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wmepp asked for a mirror lockup button for Phocus in the H4D wish list. Thought I'd continue that here...

As a mostly tethered user, I've been requesting that feature for I think two years now. Is it that difficult?! Anyone else??

Maybe Hasselblad could surprise us all with mirror lock up in beta 21??

I would certainly second that. I add something else. Keep the mirror up after a multishot sequence instead of having it automatically coming down again.

Good news! Beta21 of Phocus has a mirror lock-up button :)

Nick-T

Wow. Either I'm incredibly prescient or that's one heck of a rapid response on Hasselblad's part. Either way I'm smiling!  Thank you Hasselblad! Now, let me think what else can I ask for....

An additional thanks to Nick for setting up this site. Having the ability to now have organized areas of discussion seems to have very much improved things.

If I ever get to NZ the drinks are on me!

would it be good for Phocus to support tethered shooting with other manufacturer's cameras ?

obviously this is the route that CaptureOne has taken.
C1 is now (in my experience) the most popular solution for shooting tethered with Canons, and obviously doesn't hurt PhaseOne's marketing of their MF digital backs.

should Hasselblad follow suit with Phocus ?
would it encourage people to learn and use Hasselblad backs if they could shoot with their Canon tethered to Phocus ?

How about remembering the last used settings. Each time I start I have to set up the separate viewer window. Also the old PS H would be great. Just being able to press H and then wander around in an image  works for me.

I've just sent an email this A.M to denmark re window preferences not being saved, will report back here. As for the Hand tool I just use space bar, works for me.
Nick-T

Please include the scanners with-in Phocus.  Hey, scanned film is digital too  ;)

Thanks Nick. I guess it's just old habits refusing to die.

Well - I'm new to the forum - great idea.

I've got a few requests for Phocus and for firmware upgrades for the current H3D:

1.  FlexColor includes an option when you are shooting tethered to designate an exposure as a white reference and to correct exposures accordingly (for vignetting and color shifts with wide angles as well as white balance).  This is essential when shooting non-HC wides to eliminate color shifts.  The problems:  it only works tethered in FlexColor and doesn't exist in Phocus.  This feature needs to be added to Phocus.  It also needs to be available for non-tethered shooting.  (Note that Capture One offers this feature for C1 backs.)  Not having this feature severely limits the usefulness of Hasselblad backs on third-party bodies such as Alpa and Horseman, particularly with wide angle lenses. I need help on this one since I've got a Horseman and a 35mm Digitar on order.

2.  Firmware idea:  the H3D's exposure bracketing permits exposure increments of one stop or less.  Extended dynamic range applications (such as Photomatix Pro) require brackets at two stop intervals.  It should be fairly simply to modify the firmware to permit larger increments.

3.  Another firmware idea:  permit focus bracketing.  The Hy6 evidently does this.  It would be very useful in a number of situations - in my case I use Helicon Focus fairly frequently.

4.  Yet another firmware idea:  Broaden the choice for user-programable buttons to include basically any setting on the camera or the back.  For example it would be nice in the field to be able to quickly cycle through lcd brightness settings or when working handheld to cycle through mirror delay settings.

5.  Finally, again on Phocus - I hope as the authors get close to the final version they spend some time optimizing it for speed.  It's actually not bad for imports and exports, but in working with a large group of these very large files milliseconds count.  On screen responsiveness is quite slow on my 2x3 ghz Mac - I'm aware of the video card issue and have ordered an upgrade - but it seems to me that it ought to be better on the hardware that I have.

Quote from: woody campbell on May 23, 2008, 01:57:33 PM
Well - I'm new to the forum - great idea.

I've got a few requests for Phocus and for firmware upgrades for the current H3D:

1.  FlexColor includes an option when you are shooting tethered to designate an exposure as a white reference and to correct exposures accordingly (for vignetting and color shifts with wide angles as well as white balance).  This is essential when shooting non-HC wides to eliminate color shifts.  The problems:  it only works tethered in FlexColor and doesn't exist in Phocus.  This feature needs to be added to Phocus.  It also needs to be available for non-tethered shooting.  (Note that Capture One offers this feature for C1 backs.)  Not having this feature severely limits the usefulness of Hasselblad backs on third-party bodies such as Alpa and Horseman, particularly with wide angle lenses. I need help on this one since I've got a Horseman and a 35mm Digitar on order.

