I would like to hear from Phocus users and their experience with the software.
The last tests I did with an H3D II 39, Phocus wasn't out, so I'd like to hear some experienced opinions before I test the camera and software next week.
I realise I will some of my questions will be self explanitory once I've treid the software, but it woud be helpul to have a good understanding and a little idea of the way it should work, to better judge its performance.
I'm mostly interested in how the software works while tethered to a Macbook Pro.
How fast and how large are the previews in phocus?
Is it possible to make extensive color and tonal presets that are applied to the files and shown in the previews? Can I tweak Phocus so that during the shoot my client sees something close to what the file will look like afterwards?
Can I process Tiffs and Jpegs while shooting, without loosing speed?
Are there interesting functions that will make life easier?
Renaming and cataloging functions? Curves? What about moire? Is there a moire tool that works effectively? How are the sharpening tools? Better to sharpen in Phocus or afterwards in PS3?
How fast is it setting up and getting connected?
How easy is it to set up, set ISO, colors, grey point, choose a destination folder and start shooting?
If the firewire cable is pulled out by accident, can I plug back in a keep shooting?
If I shoot to a CF card and then load the files onto my hard-drive, how easy and fast is it to load the files into Phocus, sort them, tag them, change names, do color corrections and save and process them?
Thanks for sharing your experience.
Kipling