the IQ4 can apply styles right in the back or am i wrong? same as fuji, sony,... with their looks or presets, correct? i guess the jpeg comes with all the processing anyway at that point.
Other cameras: shoot RAW+JPG with a style selected and the JPG receives the style but the raw does not. Moreover the math to accomplish the style is not available in the raw processors most people use (C1/LR) so you have to approximate the look (e.g. eyeball the addition of saturation/contrast) to get the raw to look like the JPG looked like, which takes time and will never create a perfect match.
IQ4: Shoot raw or raw+jpg and both files receive the style. In the case of the raw it's a raw with a Capture One style attached to it (so you can, of course, remove any of those adjustments without loss of quality). Since the math and adjustment set are the same you'll see (within the limit of a camera screen vs Eizo) the same color, tones, and noise reduction/sharpening. Day 1 that will only be with specific preset styles loaded into the back, but the hope is to evolve this feature rapidly to allow the user to use their own styles or commercial styles like the
DT Style Pack.
is capture pilot a direct connection to iPad with this? or does it still have to go through C1 on a computer?
The IQ4 can create its own Ad Hoc Wifi network or join an existing network. An iOS device running Capture Pilot can log directly into the IQ4. No computer required.
Note that this is
Capture Pilot (wireless review/control) which is different than
Wireless Tethering (direct raw, or JPG, transfer to computer). The IQ2 and IQ3 backs could do Capture Pilot (without computer) while the IQ4 can do both Capture Pilot and Wireless Tethering.
the full size wireless raw transfer is good to have i guess but in reality nobody i know ever really uses it....i have tried to for years....wifi transfer is just too slow....150mpix files just make it worse....
I encourage you to keep an open mind about the speed that P1 will accomplish with this. It will definitely
not be as fast as USB-C but:
- This is not an optional add-on wifi accessory or a 3rd party wireless device. This is natively P1 from start to finish. Phase One controls the entire pipeline end-to-end and can optimize each step in the chain
- Capture One math is used in both places and the processor in the IQ4 is
very fast so there are plenty of ways P1 could make some shortcuts (e.g. sending a preview generated by the on-board processor ahead of the raw for faster time-to-screen) to improve the user experience
- Phase One uses a different data path for their tethering than most (all?) other camera companies. It is compressed on the fly and sent directly from the working memory.
- Phase One owns great IP for raw file compression. The IIQ-S raw file size of the IQ4 150mp is ~80mb which is only ~35% larger than a Canon 5Ds R raw file.
- Phase One knows that a large percentage of their users tether and will buy more cameras if wireless tethering works well. For commodity camera makers tethering is only a very small percentage of their user base.
- For fastest possible performance you could shoot raw to card and JPG to computer. Again, both files are being created and managed by the same Capture One math in both back and computer, so the look will be the same. Also, the data path here is also direct from working memory to both places simultaneously rather than first going to card and then being queued to go via wireless.
but a good/smart preview/jpeg (with styles) directly to capture pilot iPad with some kind of rating system (back into the camera?) would be nice....as long as there is some kind of communication back and forth
Phase One has had this since the IQ2 in 2013. The IQ4 adds some hardware (that I don't think I can talk about) to make this experience even better.
The new thing is the ability to do full raw file transfer to Capture One on a Mac/PC.