Phocus will have custom white added at some point.

Nick-T

While looking at sticky preferences, would it be possible to also honour the last settings. As an example, I set sharpness to off by ticking the box off (or at least that's what I hope it does) but  it comes back ticked to on when I start Phocus again.

Hi Guys
I'm putting together an email to Denmark with requests for added features in Phocus 1.1. Can you please have a look at the list below and put them in the order you consider most important (and add any I've missed) The software guys have a list of features to add and some input from us should help to prioritise which get added first. Here's the list in random order:

#1 Rotate/flip images
#2 Overlay
#3 Full Ixpress support (my 384 works!)
#4 Thumbnails labelled as 1/4/16 shot
#5 Window layouts saved
#6 Preview mode (preferebly with warning overlay)
#7 Hand tool button
# ?

Cheers
Nick-T

I would definitley like to see scroll wheel control for the tools pallette - it's a real pain without it and it's inconsistent vs. the thumb window, where it works.

Priority wise, I'd vote for (as well as the one above) #5 to be top of the list.

....rob

I would love to be able to rotate images and Ixpress support. My 384 makes Phocus crash :(

Quote from: robertpoll on June 19, 2008, 11:08:48 PM
I would definitley like to see scroll wheel control for the tools pallette - it's a real pain without it and it's inconsistent vs. the thumb window, where it works.

Priority wise, I'd vote for (as well as the one above) #5 to be top of the list.

....rob

If you option-click any of the windows they all collaps.  Don't know if that helps?  ???

Jo S.x

Thanks Jo - yes, will help a bit!

#1 short and fast Details window ;D
#1 copy and paste buttons :-*
#2 Rotate/flip images ;D
#2 Overlay ;)
#3 Full Ixpress support
#4 Thumbnails labelled as 1/4/16 shot
#5 Window layouts saved
#6 All button functions included in menus  ::)
#7 Hand tool button
#8 Preview mode (preferebly with warning overlay)

Hi!

My wish would be:

i am used to give my pictures a bit more 'punch' via the unsharp mask with settings like strenght 10-30, a large radius with 100-200 - it works as kind of lokal contrast enhancement. Lightroom has a feature called claritiy - this USM setting works a bit like that (but of course without a masking feature). But you can't chose a radius larger than 5 pixels in Phocus at the moment - it would be nice if HB could change this. I already wrote this to HB - but i think it can't be wrong if they get this again via Nick T. ;)

Greetings Andy

I concur with may observations done already, specially those regarding simple tasks of file handling and management.
For some reason, software developers attempt to go the "all in one" type of application, and by doing so, some "holes" appear in design.

For one, I don't find a way to not combine Flexcolor or Phocus with a cataloguing application like iView-Expression Media for simple things like changing file names for better identification and storage, simple file rotations, regrouping of files into different folders , and in this sense concepts like the  Scratchpad folder end up being outdated. The application just can not comply with the user's system of folder organization and has to create it's own, leading to more time spent on file handling either manual or by using a third party program. This annoys me.

As I am shooting most of the time with models and on location, I rarely use tethered shooting, so I am probably the most basic guy in the group. Models also get distracted and tend to get out of their roles to run and watch images on the screen if they are available,   add to this that I hate being surrounded by cables, and so I have little to say regarding this  aspect of the software.

Best

Jorge Parra

I would like Phocus to be able to work with Aperture2 or not make Aperture 2 CRASH!

i need to be able to use Phocus on my PC. 
I also use dual monitors, so would like to view the image full screen on my calibrated monitor and use the second monitor for everything else

A few other suggestions: (some already have been listed.)
1. Overlay feature
2. Viewing Window- slide adjustment for scaling viewing size. Not this + or - stuff.
3. Capture Destination Folder- Ability to add a folder from inside the Phocus app. not from outside of it. Specifically from within the previous folders menu.
4. Compare View mode to include more than 2 images.

Maybe some of these exist and I just haven't been diligent enough to discover them. But the consensus from the DigiTechs I use is that Phocus is poorly layed out and planned out.
Not real intuitive. Clearly not designed by a working Professional that uses it frequently.

