For any 1D Mark IV owners who have been waiting for the Capture One update that supports the 1D Mark IV files, it is finally available. It is a rather large download. At 234 MB, it is over 3 times as large as the Capture One 5 download. I'm not sure why.
uz2work wrote:
For any 1D Mark IV owners who have been waiting for the Capture One update that supports the 1D Mark IV files, it is finally available. ...
That's timely – my Mark IV is out on the big brown truck for delivery today. ;-)
So the battery life is supposed to be a lot less with the 4 than with the 3, but I just finished a lacrosse tournament over two days and 9 games. I shot a little more than 2800 images with the 4, did a little chimping and the battery life shows 29% left. Very good. I was surprised I only needed one battery and never had to go to the backups.
When you are shooting continuously like that, it's pretty normal to get 2000-3000 images. It's when you turn the camera on and off, or leave the camera in sleep for an extended period of time that kills the battery. Cold weather would also shorten battery life.
Nick Nishizaka wrote:
When you are shooting continuously like that, it's pretty normal to get 2000-3000 images. It's when you turn the camera on and off, or leave the camera in sleep for an extended period of time that kills the battery. Cold weather would also shorten battery life.
This is something I never understood. Yesterday I shot 4 bike races and had ~3,500 images. The battery was not fresh, but it showed 100% so it was close. In the middle of the last race the battery showed about 1/3 so I stopped chimping and shot the rest of the event.
Then I went home and recharged the battery; big deal. If you know you are going to shoot for 10-12 hours; which I often do when I am shooting BIF/wildlife I just recharge at night and am ready for the next day.
My 1d2 never needed a backup battery (which I always recharged and had in my camera bag) even in the all day 2k+ image shoots with lots of chimping if the battery was recharged the night before. My short experience with the 1d4 leads me to think it will be the same.
What kind of conditions would a photographer be in where they could not recharge the battery while they were sleeping between shoots?
Nill Toulme wrote:
That's timely – my Mark IV is out on the big brown truck for delivery today. ;-)
Nill
Nill,
Bet you will love it. Every time I use mine I am more impressed. One thing I have noticed is that while AF can be, and usually is great, sometimes things just don't work out. My first thought is user error. I shot a multi-lap bike race yesterday staying in the exact same spot, just past the finish line. I got several great series of images of racers coming directly towards me, but once in a while the first (or may be more) image was OOF; however mostly they were all in focus.
I am also playing around with the CFs and experimenting with different shooting styles for different CFs settings.
I am counting on you to come up with the ideal CFs settings to help me out.
Bet you will love it. Every time I use mine I am more impressed. One thing I have noticed is that while AF can be, and usually is great, sometimes things just don't work out. My first thought is user error.
I am also playing around with the CFs and experimenting with different shooting styles for different CFs settings.
I am counting on you to come up with the ideal CFs settings to help me out.
John Caldwell wrote:
What NR software did you use here, Nick?
Thanks,
John-
I've been messing around with a few plugins to come up with a specific workflow for the 1DMKIV files.
Either Nik Dfine or NeatImage Pro+. I first try to remove the color noise. dFine is very good at removing the color blotches present when shooting at ISO12800, so that's what I usually use for pass 1. For pass 2 & 3, I have the option of using any one of the NR plugins I have, whether it be the 2 I already mentioned or Noise Ninja. For the concert photos, I got a little lazy and used Noise Ninja.
Nick and John,
I use Dfine 2.0 and love it!!!! But each member here has their own preference.
I tried NN and the others but they just didn't produce the results I wanted.
Good Luck!
Dan
I played around yesterday at my son's birthday party with Auto ISO for the first time ever. Interesting how it works. This image was at F4 1/100 and ISO 8000.
Heh, I glanced at that and thought ISO 800, OK, looks nice, but why is he showing it to us (other than it being such a cute kid). Then I read the last line and thought, 8000! Whoa! ;-)
Susi I'm not a PP guy. If I don't get it out of the camera close, I'm pretty much screwed. This is a JPEG shot in camera not raw, Faithful picture style. My typical PP is so simple it's scary.
open in CS3, Crop to taste(this is a slight crop) curves adjustment to set White point(I picked something on her shoe for this image) run through Noise ninja on defaults and back down the top setting(I think its smoothness or something will check when I get home) to 6 and then resize twice to 1000px long side.
Nill she is cute, she isn't even mine, just a sample image I had online today I could grab and toss up to the thread.
One note I've found above 5000 ISO I'm almost going back to my 1D classic days where I expose to the right just a bit and mind where my shadows are. I seem to get the cleanest images doing this. below 3200 I can fudge much more with saving underexposure. I'm very happy with my camera. The more I shoot with it(only 2300 or so clicks so far) the more I'm finding the learning curve easier to handle. But my editors are very happy with images that I'm turning in and even though they don't know why I've been praised for better images as of late even coming from the 1DMKIII and 1DsMKII.
I might actually learn something!