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I think this has a bright future. Adobe is really good about getting feedback from the professional photography community. I use Capture One all the time and I have love and hate for it. I’m excited to see how Adobe handles some of the issues Phase has been slow to respond to. If nothing else I think Lightroom is a fantastic program and will definitely hold it’s own.

Ok, I know I said I was getting along fine with C1 5.1, but that tagging issue was killing me. 5.1.1 fixes this and a few other things, but thank God, I’m glad that’s over.

hey guys,

I’m thinking about purchasing some printer spooling software.  You guys have any suggestions?

thx!

Pentax is expecting. She’s due in May and will be giving birth to a new Digital 645 Camera priced just under 10K. Too bad its got a face only a mother could love.

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Ok, Techs, I’ve been working with C1 5.1 for a few weeks now and I have to say that aside from a few majorly annoying things. I’m much happier with the app overall. It is noticeably faster, the crop tool is a godsend (or maybe the way it should be), and the batch rename is working just fine in most situations.

For the bad, let’s just say the tagging issue has people frothing over at the Phase forum, and it’s a huge PITA. Let’s hope Phase fixes this one quick. For the moment I just have to remember to clear the tag on the next capture if I don’t want it, much like I’ve almost automatically learned to reset the capture counter when I switch filenames or start a new folder.

It could just be that I’m pretty used to the app now, so I’ve learned to deal with it’s quirks and really, 3.7 had them too, so I’m not that plussed that things aren’t perfect. Almost every capture app I’ve ever worked with hads its pluses and minuses, so 5.1 really isn’t that out of line with most of the usual crud I’ve had to deal with. I do find that it is more stable than 3.7, but that is another huge topic relative to the machines/os it’s installed on etc.

As with 3.7, I’ve found that making folders and moving files is best done inside C1 as all the relative changes stay with the file and if there’s one surefire way to crash C1 5.1, it’s to mess with the file hierarchy outside of C1 while the app is open. Guaranteed to crash almost every single time.

Anyway, just my 2cents. Would love to hear all your love/hate responses, and if anyone is using V5.1 with Leaf I’d love to hear about that too.

Hey Gang, I’m on set, but just noticed that there is a new C1 5.1 out, and from the looks of the release notes, there could be some very good things in this one. Biggest thing I’m looking for is speed, which they say is addressed, as well as doing crop ratios direct in the crop tool instead of the process recipe. More to come but gotta go. -z

Hey Techs,

I’ve never been a fan of hard drive a long term archiving media but the reality is everyone finds to too cheap and convenient to ignore. Well after reading this article I started thinking that the technique outlined in the relating article might be worth doing as a just in case. Well typing command lines 190 times didn’t appeal so here is an app that runs the command with less effort. This is completely harmless to the data on the drives but does take a long time to run and at the moment can only run on one drive at a time. If the interest is there I will work on it to run on multiple drives. Enjoy.

Hey all, just a quick tip I just figured out that I thought I would share. I am sitting here this evening trying to update all my software and I realized that I don’t have the installation disk for the EOS Utility. You know…the one that Canon requires you install BEFORE you update the software. Well it turns out that if you copy the installer file to your desktop, the ctrl+click on the app, then show package content, you can browse to the resources folder and find update.plist. Delete it and then you are good to install from the updater. Works without a hitch.

I had a two day shoot last week, setup on a quad-core tower, using Capture One 5.0.2 and a Nikon D3x. I have to say that Nikon has really stepped up their game with the last few cameras they came out with. Some of the controls are less convoluted than with the Canon. Its a surprise that this is only the first shoot I’ve ever had with this camera. Much like the Canon line of lenses, the nikons best glass are in the prime lenses. The auto-focus is also least to be desired.

My main issue was with the software, lots of bugs and I’ve made a list:

- Capture numbering continuos, will not reset to one on new shot.
- Capture format keeps reverting back to “Name and 4 digit counter”
- Cannot use underscore in name box, only dash (you can in version 5.0)
- Camera connection locks up intermittently.
- Images very slow to render
- Image selection will not keep up unless you set to Auto Select New Capture to Immediately (then you wait for render)
- Most setting sliders are slow to react, especially when captures are coming in.
- Lots of crashing while trying to process, especially if you add images to the queue too quickly

Some pet peeves with this release that really bother me are:

- the whole set as compare variant thing gets really annoying. You have to be in your “multi-view” for it to work.
- The speed of capturing is really slow, but to give credit where credit is due, I have not tested this with a digital back.
- Still really missing a loupe tool, guys !!!!
- When I add folder as a capture folder, it should automatically be added as a favorite, no?

I’d be curious to know if others have been having these problems or similar and if so, which systems are you using this with?

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