Thanks,
Curtis J

Quote from: cjphoto on June 24, 2008, 03:02:02 AM
A few other suggestions: (some already have been listed.)
1. Overlay feature
2. Viewing Window- slide adjustment for scaling viewing size. Not this + or - stuff.
3. Capture Destination Folder- Ability to add a folder from inside the Phocus app. not from outside of it. Specifically from within the previous folders menu.
4. Compare View mode to include more than 2 images.

Maybe some of these exist and I just haven't been diligent enough to discover them. But the consensus from the DigiTechs I use is that Phocus is poorly layed out and planned out.
Not real intuitive. Clearly not designed by a working Professional that uses it frequently.

Thanks,
Curtis J

No. 2...  Cmd + or - do the trick?  Cmd 0 and Opt-Cmd 0 also work   8)

No. 3...  You can - just right click in the file browser.  ;)

Quote from: cjphoto on June 24, 2008, 03:02:02 AM

4. Compare View mode to include more than 2 images.

If I want to compare more than two images I tend to scale the thumbnails up big..

Nick-T

Quote from: jlm on June 23, 2008, 10:48:01 PM
i need to be able to use Phocus on my PC. 

Phocus PC is in alpha testing as we speak.

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I also use dual monitors, so would like to view the image full screen on my calibrated monitor and use the second monitor for everything else

To do this you select "viewer in a separate window"

Nick-T

1. larger 3fr previews. For those of us who shoot to CF, it would be nice to actually be able to choose images to import based on these previews, which are borderline worthless now (as in why have them at all?). 480x640 would be fine, 600x800 even better.

2.Default FFF Fit-to-frame viewer image is always soft looking (sometimes it loads sharp, then gets soft after Phocus renders the profile). This was always the case with Flexcolor as well, but it's really just boggling that we can't get a full frame, sharp preview out of this program...

3. Mentioned before,  Restore the ability (from Flex) to rate 3fr files in PHocus, prior to import as FFF. An improvement over flex would be to actually have these ratings "stick". (flex only holds 3fr ratings as long as the program is open...upon launching they are all back to default).

4. Clarity setting (as in Lightroom and ACR) as someone else mentioned.

5. Bring back the "selective color" type color correction in Flex. I like the new color correction tool, but it's so small and feels imprecise...I like the being able to see the numbers,  (as it is in Flex).

i find all my daylight setting shots (CFV) come in too warm and too green.  typically, i need to set the temp back to 4750 and the tint to 34 to get good color balance.  I would like to profile my camera and use this profile for all shots as done in capture one.

Also would be nice if quick collection changes weren't lost when Phocus crashes - it looks like they only get saved when you close Phocus.

Having adjustments auto-save is a big step forward over flexcolor, but really the whole mechanism is very cumbersome. I'd really like to have every adjustment step saved in a history and the ability to step forward/back easily, like lightroom (and aperture, I'm sure). Having adjustments arbitrarily saved when you happen to switch to another image isn't great, and who really wants to remember to hit save all the time....?

Hi Nick,

Way back in this thread you'd mentioned that you were planning on putting together a wish list for Phocus 1.1 to send to Hasselblad. Did you ever manage to do it, and if so what did you send? Would be interested to hear if you did.

thanks,

...rob

Hi Robert
I pretty much passed on everything! Phocus 1.1 goes into private beta this week sometime so I'll let you know what features have been added as soon as I get my hands on it.
Nick-T

I'd very much like to see a detail window that would allow me to quickly go through images and check focus in a key area (such as on the eyes).  Having to wait for the full screen to resolve, and having to zoom in and out, makes the program unusable for editing large numbers of images.

Needless to say, smooth operation on a computer that isn't the very top of the line is also essential.

Mark

Just to let you know, Phocus 1.1 (currently in private beta) has Overlay, custom white, and the ability to rotate/straighten images.
Nick-T

Hi Nick

You will have seen my post on the 'regular' forum. Any sign of an exposure meter? Profile Setup? B&W? How would I make a capture setup in Phocus?

Monty Rakusen

I would love to have the automatic numbering of Phocus to start at the lowest possible number again, like Flexcolor did. Advantage of this is when you are shooting catalogue with varying filenames you only have to change the file name and Flexcolor would start numbering again from 1. Phocus continues the numbering that was attached to the previous name which means you have to constantly remember to set that back to 1 as well. This makes me loose time!

