That's not an explanation worthy of a company like Phase One. After all, how hard is it to write a driver? I'm on Vista 64bits and have no intention of buying a Mac.
Quentin
You can spend your life waiting for digital capture. Lenses, software, drivers, they will always change, always be upgraded always be waiting for you or someone to beta test them in the real world.
Life's too short for that stuff.
If you want to thether you Phase or Hasselblad or Leaf, buy an apple box. I-macs are cheap, powerbooks realtively cheap and once again life is too short to spend all this time hooking stuff up and waiting for that elusive update.
If you want to tether with a Canon and not go through a half dozen workarounds on a mac just buy a pc box, they're cheaper than 22 hours of learning how to turn you apple into a pc and pc's with vista are pretty stupid easy.
The manufacturers play the democracy card. They look at their broadest market and concentrate on it. They all do it, the big ones like Adobe and Apple, the small ones like Phase and Leaf. They test this stuff the best they can and then wait for the reviews to see what does and doesn't work.
The strange thing about photography is digital capture has matured to a point where one camera is not that amazingly different than the other. Sure for specialty use some cameras are better than others but the most detailed, fastest, newest, most expensive camera in the world will not make a crappy photo look good, and will not make a good photograph look bad.
I've pretty much owned them all, Canon, Nikon, Leica, Phase, Leaf and Kodak and they all are wanting in some aspects all really great in others, so choose your poison and stick with it.
There is no holy grail, no single camera that does everything well.
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