Woody Campbell
Workshop Member
I thought that I might start a thread for ideas for changes in Phocus and for firmware upgrades for the current H3D:
1. FlexColor includes an option when you are shooting tethered that permits you to designate an exposure as a white reference and to correct exposures accordingly (for vignetting and color shifts as well as white balance). This is essential when shooting non-HC wides to eliminate color shifts. The problems: it only works tethered in FlexColor and doesn't exist in Phocus. This feature needs to be added to Phocus. It also needs to be available for non-tethered shooting. (Note that Capture One offers this feature for C1 backs.) Not having this feature severely limits the usefulness of Hasselblad backs on third-party bodies such as Alpa and Horseman, particularly with wide angle lenses. I need help on this one since I've got a Horseman and a 35mm Digitar on order. I'll be shooting with an Imagebank rather than tethered.
2. Firmware idea: the H3D's exposure bracketing is limited to exposure increments of one stop or less. Extended dynamic range applications (such as Photomatix Pro) require brackets at two stop intervals. It should be fairly simply to modify the firmware to permit larger increments.
3. Another firmware idea: permit focus bracketing. The Hy6 evidently does this. It would be very useful in a number of situations - in my case I use Helicon Focus fairly frequently.
4. Yet another firmware idea: Broaden the choice for user-programable buttons to include basically any setting on the camera or the back. For example it would be nice in the field to be able to quickly cycle through lcd brightness settings or when working handheld to cycle through mirror delay settings.
5. Finally, again on Phocus - I hope as the authors get close to the final version they spend some time optimizing it for speed. It's actually not bad for imports and exports, but in working with a large group of these very large files milliseconds count. On screen responsiveness is quite slow on my 2x4 core 3 ghz Mac - I'm aware of the video card issue and have ordered an upgrade - but it seems to me that responsiveness ought to be better on the hardware that I have.
Please add any thoughts that any of you may have. Let's hope that someone is watching
1. FlexColor includes an option when you are shooting tethered that permits you to designate an exposure as a white reference and to correct exposures accordingly (for vignetting and color shifts as well as white balance). This is essential when shooting non-HC wides to eliminate color shifts. The problems: it only works tethered in FlexColor and doesn't exist in Phocus. This feature needs to be added to Phocus. It also needs to be available for non-tethered shooting. (Note that Capture One offers this feature for C1 backs.) Not having this feature severely limits the usefulness of Hasselblad backs on third-party bodies such as Alpa and Horseman, particularly with wide angle lenses. I need help on this one since I've got a Horseman and a 35mm Digitar on order. I'll be shooting with an Imagebank rather than tethered.
2. Firmware idea: the H3D's exposure bracketing is limited to exposure increments of one stop or less. Extended dynamic range applications (such as Photomatix Pro) require brackets at two stop intervals. It should be fairly simply to modify the firmware to permit larger increments.
3. Another firmware idea: permit focus bracketing. The Hy6 evidently does this. It would be very useful in a number of situations - in my case I use Helicon Focus fairly frequently.
4. Yet another firmware idea: Broaden the choice for user-programable buttons to include basically any setting on the camera or the back. For example it would be nice in the field to be able to quickly cycle through lcd brightness settings or when working handheld to cycle through mirror delay settings.
5. Finally, again on Phocus - I hope as the authors get close to the final version they spend some time optimizing it for speed. It's actually not bad for imports and exports, but in working with a large group of these very large files milliseconds count. On screen responsiveness is quite slow on my 2x4 core 3 ghz Mac - I'm aware of the video card issue and have ordered an upgrade - but it seems to me that responsiveness ought to be better on the hardware that I have.
Please add any thoughts that any of you may have. Let's hope that someone is watching