I'm with Derek in needing longer exposure times. Multiple minutes would be great but 64 seconds would be a good start. Full colour management as per PS would be good too.

Windows OS!

Long long overdue.

For Hasselblad's sake and for its futur clients and partners, a more, more easier Phocus, a really intuitive Phocus , a faster Phocus (at least like Flexcolor)

A easy capture sofware like his main competitor in order to spent time on the pictures and not on the software and shortcuts >:(

easy, really intuitive, agreable, fast ;D

Thanks a lot

Echoing previous wish list items:

1. Phocus for Windows XP 32-bit.
2. Phocus for Windows XP 64 running 16GB of RAM, say.

This is a copy of my original posting and I would very much like to see progress on these points.

Hi

I've spent much of today sitting with Paul from Hasselblad going
through Phocus and really its not that complicated and it does most of
the things that Flexcolour does. However there are a few fairly
fundamental points.

1. I'm trying to make a shooting profile setting in Phocus just like
in Flex , file>setup> then you set 16bit, sharpening, ICC profiles etc.

I can't seem to find a way to do this in Phocus. Obviously this is a
really useful workflow as your images, as they are captured are in the
profile that you will end up using, barring a few tweakes.
How do I do this?

2. No exposure meter/bar! Now I know that watching a histogram is the
best way to asses your exposure but the bar has always been an initial
warning, and when you are really busy its a very useful tool.
Can I have one please!

3. Where the heck is OLD STANDARD? I want it back! Probably you have
to apply this from an image shot in flexcolour and then save it in
your shooting profile...thats if I could do that!

4. The screen resolution is worse than Flexcolour, if you use the
magnifier it comes up great at 100% but then thats just the same in
Flex. There is some image building at first as it loads that makes it
look sharp but then after a few seconds this goes soft.

Right now I'd say this software, even though it works fine on both my
Mac Pro and Mac book Pro, is not suitable for every day use. There are
some excellent things in it like the live video focus from the
computer which is truly amazing and the modernisation of the general
appearance and layout is good, image selection is good too but it is a
bit cranky with the main bar above the thumbnail window not working
properly (sometimes, sometimes not).

For the software designers: Why didn't you just tart up Flexcolour ,
just add the new features and change its name to Phocus?

Yours Mystified and having spent a lot of money upgrading!

Monty Rakusen

current bluetooth (2 / EDR) transfer speed is, at best 3Mbit/s. as in 2.6 sec's to transfer a single megabyte.
a single 50MB raw shot from a 39mpx would take about 2.5minutes to transfer in ideal conditions.

future 'bluetooth 3' and 'wireless usb' specifications bring the data rate up to 100's Mbit/s which is a little bit more possible.

right now i'm happy with a cable!

But how about a small JPG preview? These are a lot smaller. Shoot to CF card and get the JPG preview by Bluetooth would be the way to go. It is the way the bluetooth connection of Leaf is supposed to work. I never got it to work really properly, I only got to an image on its side on my Windows CE phone. Still pretty cool if it would have worked and I am sure I would have gotten it to work If I only did not get impatient with the Leaf dealer and bought Hasselblad instead.

Here's an interesting work around,. Using an Iphone and screen sharing you can set upo the phone so it see's the computer screen:

http://www.panoscan.com/VFiPhone.mov

As long as you can disable the iphone from controlling phocus this would be a neat way for a client/hairstylist to watch what's going on..

Nick-T

THe most frustrating thing for me is the inability to get a reasonably sized jpg without file conversion.  If I take three or four shots and want to see which is best focused I have to convert them all and my life would be so much easier if I could get a reasonable view of the image and discard the ones I know are not optimal to cut down on conversion times and storage etc.

I would also like to have an option to import and convert into both fff and dng files at the same time. 

I'd like phocus to shift a little faster on my older laptop

I'd like Flex to be able to pick up the GPS data.  The GIL is a really useful tool.

Rotation and minor rotation adjustments in Phocus, as in 'PS arbitary rotation' would be good.  My horizons are always a little off and it's a pain to rotate everything in PS.

I still haven't figured out how to get the file names the way I want them...

Like Monty, I can't understand why Flex wasn't given a makeover... that would seem to be a progressive step..

