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Newer Technology 11-piece Tool Kit

Filed under: Reviews, Technical, Cool Stuff of the Week — Erik Hillard @ 5:53 pm

Just a quick note about an inexpensive product I have been very happy with.

$18 computer tool kit from Newer Technology. 11-pieces including the perfect size screw drivers and torx drivers. Just did a hard drive swap on a MBP and this kit helped make it seamless. (Along with the great video tutorials on OWC)

Everything you need inside including magnetic drivers that make the job simple. No more dropped screws into the caverns of your computer. And the nylon pry tool is a nice mar free solution to popping covers and changing batteries on iPods.

Newer Technology Tool Kit

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Village Blackout

Filed under: Cool Stuff of the Week — Rick Allen @ 4:32 pm

I know I shouldn’t get so excited about a tent but…… anyone have one of these or experience with them. The weak aussie dollar is going to make it pretty expensive but it looks so cool. check out the video http://www.villageblackout.com/

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C1 Pro 4.5.2 Released

Filed under: News — oscardiez83 @ 4:22 pm

Capture One 4.5.2 just released to solve the issue of corrupted CR2 files. http://www.phaseone.com/Content/Downloads/CO4.aspx

The cause of the problem was that Mac OS would write the files to cache and not fully to the hard drive. When a crash occurs in the software or OS, the placeholders remain on the disk, but the files, which were only held in cache are lost. That we can reproduce 100% of the time. The new version contains steps to ensure that the files are written to disk and verified. Worst case scenario would be that the computer loses power completely while shooting. In that situation at maximum 1-2 files could be lost simply due to not fully being written yet. Even that is very unlikely as the problem would have to occur immediately after capture.

There are also other bug fixes design to solve crashes occurring during settings/style copy and apply

Phase One

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Hold off on the C1 4.5.1 update!!!

Filed under: Technical, News — Eric Zepeda @ 10:15 pm

Gang, things are definitely up in the air right now regarding the latest release of C1. Something is not good with Canon files, and as Oscar pointed out, corruption is a possibility. Until this is sorted out, do not use C1 4.5.1. I would stay with whatever proven workflow you’ve been using until more information becomes available. We will post more information as soon as it becomes available.

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Damaged .cr2 files

Filed under: Technical — oscardiez83 @ 9:15 pm

damaged files in finder Images viewed through C1pro45

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CORRUPT .CR2 Files using C1 Pro 4.5

Filed under: Technical — oscardiez83 @ 8:41 pm

I’ve been trying to give C1 Pro4.5 a fair chance, despite my diss-satisfaction with it.
I decided to trial it on a job this week
I Shot tethered with Canon 1dsmk3 to a macbook pro 10.5.5. All the files were fine upon import (they rendered at 100% and I processed Low Res Jpegs)
The Images were fine when editing.
But after editing I went back to process some Hi res files and about half the images in the shot folders were corrupt (large blacked out parts of image, incorrect file size)
I was unable to recover these images, I was backing up after each shot. The backed up copies are fine, and I’m now using 3.7.9 the process these files.
I’ve had my laptop checked by apple who have not reported any drive problems.
The only application that was used to handle the files was C1pro4.5 apart from finder.
I’ll be trying to recreate this problem in the office over the weekend.
I’ve also started a support case with Phase One, and posted this on their user forum (of which there are a number of people with a similar problem)

I WOULD WARN PEOPLE NOT TO USE THE CANON 1dsMK3 WITH 4.5PRO UNTILL THE CAUSE OF THIS PROBLEM IS ESTABLISHED

Oscar

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Phase RAW files in Lightroom and Bridge CS4 ?

Filed under: Questions — nils_friedman_99 @ 1:16 pm

This is a question i wanted to ask……

How do Phase One RAW files handle in Lightroom 2.0 and Bridge CS4
compared to C1 pro ? In particular how do skin tones and color turn out in the RAW processor ?

I am interested in this because i am starting to use Lightroom more and more since
C1 pro 3.7 hasn’t developed in ages and getting my hands around the clunky C1 4.5 seems daunting.

cheers, Nils

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what you guys think of this workflow?

Filed under: Questions — Rick Allen @ 4:59 am

Saw this article on Patrick Lavoie’s workflow article here

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243 and 12; Are you in or out?

Filed under: Opinion, Technical, News — Eric Zepeda @ 1:57 pm

One of the “perks” of a freelance tech is that occasionally you get to see some other person’s workflow. For me, it’s always cool because just seeing a different approach often makes me think of how to improve my own. It would be fair to say that my routine has many bits and pieces I’ve learned from others along the way, and for that (and to them) I’m very thankful.

Now the flip side of this is when I get on a machine and seriously have to wonder what the “tech” before me did–ever see a process folder where someone renamed WITH NO EXTENSIONS? Or, how about finding a session buried deep in the “documents” folder, because hey, that’s really intuitive ( you know, image files and document files are basically the same; 1’s and 0’s right?). I think my all time favorite is the person that managed to overwrite all the files in their backup capture folder by syncing from a different empty folder and choosing to sync deletions, but not before having permanently deleted the original capture session. WTF people? 1) don’t ever delete anything until you are absolutely sure you’re backed up, and 2) option(or shift-cmd) delete? That’s like pulling the pin on a hand grenade. Always give yourself a way back, just in case because ~~shit~~ stuff happens.

I digress.

The point of all this is I had to laugh when I came across some tech’s exposure warning settings in C1 the other day and they were set at 251 and 7. Wow, that gives you alot of headroom; like none. To me the whole point of the exposure warning is that it’s a warning and you might need to adjust a few things to get the optimum image information. Having it set at the extreme edges doesn’t really help. In fact, I like to be conservative so that when the photographer asks if it’s okay, I know that I’ve got a little more leeway and can decide from there–I’d rather have more information than less any day. Target custom colors is really more of a software band-aid, and setting it at 253 and 10 will definitely get you information there, but I’d rather be old-fashioned and have them move a lightstand or dial up a pack instead. That said, there are times the client wants Target Colors set at certain parameters, and what they want, they get.

Me, I’m sticking to 243 and 12. Conservative? Maybe. But of you’ve ever silo’d 300 images and seen the bloom, you know where I’m coming from.

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Mamiya Announces New Medium Format Digital Camera System

Filed under: News — Eric Isaac @ 11:41 am

It appears that Mamiya has an “open” relationship with Phase One as their new Digital Cameras System - The DL 28 incorporates the Mamiya 645AFD III and a 28MP Leaf Digital Back. The Mamiya DL28 will be available November 2008. MAP price is $14,999. You can read more about the new system here: http://www.mamiya.com/news-events-press-releases.html

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November 18, 2008

Newer Technology 11-piece Tool Kit

November 12, 2008

Village Blackout

November 6, 2008

C1 Pro 4.5.2 Released

November 3, 2008

Hold off on the C1 4.5.1 update!!!

October 31, 2008

Damaged .cr2 files

October 30, 2008

CORRUPT .CR2 Files using C1 Pro 4.5

October 26, 2008

Phase RAW files in Lightroom and Bridge CS4 ?

October 21, 2008

what you guys think of this workflow?

October 18, 2008

243 and 12; Are you in or out?

October 17, 2008

Mamiya Announces New Medium Format Digital Camera System

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