Josh Booth

Photokina Journal – Day 1 (continued)

Posted on 2014/09/17 3:30 PM by Josh Booth / No comments

Good internet is hard to come by. While finding a reliable internet connection proved difficult, I had a lot of fun running around Photokina and experiencing it for the first time. Photokina was completely overwhelming for me and by the end of day 1, I was spent. Here is some of what I encountered my first day at Photokina. Another great item I noticed today was the Mindshift backpack. With … Read More →

Capture One Pro 8 has been tested…..

Posted on 2014/09/17 12:00 PM by Josh Booth

As we all know, Capture One Pro 8 was announced and released yesterday at Photokina. Capture Integration has been beta testing it since Beta 1 and are extremely pleased with the results. For maximum stability, Phase One focuses this release on the current Mac OS only and the future release of OS X 10.10 Yosemite. I have personally beta tested on both OS’s and am more than pleased with the … Read More →

Quick Tip: Where Are My Processed Images?

Posted on 2014/08/14 2:29 PM by Josh Booth / No comments

Where are my processed images? A common question we receive in our Tech Support department is something along the lines of “It doesn’t matter where I change the output location, the images are going to some other folder!” At first glance everything seems to be set up correctly, yet often times it’s a simple setting that can be easily fixed. Here are the two most common places to check: The … Read More →

FPS Shuttertest No 2

Posted on 2014/07/16 12:00 PM by Josh Booth

Reposted from http://www.alpa.ch/en/news/2014/fps-shuttertest2.html FPS Shuttertest No 2 We got an overwhelmingly positive response on our first test and the shutter memory game. Some customers asked if we could show results from several more exposure settings. So we did this quick test in the neighborhood yesterday evening with more shutter time variants.The target was performed along the street with the tower of the University of Zurich in the center (distance … Read More →

The Big ALPA FPS Shutter Memory Game

Posted on 2014/07/14 4:00 PM by Josh Booth

Reposted from http://www.alpa.ch/en/news/2014/fps-shutter-memorygame.html Customers recently asked which shutter is less prone to vibration – the Copal or the FPS focal plane shutter – as they never run into a visible issue when using their ALPA 12 FPS. We did some fun testing. Find out yourselves with our FPS shutter memory game. The test was set up like a standard photographic situation (indoor, sets A/B) on a Gitzo GT 3541L carbon … Read More →

Capture One Quick Tip: Sneaky Feature in 7.2.3

Posted on 2014/07/11 4:35 PM by Josh Booth / No comments

New Hidden Feature Phase One recently released Capture One Pro 7.2.3 containing mostly bug fixes and adding additional support for cameras and lenses. One feature they didn’t even mention, however, was an organizational improvement in the Library tool. In 7.2.2 and earlier, when adding a folder to Favorites, you only saw the exact folder that was added as the favorite, without any quick way to see subfolders. In Capture One … Read More →

Capture One 7.2.3 Tested & Approved

Posted on 2014/07/11 3:17 PM by Josh Booth

This is a service release providing additional supported cameras and lenses and some bug fixes. We have thoroughly tested this release and not found any issues that would prevent acceptable use in a professional workflow, but some issues are still present from previous versions. **We have found a glitch with XMP syncing and certain color tags on Raw files – changing a color tag to purple may switch to … Read More →

New Alpa Products

Posted on 2014/07/10 2:30 PM by Josh Booth

Introducing the latest offerings from ALPA of Switzerland: ALPA 12 XY Mark IV Body (and Upgrade Kit) 010.800.018, 010.800.118 The ALPA 12 XY MK IV is the newest iteration of the ALPA 12 XY camera. Incredibly useful for extreme stitching and studio work, this new version now features lockable shift knobs. Maintaining the tradition of flexibility, older ALPA 12 XY cameras can be upgraded via the Mark IV Upgrade kit. … Read More →

Capture One Quick Tip: Save Smart Albums for Easy Access between Sessions

Posted on 2014/07/08 11:08 AM by Josh Booth / No comments

Smart Albums Smart Albums (C1’s equivalent to Smart Collections for you former Lightroom users) are an extremely useful tool within Capture One for organizing your images on the fly. At their most basic level, Smart Albums are a saved search that continually & automatically updates. You can search and filter through any images related to a particular session – including images in folders marked as Favorite. There are many uses for … Read More →

Capture One 7.2.3 Released

Posted on 2014/07/07 10:17 AM by Josh Booth / No comments

This is a service release providing mostly camera and lens support and bug fixes. We are currently testing this release; we do not recommend upgrading into a critical workflow until our testing with this release is complete. Read on for more details about the update, or visit our Download Archive to get it. Bug Fixes for Mac Fixed a bug relating to ratings & filters being applied incorrectly Fixed a bug … Read More →