Check out the new case from tenba.
Anyone tried them
Just wanted to pass along a good way to keep up on the latest knowledge base articles from Phase. Subscribe to their RSS feed and it will keep you updated on the last ten articles released.
Current ones include how to stop that damn AFD lens from dropping out of focus when shooting overhead (We always used to gaff tape the lens, but Phase has a much more elegant solution in their article) and how to use C1 with the Leaf iPad app.
Good way to stay updated when you’re not on set.
Phase One RSS feed
So a photog that I tech for gave me his laptop and asked me why he wasn’t able to play DVD’s on his 2008 17″ MBP.
“Hm?” I replied
(Apparently the person who set up the machine left out unessential things like idvd to trim down the OS. )
Then after light temple scratching and medium to heavy google searching I realized that. No you can’t fix it without re-installing the OS and having to reformat and have to re-instal all your programs.
Then after less temple scratching and medium to heavy google searching this was discovered. So I thought i’d share it:
Just an interesting bit of info:
Since DVD player was trashed on the laptop we thought it was necessary to reinstall the entire system, However, I found a program which you might be interest in calledPacifist
It allows you to download the program, and run it in conjunction with your system install discs.
It then will individually pull all the elements of that install disc and you can pick what you want from it and extract single components and then install that single component. In this case it showed a all the contents of the 2 discs and one of those components was the program DVD player, you click that one program, click install it prompts you to reinsert the disc and that single program is installed. Cool program, shareware. DVD player is back and working….neat solution.
Hey guys, I haven’t purchased new ram for a while. I’ve a got a 4 core mac pro and usually buy crucial ram. Suggestions?
thx guys & gals
Hoping you all had a great New Year’s Eve and day and hopefully the hangover wasn’t too bad.
Me? I was on set, yup, NYE and yesterday, which really, is not a bad way to start 2010. It was rather funny seeing a bunch of partied out people on the subway at 6:30am though. Here in NYC the mayor was sworn in for a third term and I got to help out on set for the inauguration ceremony, which was quite a spectacle in its own right. Took a quick snap of the gallery set while the band was loading in, just for kicks.
Anyway, best wishes to all you techs, and here’s to a better, if not great year!
-z
Hey all, am just back from a three week car shoot out west. Will post more and lots of thoughts about what worked and what didn’t on this shoot.
I will say that if you haven’t visited Telluride and Moab, you should.
Cold, but beautiful.
So I ran into a bit of a challenge on the last job syncing LR tags/adjustments. In the spirit of constant improvement, I figured I’d post it to the forum and see what tips I can glean for the future. (AKA: “There has to be a better way.”) Here’s the basic rundown:
Shoot to Laptop “A”. Backup to external. Photog takes external to edit at night on Laptop “B” (his). I told him to just double-click the .lrcat file on the external – so that all adjustments were logged on the external’s LR catalog. Instead he opened LR and imported the images. So all his edits were in his catalog. (He didn’t want to carry Laptop A with him – just to explain why we didn’t use the obvious/easiest solution!)
The best I could do: I went back to Laptop B, opened his catalog and saved the metadata to xmp sidecars on the external. Then I hooked it up to Laptop A, dragged the XMP’s over manually (shot folder by shot folder), and re-imported the shot folders into Laptop A’s correct LR catalog. But this seemed rather inefficient: having to go into the Finder, select XMP files folder-by-folder, overwrite the old XMP’s on Laptop A, then open the correct catalog and RE-import those folders. For all the little “tricks” in LR, it seems it should be easier. I did notice that just “Synchronize Folder” did NOT pick-up the tags, despite the new XMP’s; I had to remove the folder and re-import.
I figure there’s a good chance someone who’s more savvy with LR (I use it on less than 5% of my jobs) has a better way to solve this situation.
A second, related challenge: Suggestions on how best to sync LR tags/adjustments (meta) over the internet? The same shooter wanted to edit the last day and send me the tags (so we didn’t have to meet up). Since he’d all-but-certainly use his own catalog again, his .lrdata file wouldn’t help me (even if I did have him FTP the entire thing). And I couldn’t count on him being computer-savvy enough to reliably save his meta, copy the XMP’s to a folder to ZIP and send. Even if he could, it just seems wildly too much work. So: over the internet, potentially with 2 different catalogs…best way to sync metadata?
Thanks in advance for any suggestions!
~Gully
hey all,
which of your opinion is the best laptop tripod mount availible at this point? Not enclosed, like the seal like cases, just straight to the laptop. thx
Hey Guys,
I’m getting an Eizo soon. I’m thinking about getting the Eizo CG222WBK instead of one of the higher of the coloredge series, like the Eizo CE240 ColorEdge
What do you guys think ?
this little ditty came up on digg today, via my girlfriend. I thought I would share with you:
BTW, I thought you guys would be all over this
