I agree that the lack of the 10.5 requirement notice in advance further back than the day before the launch is a dropped ball on our part. That thought was in my head even before the first post about it. I've always felt with product delays that communication through the course of the delay is important but very few companies seem to handle that well.
I operate on the premise that there is always room for improvement. I have yet to see anything that could not be improved upon (except my wife and my daughter). I hope that going forward we can be more effective in communications to our existing and potential customers. I know that most here agree that we have had and continue to have a great product (not that it cannot be improved). But there can be a communication gap between us and end users and I hope we can do a better job of that in the future.
Last night I attended an open house launch for the P65+ and C1PRO 4.5. We did shoot the Canon 1DS-MKIII tethered to a Mac Pro and captures came in about 6 - 7 seconds apart, about what we would expect from the weak USB throughput on the Mac platform. If anyone is experiencing weird or uncooperative behavior, please let us know, make sure you are following the minimum requirements, and if you have trouble on one computer, if you have a second, see if that behavior is repeated.
Couple of nice things I've already seen from the software:
In the View Window (where your preview is) while the hand tool is activated (and can be activated just by typing the letter H) you can double click the image and it will jump to 100%. Double click again and it is back to fit window. The nice thing about this is that the hand tool remains active so it means you don't have to go to zoom, then go to hand, then go to zoom, etc. You're at 100% and you can start panning right away.
Also, most know that we now offer lens corrections on Hasselblad H, Hasselblad V, Mamiya/Phase AFDIII, and Contax lenses. Today we did some testing with Schneider Digitar lenses on a CamboWide RS. To my complete surprise, lens corrections are also available for Schneider Digitar Lenses. While shooting the 35mm Digitar, we were able to remove the center filter completely and simply adjust vignetting so the corners were lightened, and then we could save that as a loadable pre-set. Distortion and Purple Fringing corrections are also available with Schneider Digitar lenses, at least from what we could tell today.
And, the vignetting control can go positive or negative. It can lighten as well as darken corners.
Steve Hendrix
Phase One
