Archive for the 'Technology' Category
Really Right Stuff Bracket Review and “The” Cable Trick
“The” Cable Trick
As a follow up to our oldie but goodie post Pimp your WFT-E1A we have come up with another ingenious use of the Really Right Stuff bracket for our Canon 1Ds Mark II. The Really Right Stuff bracket works great for holding our transmitter and allowing the use of a tripod at [...]
Image Mechanics Off-line Archiving System
As capture specialists, Image Mechanics generates a huge amount of data on a daily basis. We have photographers who can shoot over 3000 medium format digital images per day and we often have multiple shoots happening simultaneously.
We had to find a solution for archiving all of this data for ourselves and for [...]
The #1 Hardware Secret to Tethered Shooting: The Cables
The Infamous No Name Silver Firewire Repeater Cable
So how do you shoot more than 15′ away from your computer? Well, it’s a bit of a problem with firewire. Firewire doesn’t normally allow you to have single cable lengths over 15′. Meaning you have to improvise a bit when you want to put distance between [...]
New Record for Most Images in One Day
Breaking his previous record of 2400 Leaf Aptus 22 images, Dave Nagel sets our new record of images captured in one day at 3,666. The 2.5 day shoot resulted in 7,150 images captured, a monumental sum that would have been cost prohibitive to do traditionally. If you estimate the final selects scanning costs together [...]
Five Secrets of Tethered Shooting
1. Use Bridge as your workflow software. Set up the shoot using your camera manufacturers software and choose a capture folder. Next, open Adobe CS2 Bridge and point it to the capture folder. Volia! Previews are faster than in DPP and more accurate (easier to adjust) than in Leaf.
2. Use [...]
Advertising: What costs less? Film or Digital?
The results are actually quite surprising when you compare a typical advertising shoot of 800 frames to a digital shoot of 800 captures.
800 frames a day, translates into 50 rolls of 120 film using a 645 camera, such as the Hasselblad H1. Assuming an average film type of Kodak Portra, with developing and contacts comes [...]
Five Reasons to Shoot Tethered
1. A Large LCD monitor is a much better viewing medium than the small screen on the back of the camera. A vertically oriented image viewed full screen on a 23″ Apple Cinema display is the equivalent of an instant 11×14″ print.
2. Immediate feedback of focus, exposure and color. This is hard to [...]
One stop router solution for the studio
Today’s clients demand speed. And not Priority Overnight FedEx speed, I mean they wanted it yesterday speed. The only way to stay competitve in today’s photo world is to cater to that need for speed and run a server in your office. At Image Mechanics we operate a web server, which hosts [...]
Canon WFT-E1A Flash site
For those of you following the WFT-E1A articles, Canon put up a pretty good flash web site for it. Lots of pretty pictures fading in and out.
Be sure to check out the detailed setup guide. PDF warning
Death To Film Eulogy
Since George Eastman gave us film in 1884, pivotal moments of change in our society have been recorded by trapping light between emulsion layers onto silver halide.
The imaginations of the Irving Penns, Helmut Newtons, and Ansel Adams of the world have been brought to life on film.
Remember the sickly sweet chemical smell as you tore [...]
