My CaptureOne Wish list_ Separate Live View
CaptureOne Wish list
Things I would like to see in future upgrades of C1:
•Faster tethered Live View. ( possibly monochromatic opposed to full colour may make it faster)
•Multiple focusing points. Let me explain what I mean:
I use a technical view camera; the Linhof Techno. Currently I am using my old PhaseOne P25+ on this camera for doing landscapes. I am a philosophical subscriber to the Hinge principal of tilt angles. I am a practicer of maximum depth of field based on the tilted plane of focus. Harold Merklinger and Anders Torger have great articles for anyone that it is interested in the read. Finding the proper TAº and POF can be a visual challenge with ground glass of these cameras. Actually it is a challenge with any view camera ground glass to visually focus accurately. It is a lot easier to do it view LV ( Live View) on a computer screen and I Imagine on OS device for the newer backs ( One day I will own one of these newer backs (Shameless crowd funding may follow)). Instead of having one big LV screen; What about 3 smaller screen based on user selected focus points to do a comparative tilt focus a fine focus for Plane Of Focus placed at ?
•Live View version of C1 only
As I mentioned before, results are more predictable when my back is tethered to my laptop. My current workflow in the field ( which is a work in progress) set up compose, tether, open C1, open LV, find my optimum far distance for POF DOF, tilt focus to foreground, fine tune focus until overall focus is achieved, close C1, put laptop away, stop down to desired aperture, capture image, evaluate histogram, LCC set up, record information such as rise and fall TAº and aperture. I don’t really require C1 in the field other than focus and POF_DOF. Hopefully this still can be part of the C1 software with the option of opening separately. Once again I can only imagine that it would be a huge bonus to the backs that can wirelessly connect to an iPad of iPhone or android device. Please don’t forget the legacy products though.
•The ability to tone down the viewing brightness of LV when using outdoors. Currently I have to use a ND filter.
• A more thorough database of the legacy lenses such as some of the hasselblad CF lenses including the old SWC biagon, the SK APO Digitar view camera lenses suite, Rodenstock Apo digital ( not just the HR series).
I know the masses of C1 users don’t use technical cameras that tilt or swing, but I think there are enough that do and would appreciate the functionality of LV in the field. Furthermore there may be a few users of C1 that have never had the opportunity to study the above practise of view camera discipline.
I remember the first time that I talked to a PhaseOne rep back in 2000 ( I believe). One of the things he said was that we don’t build the chips, we make them better by using patented cooling for the backs and software design. He also said that he believed PhaseOne had the best software code writers for optimization of the digital backs, and that a lot of request from photographers were not that difficult to do. Are my wants too difficult? Are they doable?
CaptureOne, I look forward to your response. Please do.
Other forum members your comments and ideas are welcomed even if you think that my ideas are wrong ( which they could be), and yours within in the same vein are superior. I may not be able to reply that quickly just because sometimes life gets in the way and it may be a beautiful day out, but I will reply unless my requests are simply a dead issue.
Cheers
Juan
Things I would like to see in future upgrades of C1:
•Faster tethered Live View. ( possibly monochromatic opposed to full colour may make it faster)
•Multiple focusing points. Let me explain what I mean:
I use a technical view camera; the Linhof Techno. Currently I am using my old PhaseOne P25+ on this camera for doing landscapes. I am a philosophical subscriber to the Hinge principal of tilt angles. I am a practicer of maximum depth of field based on the tilted plane of focus. Harold Merklinger and Anders Torger have great articles for anyone that it is interested in the read. Finding the proper TAº and POF can be a visual challenge with ground glass of these cameras. Actually it is a challenge with any view camera ground glass to visually focus accurately. It is a lot easier to do it view LV ( Live View) on a computer screen and I Imagine on OS device for the newer backs ( One day I will own one of these newer backs (Shameless crowd funding may follow)). Instead of having one big LV screen; What about 3 smaller screen based on user selected focus points to do a comparative tilt focus a fine focus for Plane Of Focus placed at ?
•Live View version of C1 only
As I mentioned before, results are more predictable when my back is tethered to my laptop. My current workflow in the field ( which is a work in progress) set up compose, tether, open C1, open LV, find my optimum far distance for POF DOF, tilt focus to foreground, fine tune focus until overall focus is achieved, close C1, put laptop away, stop down to desired aperture, capture image, evaluate histogram, LCC set up, record information such as rise and fall TAº and aperture. I don’t really require C1 in the field other than focus and POF_DOF. Hopefully this still can be part of the C1 software with the option of opening separately. Once again I can only imagine that it would be a huge bonus to the backs that can wirelessly connect to an iPad of iPhone or android device. Please don’t forget the legacy products though.
•The ability to tone down the viewing brightness of LV when using outdoors. Currently I have to use a ND filter.
• A more thorough database of the legacy lenses such as some of the hasselblad CF lenses including the old SWC biagon, the SK APO Digitar view camera lenses suite, Rodenstock Apo digital ( not just the HR series).
I know the masses of C1 users don’t use technical cameras that tilt or swing, but I think there are enough that do and would appreciate the functionality of LV in the field. Furthermore there may be a few users of C1 that have never had the opportunity to study the above practise of view camera discipline.
I remember the first time that I talked to a PhaseOne rep back in 2000 ( I believe). One of the things he said was that we don’t build the chips, we make them better by using patented cooling for the backs and software design. He also said that he believed PhaseOne had the best software code writers for optimization of the digital backs, and that a lot of request from photographers were not that difficult to do. Are my wants too difficult? Are they doable?
CaptureOne, I look forward to your response. Please do.
Other forum members your comments and ideas are welcomed even if you think that my ideas are wrong ( which they could be), and yours within in the same vein are superior. I may not be able to reply that quickly just because sometimes life gets in the way and it may be a beautiful day out, but I will reply unless my requests are simply a dead issue.
Cheers
Juan
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