An Honest Discussion

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• January 23, 2005 18:13

While I find many post talking about the problems when it comes to tethering by a third party camera manufacture, I would like to discuss why phase one doesn't/can't solve the problem. I hope someone from phase one looks at this post because many users could benefit from this discussion

For instance while I like the software, love my mac powerbook and now am looking at switching from my hasselblad to a slr digital camera I'm discouraged like so many that the tethering option is not really an option unless you have time to switch back and forth or have a digital back. While the digital back will support my blad, I just don’t have $20,000 for a back.

It seems like the market share for phase one could be expanded if it could \"capture\" the market share of those like me who are looking at a canon slr. Is the reason why phase one doesn't focus on this issue is because 1) their are so many third party camera manf. that it would be impossible to have the tethering mode supported?

2) The little market share they have from digital backs would be lost since digital slr are approaching the same level of digital backs and would lose the business in digital backs.


It seems with companies like Bibble, and maybe soon adobe that the option to support tethered will overlook the great software that pros look for at capture one.

So please, Phase one help me to understand why I cant shoot with the same speed and ease of use that I can if I buy your digital back. I should also mentiond that Helix. con has a note that you can shoot tethered with pc's and only with canon cameras.

Your thoughts?

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  Ulf Liljegren

  • January 24, 2005 20:50

  I will try to answer your questions.
  
  1. Phase One it self can not \"make\" the tethered support for more then our own cameras, we have to rely on OEM components which the manufacture for each individual camera type provides.
  In the case of Canon for example we have had a great deal of problems with the components Canon has provides and where by we could not guarantee nor support the Canon cameras on the Mac platform, on the Windows platform they proved to be reliable where we also have \"Official\" support for the 1D and the 1Ds.
  New components package have been released since then and we are now looking in to implement this.
  Nikon and Fuji are not as good as Canon to hand out this kind of components and the market share (our demand) is not as big as the Canon where cost of implementation might not justify the development time for implementing this.
  
  2. This has been said a long time now, If you compare a H5 with a Nikon D1x both 6mp or today a P20 with a Canon 1Ds MkII which are both 16mp, you will quickly realise the difference between Small format and Medium / Large Format photography,

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  mtomalty

  • February 02, 2005 05:07

  [quote2. This has been said a long time now, If you compare a P20 with a Canon 1Ds MkII which are both 16mp, you will quickly realise the difference between Small format and Medium / Large Format photography,[/quote]
  
  Agreed. But if you have to work in an enviroment where iso requirements
  exceed 200iso or lenses with maximum openings greater than f 2.8-4.0
  are neccessary you also quickly realize the differences between
  Small and Medium format as well.
  Tunnel vision is not beneficial to anyone,I think
  
  Mark

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