pro Tips, Tips & Tech
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Protected: C1 4.7 Pro Tip: Custom Keyboard Shorcuts
April 2, 2009 | Tips & Tech
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Protected: Quick Adjustments
April 2, 2009 | Pro Tips, Tech Features, Tips & Tech
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C1 4.7: So What the Heck is EIP?
April 2, 2009 | Tech Features, Tips & Tech
Capture One 4.7 introduces a new file format named EIP, or Enhanced Image Package. This new format allows the photographer to combine the settings, LCC file (if applicable), and raw file into one portable file, called an EIP format.
The Problem this Solves
Many photographers are being asked to deliver their clients RAW files. This presents a difficulty because the photographer wants to deliver a file with appropriate adjustments such as color temperature, contrast, saturation, and highlight/shadow recovery. In the case of technical cameras used in architecture and landscape photography the raw file may need to be corrected by an LCC (lens cast correction) in order to be color-correct. In previous versions of Capture One the photographer would have to deliver a raw file, an LCC file, and a settings file to the cliient, who in all likelyhood was not very savvy about Capture One. This was a real difficulty in workflow.
The EIP Solution
EIP is a ZIP file format which wraps a raw file, a settings file, and an LCC (if applicable) into one file. Once in EIP format this file can be moved between folder, between computers, or sent by FTP to another computer by itself. On the destination computer the recipient can simply double click the file and Capture One will launch. The only requirement is that the recipient have Capture One 4.7 or higher on their computer.
What if the Recipient Doesn’t have C1 4.7 or higher? Is this a closed format?
Because EIP is a ZIP file format it is completely open. A user can rename a file called “Photo_1.eip” to “Photo_1.zip” and double click that file to reveal the contained .TIF or .IIQ raw file, which could then be opened in Photoshop CS3 or higher. For the workflow to be improved the recipient will need to have Capture One 4.7 or higher, so clearly the uptake of this new technology will begin primarily with photographers who have consistent business with a particular client. It will also be immediatly useful for photographers who use technical cameras to move files between multiple machines (e.g. a capture laptop and a retouching workstation).
Below is a screen grab showing an “unzipped” EIP file.
How Do I Actually Use EIP?
There are two ways to use the EIP format. First you can shoot or import directly into EIP at the time of capture; select “Pack Phase One images” in [Preferences > General > EIP Packaging]. Alternatively any given Phase One raw file can be pacakaged by right clicking the thumbnail (or control clicking on a Mac) and selecting “Pack as EIP”. Once packaged they can be automatically unpackaged (though within the Capture One workflow there would be no need to do so) by right clicking and selecting “Unpack EIP”.
Extra Bonus
Images wrapped in the EIP format are compatible with OSX’s Quick Look feature which means even computers without Capture One can view a modestly sized preview (rather than the 200ish pixel wide preview present in previous file formats). The Vista equivalent of Quick Look is also supported.
Other Notes
As pointed out by Selsoa on LL, when packing a file as an EIP the settings file normally present in the Capture One > Settings subfolder are moved, not copied, to the packed EIP file. This means there can be no conflict of the settings within the EIP compared to the file in the settings folder.
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