Phase One 120mm AF vs. 120mm MF
EJJI 10K Rechargeable Battery
EJJI 10K Battery and Charger
Capture One 6.3.3
Daytona
April 20, 2009 | CI Team
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
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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More iPhone Photo Apps
April 6, 2009 | Tech, Tech Features
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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C1 4.7 Pro Tip: Checking Focus Mid-Burst
April 3, 2009 | 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 | 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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Organizing Sessions Using Smart Folders
April 3, 2009 | Tech
What Problem Does this Solve
Capture One Pro offers a [File > Open Recent Session]. This works for a small number of sessions. However, many production houses, digital techs, and even some individual photographers can be juggling dozens of sessions at any given time. These sessions may be on different drives or subfolders. Below is a method to better access and organize sessions.
Step by Step
1. In the Finder select [File > Find]
2. Select [Kind > Is > Other] and type in “session”
3. Push + if you wish to add other Search Modifiers such as “Last Opened” or “Created Date”
4. Push Save to create a Smart Folder based on your search terms
Suggested Smart Folders:
- “Recently Opened Sessions” [Created Date > is > within last > 3 > months]
- “Current Sessions” [Last Opened > is > within last > 2 > weeks]
- “All Sessions” [No additional modifiers]
Other Tips
If you wish to distinguish between C13 and C14 Sessions you can change [Kind > Is > Other > "Session"] to [Name > Ends With > ".col45" or "session"].
Make sure “Search:” is set to “This Mac” to search the entire computer unless the intention is to search just a particular folder (e.g. a folder specific to a particular client).
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C1 4.7 Pro Tip: Custom Keyboard Shorcuts
April 2, 2009 | Tech
These tips are generally covered in our Capture One Master’s Online Training Class.
Custom Keyboard Shortcuts
Download Capture Integration’s Custom Keyboard Shortcut Suggestion PDF.
In the PDF linked above we list the most useful default keyboard shortcuts. Then we list shortcuts which we suggest power users add. Also, we have a list of shortcuts to change and a list of shortcuts to remove.
An example of the shortcuts we suggest be added is [Edit > Select By Color Tag > Green, Red, and Yellow] so that you can easily select those colors to either view, move, or delete them. These correspond directly to the default keyboard shortcuts + – * which tag an image Green, Red, or Yellow. These editing shortcuts can then be combined with the Move to Move-To Folder shortcut Apple-J to quickly identify and move the selects from a generic folder of images into a selects folder. Simply create a new folder, add it to the favorites (custom keyboard shortcut Option-F) and then make it the move-to-folder (custom keyboard shortcut Option-M). Then tag your selects with Green (+), Red (-), or Yellow (*). Select all of the Greens with Option-+ and move them to the selects folder with Apple-J (i.e. Move to Move-to-Folder). Then Select all of the reds with Option– and delete them (Apple-Delete).
Once you’ve customized your keyboard shortcuts on your main workstation you can synchronize any other computers in your workflow by copying the KeyboardShortcuts plist from [User > Library > Application Support > Capture One > Keyboard Shortcuts] to the same folder on any other computer (see below). This also works well to back-up your custom settings on a USB Flash Drive to carry with you wherever you go.
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Quick Adjustments
April 2, 2009 | Tech, Tech Features
Capture One has always had a strong ability to work quickly with huge volumes of shots. One of our favorite features of Capture One is the speed at which you can copy one setting (e.g. a white balance of 6000k) and paste it to the entire shoot whether its 100 or 10,000 images.
One of the greatest features of Capture One is the ability to use only the keyboard to navigate through a large collection of images and apply minor changes in saturation, contrast, exposure, WB etc based on changing lighting conditions. For instance an editorial shoot on location might have five hundred shots, and every single shot the light changed just a bit. For many photographers a variation of a fraction of a stop is not a big deal. However, many digital techs or catalog photographer adjust literally thousands of shots per day, so every fraction of a second they can save per image adds up to hours more sleep each night.
Why are keyboard shortcuts such a big deal? As you are first learning to use a keyboard shortcut it will take as long, or longer, to perform an operation than finding and moving a slider with the mouse (“what’s that darn shortcut again??”). However as you practice you will find your fingers will train themselves and the shortcuts will become second nature, much as an advanced touch typist doesn’t even think about the keys on the keyboard while typing 60 words per minute. Advanced digital techs who work day in and out on catalog shoots can adjust upwards of an image per second using this method (and a fast well configured computer).
Basic Step by Step
1. Select the first raw by clicking on it’s thumbnail
2. Place your cursor within the text entry box for an adjustment (see right)
3. Use the up and down keys to bump that adjustment up or down.
4. Use Apple-Left and Apple-Right to move to the next or previous image.
Additional Tips
- you can leave the Apple key depressed while you push up and down to reduce the number of total keystrokes involved
- you can use tab and shift-tab to quickly change between different adjustments without using the mouse
- hold shift with up or down to adjust by larger amounts
Specific Keyboard Shorcuts
In addition to the ability to manipulate any slider in Capture One via the keyboard there are direct keyboard shortcuts for specific operations. For instance:
- Increase Exposure Command Control +
- Decrease Exposure Command Control -
- Increase Contrast Command Shift Control +
- Decrease Contrast Command Shift Control -
Note that these default keyboard shortcuts work best on an extended keyboard with a numeric keypad. For laptop users you may wish to remap the commands to the simpler to remember open/closed brackets and command open/closed brackets which are a lot easier to access on a laptop or on a compact keyboard which lacks a numeric keypad (like the low profile keyboards included now with most Apple desktops). To remap these shortcuts simply go to Capture One > Edit Keyboard Shortcuts, create a new keyboard shortcut set (“duplicate”) and then browse to Shortcuts > Exposure and double click in the “key” column (where the keyboard command is shown) and type the new shortcut. Below is what this part of Edit Keyboard Shortcuts looks like after changing the shortcuts per the suggestion of using brackets.
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C1 4.7: So What the Heck is EIP?
April 2, 2009 | Tech, Tech Features
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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