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Hands On: Schneider 120mm Tilt-Shift

Posted on 2010/09/21 4:02 PM by admin

Today at the Phase One booth at Photokina we got a chance to play hands on with the Schneider 120mm Tilt-Shift lens. Four things struck me that weren’t obvious from the press release: It’s much larger than I expected, physically It’s much lighter than I expected, weight-wise It’s got shockingly few glass elements The mechanics of the lens are some of the best I’ve felt Anyone who has used or … Read More →

Capture Integration Bips Invade Kina

Posted on 2010/09/21 3:46 PM by Dave Gallagher

Capture Integration Bip – Now in stock – $19.95 Our soft releases reduce camera shake, some experts recommend gently squeezing the shutter release button. Unfortunately, the recessed design of many shutter releases makes squeezing off shots difficult. The Capture Integration Bips screw into the shutter release button, thus raising it and overcoming the problem – allowing you to take hand-held shots at slower shutter speeds. Plus they just look really … Read More →

Upcoming Leica S2 Tethering Improvements

Posted on 2010/09/21 3:07 PM by admin

Among our meetings today at Photokina we met privately with Leica. In attendance was Stephan Schulz the Product Manager of Leica’s S-System. While Dave was excited to talk about lens delivery schedules, promotion/marketing of workshops, etc etc I was very excited to meet with Stephan and see a demonstration of soon to be released firmware for the Leica S2. Every camera has strengths and weaknesses and the Leica S2 is … Read More →

Phase One Partner of the Year, 2010

Posted on 2010/09/21 2:29 PM by Dave Gallagher

September 21, 2010, Cologne, Germany: Once every two years Phase One hosts an international dealer conference and invites its top partners from around the world to share marketing, sales techniques, and to view the road map of the company for the next 24 months. The partner conference coincides with Photokina in Cologne, Germany, the largest photographic trade show globally. At this meeting, Phase One singles out a Partner that it … Read More →

Leaf Aptus-II 12 & Aptus-II 12R

Posted on 2010/09/20 3:00 AM by admin

Introducing the Leaf Aptus-II 12 Leaf Imaging announces today the Leaf Aptus-II 12 and Aptus-II 12R 80 Megapixel 53.7mm x 40.3mm sensor size (full frame 645) 10,320 pixels x 7,752 pixels 1.5 seconds per frame continuous capture ISO 80-800 480 MB 16-bit TIFF 16 bit Color Native Print Size Comparison (300dpi) For more information and comparison to the other Aptus-II digital backs see our Aptus-II page. 100% Crop Example Click above for … Read More →

New Lenses for Phase One System

Posted on 2010/09/19 7:27 AM by admin

Adding to an already strong line of lenses available for the Phase One DF platform, today Phase One and Schneider announced four new lenses for the Phase One DF Platform. Phase One 35mm f/ 3.5 D Compact Fast AF Minimum focusing distance of 1.5 feet (45 cm) $1990 USD Phase One 120mm f/4 D Macro AF Up to 1:1 Magnification Limiter Switch for faster Auto Focus (70cm +) $3590 USD … Read More →

Capture One 5.2.1

Posted on 2010/09/15 9:23 AM by admin

Capture One 5.2.1 has been released with a set of specific bug fixes from the major 5.2 release. Capture Integration will be testing this new version of Capture One. Until then we recommend customers follow the same general advice as always. If you are a professional photographer depending on your computer as a tool to accomplish his work that you should not update their software or operating-system until: the update … Read More →

120mm Tilt Shift for DF

Posted on 2010/09/14 11:19 AM by admin

Schneider has announced a 120mm Tilt Shift Lens for the Phase One / Mamiya DF. We’ll do our best to get technical specifications posted here soon! Schneider-120mm-TS (downloadable PDF) See Update with Technical Specifications

Never Done Working

Posted on 2010/09/14 10:39 AM by admin

By Doug Peterson, Head of Technical Services Dave Gallagher, Owner and President of Capture Integration is on a short vacation through Europe on the way to Photokina. However, not one to rest while on vacation he checked in early this morning via iChat video from outside a castle in France to see what needed to be done to serve our customers.

Rumor: Phase One 35mm Lens

Posted on 2010/09/14 10:12 AM by admin

The release notes for Capture One 5.2 refer to an interesting improvement. This improvement in Capture One is most notable in that there is no current product named “Phase One 35mm lens”. There is an older “Mamiya 35mm” which is not as strong in performance as the “Phase One 45mm”. Perhaps this is a sign of things to come. Or perhaps it is a typo. We will know in a … Read More →