All best from a rainy Sussex (Again)
Time to Wrangle next door's chickens out of the vegetable patch again.>>!


Hugh

Quote from: HughGilbert on September 06, 2008, 10:46:19 PM
Rotation and minor rotation adjustments in Phocus, as in 'PS arbitary rotation' would be good.  My horizons are always a little off and it's a pain to rotate everything in PS.

a little bird told me... arbitrary rotation may soon appear in Phocus.

my horizons are also often 'on the wonk'.

Hi Hugh,

Understand what you say about evolving flex rather than re-writing, but with all software you get to a point where evolving it further becomes very difficult and re-writing from scratch is necessary. It's difficult to say for sure without seeing all of the detail, but I really do suspect Flex was at that point. I tend to think that Hasselblad made the right choice. It's frustrating that the delivery dates we so badly missed, but that's quite common too - estimating software development times is very difficult, particularly for smaller organizations. On balance I think, whicls it's not perfect, they did a decent job for version 1. Will be interesting to see how much of the wish-list gets cleared up in the next version!

...rob

Quote from: HughGilbert on September 06, 2008, 10:46:19 PM
I'd like phocus to shift a little faster on my older laptop

Phocus 1.1 screen draws are significantly faster on my MacPro (near instant) so I can only assume they;ll be faster on your laptop..

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Rotation and minor rotation adjustments in Phocus, as in 'PS arbitary rotation' would be good.  My horizons are always a little off and it's a pain to rotate everything in PS.

All in 1.1

Nick-T

How about directtly importing from 3FR to DNG? I don't seem to be able to find that in Phocus. I could do that in Flexcolor it would be nice if I can do the same with Phocus.

Hi Guys and Gals

I'd like to have a timed delay on the exposure built into Phocus / Flexcolor.  I often work on my own and trying to shoot and hold a reflector in position often requires more flexibility than this ageing body of mine is capable of producing anymore.  So I want to be able to push the button and know I have a 30-60 seconds to get in position.

Ixpress 384, Rollei X-act2, Lens Control S, Blood Type O

Tim

Maybe a cable release or remote trigger with a pocket wizard would be the way to go for you if you need it regularly..? Alternatively you can get a poor man's version with a wireless mouse - position over the capture button in phocus then carefully pick the mouse up so as not to move the mouse pointer  and click the button when ready. On occasions I've used the mouse as a foot switch like this :-)

There's also the self timer on the camera of course, but from memory that resets itself every time so is a bit of a pain.

hope that helps!

..rob

3 things I really would like to see in Phocus which will make my life much easier.

1) I would like to see in the thumb of the file whether I am dealing with a single shot or multishot (like I could in Flexcolor). Now I can only see that when I activate the thumb and when I have the capture info pane activated. This is not handy! If you can see in the thumb what it is, it is much easier to select all 4 shots for processing for instance. Now I need to select them by hand piece for piece.

Or is there another way?

2) I want to see how much images still need to be processed in the icon in the Dock (again like in Flexcolor). This way I know when to continue to work instead of regularly checking how far Phocus is.

3) I want to be able to turn the screen totally off when using the back tethered. Nothing as annoying as a bright screen turning on when doing critical focus (maybe this has also got to do with me being a left-eye photographer).

Tim; if you were shooting on an H-body you could use the body's interval shooting function. Otherwise robert's suggestions are good, i'd add you could also remote control your shooting computer from an iPhone (see  http://www.panoscan.com/VFiPhone.mov (http://www.panoscan.com/VFiPhone.mov) ) or any other mobile phone which is able to run a vnc client (most phones which can have applications installed on them).

Duskbak; totally reasonable requests. regarding the 'images left to process' counter, i think the processing queue is much too hidden in Phocus. I'd like the queue to be visible all the time when images are queued, i suggest it could appear in the bottom left of the interface (covering part of the Disk/Folder view, like the Artwork pane appears in iTunes).

alex.

Hi,

I'm totally new to Phocus (using 1.1), i like it but miss couple of features Adobe added
to Camera Raw with CS3:
- Recovery
- Fill Light
- Clarity
I'm not sure if there are equivalent features in Phocus 1.1 for that, just got
so used to it in ACR.

