RSVP for Our May 7 Event & Get a Free 16×20 Print

1) Come to our Miami Beach photo get together 2) Take a tour of The Color House 3) Submit your digital image to be printed Solve Your Color Calibration Problems And Meet Your Fellow Photographers 5/07/08. See a P45+, Eizo 24″ & LightJet Print in a Unified Workflow RSVP Below for our Miami Beach Photo Get Together and put your color calibration problems behind you May 7, 2008 at 6:30pm … Read More →

RSVP for our May 7 get together

Solve Your Color Calibration Problems And Meet Your Fellow Photographers 5/07/08. See a P45+, Eizo 24″ & LightJet Print in a Unified Workflow RSVP Below for our Miami Beach Photo Get Together and put your color calibration problems behind you May 7, 2008 at 6:30pm above The Color House (map). Come at 6:30pm to meet your fellow photographers and try high-end gear from Phase One, Mamiya, Profoto, Canon, Apple, Hasselblad, … Read More →

Multipop Device works with Hasselblad H1, H2

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At a customer’s request I checked to see if our Multi-Strobe-Pop device would work with the Hasselblad H1/H2 body. In short, this setup will work if you 1) tape over the communication pins on the digital back and 2) disable”Magazine Exposure Lock” (custom option #6, or #11 depending on firmware, look for the name “Magazine Exposure Lock”) on the body. More details after the jump.

Mac Computer Performance

I came across this digest of mac computer benchmarks today. For the uninitiated the benchmark used here was GeekBench which measures raw processing and memory power. Hard drive speed, graphics card performance, and other factors which come into play in the real world are not taken into account with this benchmark, so for instance the MacBookPro and MacBook score similarly even though real world performance may differ. Even so, this … Read More →

Phase One Body

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New Phase One Body Improved shutter speed range 1/4000th – 60 minutes New AF motor with 3 AF points New digital board Improved dial, shutter, grip ergonomics, AF lever (for AF mode selection) Ready for 120 frames per minute Ready for leaf shutters, expected 2008 Value Added Warranty: 3 year or 300,000 actuations (body and lens) Classic Warranty: 1 year or 100,000 actuations (body and lens) Compatible with Mamiya MF … Read More →

Atlanta’s tornado

Atlanta’s tornado

I was out of town on vacation when the F2 tornado hit downtown Atlanta. Luckily the SEC between Alabama and Mississippi went into overtime. If it had not, there could have been several thousand people heading back to their hotels or cars and the casualties could have been unbelievable. Our office is only about one mile from where it hit and we were spared, but I wanted to see what … Read More →

High Dynamic Range – Highlight and Shadow Recovery

HDR Comparison Using Capture One 4.0

Overview of HDR Phase One digital backs capture tremendous dynamic range. The new HDR adjustments in Capture One 4.0 taps into this dynamic range to easily recover clean, accurate, and natural detail from deep shadow and blown-out highlights. The process is simple and straight forward. Best of all, using Capture One 4.0 you can compare different variations (see image to the right) of HDR, exposure, and contrast to create exactly … Read More →

Multiple Strobe Pops for Interior Lighting with Phase One

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This article is was contributed by our valued customer, Jeffrey Totaro. You can check out his website at www.jeffreytotaro.com. If you are a customer and have a technique to share with the community please contact Capture Integration. _ Digital photography provides many excellent solutions to photographic challenges. But coming from 4×5 film I missed one previously film-only technique: multiple strobe pops while shooting interiors. I have developed a unique switch-box … Read More →