Live view quality bad
Hello,
I had a trial of Capture one 8 which I used with my Canon 5d mk ii. That trial ran out and then version 9 was released. In the meantime, I moved camera brands to Nikon and the Nikon d750. With the release of Capture One 9 I was able to once again trial the software, thanks! It's very good to be able to try a piece of software for this long.
My issue is that I have noticed some differences between the live view on Nikon compared with on my old Canon. Specifically, it is much lower quality. So much so that it is difficult to achieve accurate focus.
On the Canon I never really thought about it (it worked). Most options are greyed out with Canon and Nikon, hence there aren't many things to change anyway. On Canon, the video feed was low quality until you zoomed in, which I also had to do on the camera itself, but once I did the feed became very good quality and I could easily focus from within C1.
With the Nikon the feed never becomes of a good enough quality to focus. When you double click with the hand (100%) the feed gets noticeably better, however, it is still not great. No way near as sharp as the Canon was. What I have noticed is that even when EPV is off the aperture still has a significant impact on the quality of live view. I'm shooting products and am regularly at camera settings equal to roughly ISO 100 f11 and 1/200. As such you can't use EPV as, even with 250w modelling lights, it's still quite dark.
With EPV off, at those settings, the live view is atrocious. If I open the aperture up to the lenses maximum it does improve but is still pretty bad. In addition, I've noticed that when you then stop the lens back down the focus seems to shift.
I've tried everything that I can think of and hence would love some advice / opinions from people here.
Thanks
I had a trial of Capture one 8 which I used with my Canon 5d mk ii. That trial ran out and then version 9 was released. In the meantime, I moved camera brands to Nikon and the Nikon d750. With the release of Capture One 9 I was able to once again trial the software, thanks! It's very good to be able to try a piece of software for this long.
My issue is that I have noticed some differences between the live view on Nikon compared with on my old Canon. Specifically, it is much lower quality. So much so that it is difficult to achieve accurate focus.
On the Canon I never really thought about it (it worked). Most options are greyed out with Canon and Nikon, hence there aren't many things to change anyway. On Canon, the video feed was low quality until you zoomed in, which I also had to do on the camera itself, but once I did the feed became very good quality and I could easily focus from within C1.
With the Nikon the feed never becomes of a good enough quality to focus. When you double click with the hand (100%) the feed gets noticeably better, however, it is still not great. No way near as sharp as the Canon was. What I have noticed is that even when EPV is off the aperture still has a significant impact on the quality of live view. I'm shooting products and am regularly at camera settings equal to roughly ISO 100 f11 and 1/200. As such you can't use EPV as, even with 250w modelling lights, it's still quite dark.
With EPV off, at those settings, the live view is atrocious. If I open the aperture up to the lenses maximum it does improve but is still pretty bad. In addition, I've noticed that when you then stop the lens back down the focus seems to shift.
I've tried everything that I can think of and hence would love some advice / opinions from people here.
Thanks
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I would suggest you create a Support Case and raise the issue. You can do that whilst trialling.
I don't recall any previous reports like this so it seems likely that it is not a generic problem - but then you never know.
As a Canon user I have no idea what the Nikon results are like.
HTH.
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Thanks for the reply.
I created one some time ago, before getting a little frustrated and deciding to come here instead. The responses were very slow, although my last message to them was on the 23rd so I can understand the delay. I've not heard back from that message but in all honesty I'm not anticipating much.
Every message I've got from them so far has not been too helpful. I describe the issue and receive an email back which doesn't address the points I have raised. Almost a canned response which simply describes what certain settings do but doesn't even touch on the very clear difference I've noticed between Canon and Nikon.
I'm pretty settled on buying C1 but I'd love some kind of solution to this.
Anyway, thanks again for your response and happy new year!0 -
Just in case anybody else experiences this issue. Here is the final reply I received from Phase One:
"Hi Max,
Sorry for not getting back to you sooner. Turns out this is an issue with Nikon camera live view.
Currently, Nikon is only useful in P, Av, or Tv modes, where the camera is responsible for adjusting exposure. In M mode, no auto-exposure is done in the camera firmware to the images delivered to Capture One, and thus they tend to appear black, unless there is sufficient lighting. None of the described functionality in this issue is a bug and is expected behavior.
Kind regards,
Phase One Technical Support"
As I suspected there is no solution to this. Live view is significantly lower quality with Nikon than Canon. Nonetheless, I am disappointed to hear there is nothing that can be done. Capture One remains the best program for tethered capture I just wish the live view was as good as Canons. It has such a big impact on ease of use when doing product photography.
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Would adding to the lighting of the subject during preparation of the shot be an option? If so would it be helpful for your needs? (I suppose there are situations where it might be better not to have extra lighting for various reasons.)
Grant0
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