Is this live-view workflow possible in capture one 12?

Tal Chayon

• 21 de octubre de 2019 04:11

I am a product photographer who is often tinkering around, making countless fine adjustments to the product, lighting, props, etc. I use live-view with settings for my modeling lights to get real-time feedback on adjustments, then switch my settings back to the strobes, and fire. The constant back and forth is tiring. The workflow is much too cumbersome, and I’m looking for some help with it. Here is how I am currently doing things:

On my 5dmkiii, I have created 2 custom profiles. C1 is my exposure settings for the shot (the flashes). C2 is the exposure settings for live view (the modeling lights). When I want to use live-view:

1) I enage live-view from within capture one
2) walk over to the camera, turn the dial to C2
3) tinker with the lighting while watching the live view screen on my computer. When I am ready to fire a shot, I…
4) walk back over to the camera, turn the dial to C1
5) walk over to the computer, disengage live view (my camera won’t engage the hot shoe to fire the flashes when firing from within live view), fire the shot and review. Then, to continue working, I repeat the above process.

I appreciate any help you folks can provide.

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  Ian Wilson

  Moderator

  • 21 de octubre de 2019 07:29

  

  I’m unable to answer your question, but you seem to have managed to post this twice. Perhaps delete one of the copies of the post?
  
  Ian

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  AndyJH

  • 21 de octubre de 2019 16:29

  It sounds like you can achieve exactly the live-view behaviour you want without having to switch custom-modes between shots and previews.
  
  Try disabling "Exposure Simulation" in your 5D3's Live View menu. When you disable this option, the camera's live view preview will automatically adjust to provide a normalized exposure of the scene through-the-lens, regardless of your exposure settings.
  
  I found these instructions for you

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  Tal Chayon

  • 29 de octubre de 2019 04:08

  @AndyJH
  
  Thanks Andy. I tinkered with exposure simulation in the menu, and I found that the only setting that works is "during". As you said, it normalizes the exposure to the modeling lights. Great stuff. This saves me many clicks, so again, many thanks to you. I wonder still if I can streamline this process further, as l would appreciate being to able to fire the camera from set, rather than having to walk back over to the computer, turn off live view, fire, then turn live-view back on. I wish there was a way i could tinker onset while watching the screen, and fire the camera with a one button click. Basically I would somehow tell the software that they, im tinkering in live view, so when i fire, automatically turn off live view, fire, then turn live view back on, There have to be many people out here that would appreciate this workflow. Thanks in advance for any further ideas.

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  AndyJH

  • 29 de octubre de 2019 21:15

  Great! Glad that worked.
  
  RE: Toggling live-view on/off....is it not possible to capture an image during tethered live-view using the shortcut Ctrl/Cmd+K?
  
  At the risk of shameless self-promotion I've worked on a controller that integrates with C1 and we had no problems getting it to fire the camera shutter while tethered live-view is active. Example here: https://youtu.be/-sFTKvFUMbM?t=46

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