Feature Request Nikon D850 / Z7 / Z7 II "Focus Shift" while tethered
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Nikon D850 / Z7 / Z7 II "Focus Shift" "Focus Stacking"
We should be able to utilize Nikon's "Focus Shift" while tethered in Capture One.
I have also posted to Nikon's site that if a firmware update is needed to support this function, they ought to help on their end.
Nikon users should let Nikon know if they desire this capability.
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Hi Ernest,
Thank you for your feedback on Capture One - we appreciate the time you've taken to contribute to the development of the software.
I have forwarded your suggestions to our Product Management team as something to consider in a future release. Hopefully, your feedback contributes towards a future version of Capture One.
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Jesus, I'm really disappointed. Just bought C1 and that feature is critical to my job and every product photographer. We don't have even an option to pause the connection in order to use in-camera feature. It's a pain in the neck to plug/unplug the USB connector.
Also tried to use Camera Focus tool on C1, Jesus it focuses one step and gets stuck after the first capture, really? I thought we could shift and capture, shift again and capture, so far so on. That's what everyone needs.
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Yes! I need this capability too. I'm a studio product photographer. Its incredibly tedious to not have this feature available when tethered. Please get us an update ASAP. Thank you!!
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I agree that this feature is extremely useful for studio use. I just discovered this limitation today when I went to use it. But isn't it a limitation on the Nikon end?
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@Gabriel, of course not. Helincon Remote offers that feature, It seems like if you want that feature go and buy Helicon Remote, got it?
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@FirstName Last Name, I agree that we need the basics that you mentioned. I just thought the thread was focused on the D850's focus shift features which are not compatible with tethered for some ridiculous reason.
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FirstName LastName: You might possibly misunderstand the process, or issue in question.
In almost any situation, Helicon software is likely to be used to merge the images. If your usual Capture Software is some version of Capture One, and you photograph large numbers of objects while tethered, you ought to be able to use the Nikon focus stacking features, to capture the source images, utilizing capabilities which are already built into certain Nikon cameras, without exiting Capture One. Having to leave the folders, sessions, and catalogs, which you are already working within, and having to exit your usual set up, is clunky, time consuming, and likely to lead to occasionally losing, or misplacing your image files.
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Capture One does NOT allow the Nikon Z7II to utilize its focus stacking capability while tethered. The Helicon plug-in is useless to us tethered studio shooters until Capture One allows the Nikon cameras to utilize all the features that is built in to them.
I would have to shoot to a card to use the Nikon focus stacking feature then import the NEF's to Capture One in order to use Helicon's plug-in.
Hopefully a Capture One update is coming soon that will allow me to use focus stacking while tethered.
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@Ernest Amoroso, sorry about my name, but for some reason, it is not fixing what I've been set, it is a bug's forum. First, I'm not talking about Helicon Focus, I said Helicon Remote, go and check it out. Sec, you don't know what you are talking about, so please dude I appreciate your contribution but it doesn't add too much, I'm a Z6 Nikon user and most here agree with me, we need that feature.
@Nick Thomas, yes it's a pain in the neck and I'm afraid of running into some issues due to handling it many times. Tethered shooting is all about safe files being backed up to my second disk, so it is crucial in my opinion.
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Ricardo: I think we're all on the same "page" here. Nikon camera features ought to be accessible while tethered. Anything which breaks with a normal workflow in a busy day of shooting, is a problem. Especially on larger projects, which may involve hundreds of objects. I hope anyone concerned with this tethered shooting issue will also write to Nikon, since a firmware update might be needed, since the very act of tethering a D850 / Z7 /Z7 II disables the "Focus Shift" feature on the camera.
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Presumably, at this time, the only way to set the Focus Shift feature to take the required sequence of shots and then execute the shift amount for each is to set the camera up to save to a Hot Folder and have Capture One pick up the images from there?
To have Capture One be able to control the camera settings via the full tethering interface would seem to create a need for the code to be adapted to run on the computer and then assume it had sufficient speed for both processing and comms with the camera to control the camera as rapidly as might be required.
Since C1 does not currently offer a merge and process facility is that also a feature that would be necessary in order to obtain beneficial use of "full" tethering compared to the "Hot folder" concept?
What sort of processing is C1 required to undertake on the captured files (no matter which method is used for Capture) before the images are merged using Photoshop, Affinity, Helicon or whatever software one might prefer?
Does some aspect of that work that might be performed in C1 seem to be critical to the process steps in a way that simply cannot be missed out of the workflow before the images are batched and merged in other applications?
I can see why users might wish for C1 to move into the relatively broad concept of batch and merge images but the need for the bulk of the user base to have such access via tethering (and perhaps even understand what we are doing with it) seems less clear.
Might this be the sort of feature that would fit most comfortably with the Enterprise version of C1 alongside the Next Image metadata and barcode reading facilities.?
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The Focus Shift facilities we need as studio photographers tethered to our computers is currently offered using a Phase One EF camera and IQ digital back combination. I'm not sure if there are any other cameras that can utilize the Focus Shift feature in C1.... but Phase certainly makes it available using their camera and back.
From a layman's point of view, if it works with one camera, I would guess the capability should be there for other cameras that also have the feature built in to their systems.
As a person who makes their living shooting products I hope the capability comes very soon to other camera platforms.
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I certainly can't speak for anyone else that has commented on this string. But from my point of view, simply having the ability to use the Nikon "Focus Shift" feature while tethered would be a huge plus. That way the source files would still be found in the "Session" or "Catalog" and not on a camera card (un-tethered shooting) or a separate folder (as might be the case if utilizing something like Helicon Remote.) These situations undermine the organizational benefits of using Capture One Sessions, and Catalogs. Anything beyond simply enabling a tethered Nikon D850 or Z7 to do what it can when it is not tethered, would just be a wonderful bonus.
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I agree, the ability to control these types of camera features while tethered would be a very handy feature within C1. As a workaround, I've started using Live View > Camera Focus with Live View Focus Meter to manually capture stacks without touching the camera. I set my nearest focus point and use the arrows to control the focus steps, which can actually eliminate some of the unnecessary shots in a stack.
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