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I wonder whether it's a hardware issue?either Phase One’s programming team is incompetent and doesn’t know how or they just aren’t working on it with any sense of urgency.
I agree. My fear is that they will come out with an IQ5150 and expect us to buy a $20K upgrade to get features we had every reason to expect in the current back. Personally, I'm getting off the upgrade train. I've lost confidence in Phase One. The only thing Phase can do to satisfy me is to provide the features for zero cost (no upgrades, no app purchases, etc.).If they don't implement a Capture Pilot replacement AND the ability to adjust the electronic shutter directly while in live view for all tech camera users (not just for the XT), I will never buy another back. For me, it is that simple.
Dave
If they don't implement a Capture Pilot replacement AND the ability to adjust the electronic shutter directly while in live view for all tech camera users (not just for the XT), I will never buy another back. For me, it is that simple.
Dave
I am pretty much in the same boat. I swapped from a H6D due to the poor firmware updates and features that were advertised but not in the camera from launch. I had to wait one year for simple functionality like the ability to shoot on a tech camera.I agree. My fear is that they will come out with an IQ5150 and expect us to buy a $20K upgrade to get features we had every reason to expect in the current back. Personally, I'm getting off the upgrade train. I've lost confidence in Phase One. The only thing Phase can do to satisfy me is to provide the features for zero cost (no upgrades, no app purchases, etc.).
Apparently their resources are already stretched to the limit, so spending quite a bit of time and money on all that, plus all the legal and security ramifications doesn't seem wise right now. Plus, what developer wants to spend money on developing functionalities, for an extremely niche product, that the manufacturer allegedly is already working on.Just following this thread out of curiosity.
If I can add my two cents, let me just say that from such high prices and state of the art technologies, and in such contemporary times I'd expect that a platform like the 4150 should offer from the beginning the possibility to script our own functionalities and to have an app store from where we could download new apps with features developed by other people.
If I've understood well the 4150 platform is based on a fully flagged OS underneath. That means this would be easily done by exposing a full set of API and a way to develop and install new functionalities.
Phase One itself could economically benefit from this idea by taking a fee from every app sold in the app store, just like Apple is doing right now.
Nowadays the world in which we are slaves begging for new functionalities made by the hardware vendor should be a past era. Vendors should only provide new hardware platforms and a base software set. A distinct and creative community of photographers and developers should provide new functionalities.
It’s absolutely ridiculous to take this long, and now even Adobe Lightroom supports the IQ4150 but Capture Pilot still doesn’t. As I’ve said before, either Phase One’s programming team is incompetent and doesn’t know how or they just aren’t working on it with any sense of urgency. Very disappointing either way. When people ask me about medium format now I recommend they look at Fuji.
On my smartphone I have various photo apps and use the one that offers best the features I need for the job in hand. Often that is the Apple Photo app, but often it isn't (for once, option of RAW files is still not available.)a platform like the 4150 should offer from the beginning the possibility to script our own functionalities and to have an app store from where we could download new apps with features developed by other people.
Had to think about the Hasselblad CVF-50c digital back I use. Launched in 2014, live-view still sucks, no electronic shutter although the sensor does allow for it.My fear is that they will come out with an IQ5150 and expect us to buy a $20K upgrade to get features we had every reason to expect in the current back.
I've posted the last, I don't know, half dozen times it's come up. As others have said, there isn't anything new to say. So I'll repeat from the past...Surprised the dealers haven’t posted in this thread...
Surprised the dealers haven’t posted in this thread, the response is quite rapid if somebody is considering a P1 purchase.
They have posted in others in the last couple of hours, surely they have a direct line to P1 and can help their customers out?
Just a quick fact check...I may be mistaken, but I believe that this days P1 is more and more a software company. Capture One revenue review is growing a lot.
There is not one week I don't hear about people testing or switching to Capture One.
It could be that they are smelling opportunity and they have all the programmers set to improve C1 first and make it easier to use.
P1 is not a big company. They should talk, but you know, HB does not talk either.