Quentin_Bargate
Well-known member
Hi all
The H4D-50 has arrived along with the 120mm macro and 50mm F/3.5 lenses. I have not had that much time to experiment with it, and the only image from it I can show you at the moment is a shot for stock fairly heavily compressed and reduced hugely in size now used as a spash image at my companion RF stock site here that I quite liked.
The camera is easy enough to use, although it is big. Resolution is silly, but in a good way. Enough real estate to crop a lot and still have a useable file but this does mean that camera shake is more noticeable because there is so much data. I am using a bracket with the camera which is geared spoecifically to allow me to switch between portait and landscape modes without moving a ball head etc. It is a good device, well designed.
True Focus seems to work!
Shooting tethered is easy, but Phocus is not as intuitive as I would like. I still don't understand its colour management when exporting a processed file. Maybe someone can help me out here on how to embed a profile, say Adobe 1998, when saving out as a Tiff file, or if not what profile to apply when opening a processed file in Photoshop. I thought I udnerstood colour management but I seem puzzled by Phocus.
Great files though, no artifacts whatsoever even at 200%..
More later.
Quentin
The H4D-50 has arrived along with the 120mm macro and 50mm F/3.5 lenses. I have not had that much time to experiment with it, and the only image from it I can show you at the moment is a shot for stock fairly heavily compressed and reduced hugely in size now used as a spash image at my companion RF stock site here that I quite liked.
The camera is easy enough to use, although it is big. Resolution is silly, but in a good way. Enough real estate to crop a lot and still have a useable file but this does mean that camera shake is more noticeable because there is so much data. I am using a bracket with the camera which is geared spoecifically to allow me to switch between portait and landscape modes without moving a ball head etc. It is a good device, well designed.
True Focus seems to work!
Shooting tethered is easy, but Phocus is not as intuitive as I would like. I still don't understand its colour management when exporting a processed file. Maybe someone can help me out here on how to embed a profile, say Adobe 1998, when saving out as a Tiff file, or if not what profile to apply when opening a processed file in Photoshop. I thought I udnerstood colour management but I seem puzzled by Phocus.
Great files though, no artifacts whatsoever even at 200%..
More later.
Quentin