Arca Cube Quick Release Fix

The Arca Swiss Cube is the best tripod head in the world. We have sold many of these to landscape and architectural photographers for whom the quick and precise ability to level both axis regardless of whether the tripod is flat and then, on a flat surface, pan left and right. At the top of the Arca Swiss Cube is a quick release for the nearly universal Arca Swiss quick … Read More →

Formating CF cards for Leaf in 10.6

Formatting CF cards for use in Leaf Digital Backs on a Mac computer running OSX 10.6 Snow Leopard requires that you Select Options > Master Boot Record under the formatting options in the Disk Utility. For full instructions download and read this Leaf Support PDF.

New Extreme III/IV NOT compatible

OldAndNewSandiskIII

SanDisk has been selling CF cards using the moniker “Extreme III” and “Extreme IV” for several years. There is now a new version of the Extreme III and Extreme IV series which does NOT work with Phase One P+ backs running firmware lower than 4.8. It is not unusual for cameras to not support new generation cards right away. What makes this worth a blog entry and your attention is … Read More →

Capture One 5.0.2 Released

Phase One has just posted a minor maintenance release, version 5.0.2. (download) The only significant change in this version is a bug-fix for a rare error involving LCCs applied to EIP files. As of today we recommend you only download/install the update if you use or might use LCCs in conjunction with EIP files. We will investigate further to see if there are any other benefits. If you do update … Read More →

Windows 3.7.X "Trial Version Expired"

Windows 3.7.X "Trial Version Expired"

Capture One 3.7.X for Windows contains the equivalent of a Y2K issue which triggered on Jan 1, 2010. If you are still using version 3.7.X we strongly suggest that you upgrade to version 5.0.1 which Capture Integration endorses as being a fast, powerful, high-quality, and most importantly, stable version. However, in an effort to support customers who purchased Capture One 3.X and do not wish to upgrade to version 5 … Read More →

Rear-Button-Focus-Only on DF Body

In the Miami office our customers very frequently want to set a camera so that a button on the rear (used with your thumb) will activate the Autofocus system but the shutter release does not. This is useful if you wish to shoot multiple frames after a focus-and-recompose. More Information on why you would want to set the camera this way. On just about every camera this requires changing a … Read More →

Capture One 5 Released

Capture Integration is working furiously to evaluate the newly released Capture One 5. Our sales and technical teams are already using the new version for personal shoots (tethered and untethered) and is working closely both with Denmark and our community of digital techs to evaluate it for professional workflow usage. There are a LOT of new features in Capture One 5 that we cannot wait to share with our customers. … Read More →

Capture One 4.8.3 Released

Today Capture One 4.8.3 was released. Capture Integration does it’s own independent testing of all Capture One releases. As a general guideline we do not recommend adopting new OS versions until at least a month or two after release; however, as a service to those who wish to tinker we have prepared a Snow Leopard Mac Pro and Snow Leopard Unibody 15″ MBP for testing with a Canon 5DII, 1Ds … Read More →

Upgrading to Capture One 4 Pro

Some of our users are still using Capture One 3.7.x. This note is a “kick in the butt” for those users. Capture One 4 had a rocky start early in it’s release. However, Capture One 4 Pro is now very fast, very stable, and has lots of great features improved from C1 3. All users of Capture One 3 Pro are entitled to a free upgrade to Capture One 4 … Read More →

Snow Leopard Compatibility List

Recently we posted about Capture One’s (lack of) compatibility with OSX Snow Leopard and reiterated our standard advice that upgrading to a new OS immediately is very inadvisable. For completeness: here is a resource which lists various applications’ compatibility (or lack thereof) with this new operating system. http://snowleopard.wikidot.com/ Without a doubt most mac programs which are still being developed will be made compatible with Snow Leopard quickly (weeks or months). … Read More →