Regards,
  Ralf

Just a note to say thanks for the great suggestions, please keep them coming, I know for a fact that many of them are on the 1.2 wishlist in Denmark.
Regards
Nick-T

There are no equivalents in Phocus. I am sure Hasselblad is aware that many of us would like to see these tools in the next version of Phocus.

Another thing that would be very welcome in Phocus. Something I even miss in ACR BTW!

I would like to be able to select either RGB or CMYK in the sampler values (right side under the image). I sometimes (often with portraits) color correct skin based on CMYK values. The closer I can get during raw conversion the less time I need to correct in PS.

Another thing that comes to mind while I am doing some images at this moment. I would like to have a much better histogram, bigger, with more height and a visible scale division. It is now very hard to see what is where and how far you are from any point including black & white clipping points.

While you are at it maybe this can also be done for the backs.

Have a look at a Leaf Aptus back and see how those histograms are, a work of art and so much easier to use!

Just passing on some of the pressure I am getting from my own clients everyday ;)

All kidding aside. I think there are quite a few points that would make our life so much easier and pleasurable. Many of these points aren't even that far fetched and I am not even talking about support for the Windows platform ;)

But.... to show my goodwill I will refrain from entering points on my wish list for at least another week. By that time I should have things to do with the new Phocus version with the new firmware with ISO & speed bump...

The week has past :)

Today I tried to use Phocus in a shoot which will go on for the next week. Phocus turned out to be a big no-go. Here is why and what I would like to be done about it.

Several times a year for various fashion brands we are shooting the collection on dolls for the webshop, print, catalogue, etc.. Nicest way to do this is to shoot in single shot mode while the stylists are working on the items. As soon as the stylists believe it is fine the shot is taken in multishot.

Here already Phocus falls short. I need to be able to see from the thumbs what I am dealing with, eg. a single shot file or a multishot file. This is buried too deep! I would like to have it like it was in Flexcolor.

It gets worse!

After having done the 4-shot in many cases the stylists want to have other variations on what they have just done, eg. necklace, bags, other shoes, etc.. This means again singles until perfection followed by a multishot. By now it is virtually impossible in Phocus to determine which files are the correct ones without clicking on each file.

Allright, I thought I will do this and set the approval level of the file that is multishot (and correct because sometimes you need to repeat a multishot because flashes didn't go off or, other movement) to yellow.

This made things even beyond worse...

I now found out that setting the approval level of more files is a dicey process. I later found out that some files that I turned yellow were still green, other files that needed to be green had become yellow, etc.. This made Phocus totally unreliable.

After 2 hours of screwing around I switched to Flexcolor and finished the day without further problems.

I really really like it that I can see in the Flexcolor icon in the dock how many items it still needs to process. Could that be in the next version of Phocus as well??

Another thing I really really like in Flexcolor is the ability to process files in the background and continue to work. I process while the stylists are preparing the next setup. The fact I can do this means when I come home at night I can play with the Wii with my son instead of sitting behind the screen. It shaves a couple of hours from my day! Thank you Hasselblad ;).

Another thing I really miss that was in Flexcolor is the EV (or composite light) value that shows right next to the RGB values. This comes in very handy! As well as the scale on the histogram. The histogram in Flexcolor is lacking but it is already so much better than in Phocus.

Sorry guys, but for my taste Phocus needs a lot more improvement. Flexcolor might be not so sexy looking but it is still my tool of choice for the moment.

Quote from: Dustbak on December 04, 2008, 08:19:38 AM

Here already Phocus falls short. I need to be able to see from the thumbs what I am dealing with, eg. a single shot file or a multishot file. This is buried too deep! I would like to have it like it was in Flexcolor.

I quite agree, I know that this is on the wish list for 1.2 Multi-shot users speak up!

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I really really like it that I can see in the Flexcolor icon in the dock how many items it still needs to process. Could that be in the next version of Phocus as well??

This too is on the wishlist!

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Another thing I really really like in Flexcolor is the ability to process files in the background and continue to work. I process while the stylists are preparing the next setup. The fact I can do this means when I come home at night I can play with the Wii with my son instead of sitting behind the screen. It shaves a couple of hours from my day! Thank you Hasselblad ;).

Not sure what you mean here.. Phocus will happily process in the background..

Thank you very much for the post, I know for a fact that certain influential Danes read this thread :)

Nick-T

Quote from: NickT on December 04, 2008, 08:42:22 AM

Not sure what you mean here.. Phocus will happily process in the background..

