Master Cooter,
I agree completely, but I'd project that the number of people that really use tethering hard, on location, under less than ideal conditions are a tiny percentage of less than one percent. My solution with the 5D2 was to buy an L Bracket from RRS and let the cable come out of the body, and then duct tape the cable to the vertical rising L bracket, up the left side. It's not pretty but it's solid. That body is just called The Tether Body.
Yes, the 1ds3 cable solution was elegant, solid, and fullproof. Agreed. (Until you lost the little screw-in pieces).
I'd respectfully suggest a threaded female in the body to receive a threaded screw-in tethering cable. It would look similar to those old timey Nikon sync cords that they used to have, back in pre-PocketWizard days. The sync cord did not simply push in, it threaded in. You could dangle the camera body from it, it was that solid. Do I think Canon will implement this? Not a chance in hell.
I agree.
I think the whole problem is we're too damn uptight.
I know, I know, at the current production prices we all do serious biz, but I've come to the conclusion since digital, we're all too damn serious about this stuff.
Jezz, client staring into monitors, 6 pm e-mails requesting 12 files from 3 years ago into final retouching the next day, web galleries that are color managed, contact sheets in sequential order, exact naming of files, 6 ways to process, 20 ways to digital asset management, whew . . . if we don't watch it we're going to become like those guys in the Senate always frowning and always bitching about what's not happening.
This stuff is silly and way, way overburdening.
I've got so many raid drives running in my two offices that I don't ever need to turn the heater on. How f---ed up is that?
I've got three different monitor calibrators and if you can take any of the multiple monitors I own and make them look the same, I'll kiss ya on the mouth and even if you can, it's almost hilarious cause 98% of the people we send stuff too is either looking at it on a glossy imac that puts out more light than a 4k, or they look at it on their old dell laptop that is so dim, they gotta go into the corner to see it.
I have this friend, he shoots digital, damn good pho....tographer, and about every 9 months he buys a film camera. About 6 months later he sells it and goes back to 100% digital. I've seen him do it a few times and at first I thought he was searching for that big viewfinder or that illusive film look, but now I finally get it.
It ain't the cameras, it ain't digital it's the fact that we're quickly taking all the fun out of this business.
I know what he's looking for, and I hate to say it but it ain't the film look . . . he just want's to go back and have some fun.
Man when I started nobody expected you do anything other than shoot good and not get too stoned, or at least not fall down until after the shoot. Nobody gave a rats ass about catering as long as there was some drinks on hand and after every day's shooting we all went out and had a good time. Not a business dinner at Capo, Michael's or Nobu good time, but a get drunk and piss off the roof good time.
Show up the next day, knock down some coffee and an egg sammich and do it again.
It was fun and nobody said turn the music down it's too loud. Obviously nobody said let me see that processed image 23" wide NOW and cameras were as crappy then as they are now.
Ever try to fast load a pentax 6x7? It took about 4 assistants. Ever put a pentax 6x7 against your nose and fired. It would knock the boogers out.
The fabled Fuji GSX whatever with all the movements. Hell after a day with that thing I needed to put Band-Aids on 4 areas of my hands that blistered and a spinal x-ray would be the perfect test case for scoliosis.
Ever try to focus a Hasselblad with a long lens on a moving running subject. If you got 10 frames sharp you were a lucky guy, or the god's loved you that day.
But we didn't care cause that's just the way it was and even if we bitched, we didn't bitch to 2.4 million viewers, we just bitched at the 2nd assistant about how screwed up the cameras were.
So this Pentax thing, yea it's ok, still based in 1998 and other than a good lcd, not much different than all the medium format cameras . . . we'll except it doesn't cost more than a Lexus, but with the world going the way it is you don't need even a 9 grand Lexus you just need one damn fast $3,000 Ford (5d2).
Let Hasselblad, Phase, Pentax, sell all they can, to anyone that will buy them. That's not only good for them, in a strange way it turns out to be very good for me, cause as long as I shoot the chevy then I get to here clients say . . . man that was easy.
That's what I need, easy and more fun.
I gotta go out today and buy a few of them little pink cameras.
BC
