Steve Hendrix

Advanced Phase One XF Gallery Tour Wrap Up

Posted on 2017/10/06 11:06 AM by Steve Hendrix

Today, physical proximity is both underrated and overrated. The cell phone number for every CI team member is listed on the staff page. We have email, text and video-based chat. We’re knowledgeable and we respond before and after standard business hours (what photographer actually works standard business hours?). If our clients need help, if they need information, we have it for them. But as great as modern communications has become, … Read More →

I Shutter To Think: Explorations of the IQ3 100/XF Kit

Posted on 2016/09/06 8:43 PM by Steve Hendrix

How to be really, really …. still!?! Brad Kaye – our Ace Tech Services Manager – and I often collaborate on sticky technical situations that we encounter. It usually goes something like this – “Brad, why the hell is it doing that?” And then Brad either tells me why right away, or he explores and eventually brings the pearl to the surface. So recently, the topic of the Phase One XF … Read More →

Seeing Sideways with the Cambo Actus

Posted on 2016/08/01 4:49 PM by Steve Hendrix

In the summer of 2014, Cambo introduced the Cambo Actus View Camera System, an amazingly small view camera that fits in a Messenger Bag and is compatible with mirrorless cameras, DSLR cameras, medium format digital backs, and accepts a huge variety of lenses that can all then become tilt/shift/swing lenses. What a great development for photographers! First Look: Cambo Actus, A Tiny Miracle If you’ve never experienced the ecstasy of complete … Read More →

First Look: Cambo Actus EF Aperture Controller for Canon

Posted on 2016/02/19 12:43 PM by Steve Hendrix

Last week, Cambo released a new product for their Cambo Actus View Camera, the Cambo EF Aperture Controller. This product, combined with the Cambo Actus, is a game changer. As collaborative partners with Cambo, Capture integration is very excited to have our first shipment of this product and see what capabilities it adds for photographers. If any traditional photographic equipment manufacturer has created a positive model for evolving into the digital age, … Read More →

Capture One Pro Workshop at SCAD

Posted on 2015/02/22 10:21 PM by Steve Hendrix

Capture Integration loves producing workshops for many reasons; We have the opportunity to help our clients understand how to get the most out of Capture One software; We can show them some of the most incredible equipment available for high quality digital capture; Most importantly, we get to meet our clients – who are located all across the country – in person, face to face, and spend some quality time with them. … Read More →

Cambo Actus DB – Big Changes for a Tiny View Camera

Posted on 2015/02/12 2:24 PM by Steve Hendrix

This could be considered Part 2 of – “My gosh, what has Cambo done”? If we jog our memory back to last summer, we saw the release of one of the grooviest products we’ve seen in some time, the Cambo Actus, an unbelievably small view camera for 35mm DSLR and mirrorless cameras. http://205.186.138.113/plesk-site-preview/captureintegration.com/205.186.138.113/first-look-cambo-actus/ While that tiny little view camera has been a hit with our smaller format clients, as one … Read More →

Copal Shutter Repairs On The Rise – Updated

Posted on 2015/01/28 1:45 PM by Steve Hendrix

A must read if you use a Technical Camera or View Camera. This is a re-print/re-edit from an article we posted back in 2010 regarding Copal Shutter repairs, and the recent increase we had seen in the occurrence of those repairs. Since shutter repairs can be expensive, and the original article was posted 4 years ago, I felt it would be a good idea to refresh it and bring it … Read More →

Best Long Exposure results with Phase One & Leaf

Posted on 2015/01/19 1:14 PM by Steve Hendrix

On occasion, I get asked by clients for recommendations on shooting long exposures with a CCD-based Phase One or Leaf digital back purchased from CI. There are, of course, a number of different ways one can achieve a long exposure. All digital backs have options for ISO selection in camera, typically ISO 50, 100, 200, 400, 800. In a typical city-scape night scene, an exposure at f/11 @ ISO 50 … Read More →

Behind the Curtains at Alpa

Posted on 2014/12/18 8:00 AM by Steve Hendrix

A few weeks back, Anthony Festa and I spent 4 days in Zurich at Alpa Headquarters. Capture Integration has been selling and supporting Alpa solutions since late 2013, and this trip was designed to help fill in some knowledge gaps, get to know the entire company more intimately, and deepen our understanding of the products and the philosophy and culture of the company. Alpa’s headquarters is a modest 2 story … Read More →

Top Ten things to know about the Leaf Credo 50

Posted on 2014/09/08 7:00 AM by Steve Hendrix

1) New Sony 50 Megapixel CMOS Sensor Leaf holds a unique position in the medium format digital segment as the first company to create a CMOS product (Leaf CMOST, back in 2004). While that’s a somewhat limited pedigree, we’re excited to see what Leaf extracts out of this new Sony 50 megapixel CMOS sensor. While the Sony sensor is not unique to Leaf, many Leaf owners place a high value … Read More →