Nick-T

I did not get that far with Phocus too often but the times I did it did slow down the capturing process significantly. Much more so than Flexcolor does.

Derek,

The mac version has a small up and down arrow at the bottom of the tolls panel section. Its not there in the PC Beta, and have reported it to Hasselblad.

...rob

Derek,

There's no hand tool, but if you ctrl and drag you can pan around the image; the equivalent of space drag on the mac.

...rob

I would like to have in the 'Job Info' panel the option to use 'spaces' in the 'name' field. This might sound weird but I prefer to be able to use 'name' 003.fff instead of 'name'0003.fff for instance. This is not possible currently unless you edit it in 'File Name' but in that case it only works for the current job and you have to do that again if you start shooting on another job. This is not really handy!

I know it's been mentioned but I'll repeat it because for me it's such a bummer: please can we have a sharp preview? Having to zoom in to test sharpness on 100's of images is not a professional workflow.

I would very much like to see a fourth approval level and color. Let's call it the green of the greens.

The reason is this: I never delete files, only use the colors to separate them. Reds are out (but not deleted), yellows are maybe's (for comping etc), and greens are those who make the cut and ends up on the contact sheets for the client. Either selected in the studio or on location by me, the client, or usually both of us together. And these greens can be something like 4-6 images of the same pose/wardrobe/situation etc. Shortly (days) after they have reviewed and discussed the contact sheets back at the office, the client chooses only one from these greens to actually use. So therefore, I would like to have a fourth color so you can mark which image the client actually chose to use/print/publish as their final image, and still keep the selected range of all the others.

Has anyone alread mentioned the wish of having focus bracketing and auto-blending in Phocus? That I would really consider being useful (even when combined with the HTS). With the lens data known to Phocus it should be able to know which part of which image is in phocus so also what parts it needs to blend in and what parts not.

Yes, that first please  ;D

Sorry, I promised not to mention anything else until we had at least 64sec & ISO800.

A neutralisation picker where the sample size can be altered.

Photoshop has a crude sample averaging method - Point, 3 by 3, 5 by 5 etc in normal editing screen, and a zoom dependant sample size in the RAW/DNG converter. The best one I ever saw though was years ago in Paintshop Pro (!), that used a marquee tool to define the averaging area. Particulary good because you could not only define, but also see the area used.

Andre Regini

Wish list
Not a browser on the left (and his "use this folder  as capture destination") and a full capture destination in the job info tool on the right. One tool  one place
Not a annoying (I'm polite) "user registration" at each start
Not a compare view illogical twisting and illogical merging/mixing 
Not a double clic to open images in the thumbnails. Simple clic is great. See competitor
Not waiting 3 s to see the file number after the image display
Not a crashing software when you process still capturing
Not a crashing software when you process and making adjustements on other pictures
Not a historical process queue vanished after crashing
Not a green initial aproval level after at least 10 try  to to change it to yellow and 1 year waiting the correction of this bug
Not a complete lost of all settings ans preferences after crashing
Not a "next sequence number" reset after crashing....Imagine
Not a hidden adjustements list
etc...

Not sure if this is the case in Phocus, but when you try to save files in Flexcolor and there are files there that are already named the same as what you're trying to save, the option is to overwrite them or cancel the save.  It would be great to be able to say 'no' to over writing the files and still have the balance of the files write. I find I often process out a few files and can't remember which one was the last one I saved, but I can't select everything and only have the ones that have not yet been processed get processed out.

And a warning box when you shut down Flexcolor when files are still coming in from the buffer would be great, too.  You get one when you try to quit and it's building previews, but not when it's importing files from the buffer.

I didn't see a wishlist thread for Flexcolor, so I'm posting it here.  Sorry if there is a thread.

• To my opinion it is annoying that Phocus shows an empty directory if there is no fff file in it. Since the fff files can be seen at least with a preview in the explorer, this would be nice vice versa for tif and jpg files within Phocus.
  
• I am mainly interested in b&w pictures. The export option to grayscale tif, however, is totally useless, if there is no possibility to apply filters, resp. tune the different color channels for the grayscale representation (like e.g. in Adobe RAW). So at the moment I have to export to the large RGB tif files to apply afterwards the b&w conversion in Photoshop. It would save a large amount of disk space if one could apply a suitable filtering within Phocus and then export directly to 8-bit or 16-bit grayscale tif files   

Stephan

Quote from: eauliv on February 09, 2009, 05:53:30 AM
Wish list
Not a annoying (I'm polite) "user registration" at each start

you know if you just fill that in once, it goes away forever ?
(and if you've internet access you can retrieve all the details automatically from your hasselblad.com online registratioon)

regards, alex.

Quote from: NickT on June 19, 2008, 01:37:23 PM
Hi Guys
I'm putting together an email to Denmark with requests for added features in Phocus 1.1. Can you please have a look at the list below and put them in the order you consider most important (and add any I've missed) The software guys have a list of features to add and some input from us should help to prioritise which get added first. Here's the list in random order:

#1 Rotate/flip images
#2 Overlay
#3 Full Ixpress support (my 384 works!)
#4 Thumbnails labelled as 1/4/16 shot
#5 Window layouts saved
#6 Preview mode (preferebly with warning overlay)
#7 Hand tool button
# ?

Cheers
Nick-T

Although as a beta tester, I have had direct contact with Hasselblad developer regaring comments and wish list, it does harm to have it consolidated with the groups comments and views.

In general, we are of course not expecting a full fledge Photoshop version of Phocus. However, it would be nice to get a lot of the features that are included in Lightroom as it will save a lot of time in the work flow and in many cases avoid the need to transfer Tiff-files to Photoshop.

Some of the issues I remember right now are among other things:

- spot removal
- leveling of horizon (already made available in Mac version)
- Slide shows for direct presentation of the unique high resolution of Hasselblad pics
- General making sure that Mac and PC versions are simultaneously developed and launched

Mats

Quote from: NickT on June 19, 2008, 01:37:23 PM
Hi Guys
I'm putting together an email to Denmark with requests for added features in Phocus 1.1. Can you please have a look at the list below and put them in the order you consider most important (and add any I've missed) The software guys have a list of features to add and some input from us should help to prioritise which get added first. Here's the list in random order:

#1 Rotate/flip images
#2 Overlay
#3 Full Ixpress support (my 384 works!)
#4 Thumbnails labelled as 1/4/16 shot
#5 Window layouts saved
#6 Preview mode (preferebly with warning overlay)
#7 Hand tool button
# ?

Cheers
Nick-T

....Btw, come to think about one more thing:

- change from Firewire to the today more universal link for communication - USB2. Even the new Mac laptops have dropped the firewire in favour of USB only.

Cheers from a sunny Boracay, Philippines. Check out www.boracaystrand.com and enjoy the rest of Easter Holidays.

Mats

Here are a few:

- highlights recovery tool (or the ability to "squeeze" all the available data into visible dynamic range)
- realistic colors in preview when changing exposure (currently only at 100% magnification)
- sharp preview
- ability to switch to a full screen preview
- selection rectangle for custom WB
- more options for custom file naming (particularly YYMMDD_NNNN, YYMMDD_HHMM_NNNN with hours in 24 hr format)
- adjustments for a group of selected images
- checker box beside the approval state for marking edited/retouched/finished images.
- magnifying glass with a selection region

I hope it's doable.
Thanks,
Oleksiy

Hi Oleksiy
Some of these features exist already (in version 1.2) and some are on the way, I've added comments below:

Quote from: Oleksiy on May 20, 2009, 01:06:08 PM
Here are a few:

- highlights recovery tool (or the ability to "squeeze" all the available data into visible dynamic range)

This is coming soon, not sure if it will make 1.2

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- realistic colors in preview when changing exposure (currently only at 100% magnification)

I haven't noticed this on the mac, might be PC specific, anyone care to chime in?

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- sharp preview

Fixed in 1.2

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- ability to switch to a full screen preview
- selection rectangle for custom WB

Not sure quite what you mean with these two can you clarify?

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- more options for custom file naming (particularly YYMMDD_NNNN, YYMMDD_HHMM_NNNN with hours in 24 hr format)

Good idea

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- adjustments for a group of selected images

This has always been in the software if I understand you correctly.. Select an image, make some changes, then select a bunch more (including the one you made changes to) and hit "modify" make sense?

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- checker box beside the approval state for marking edited/retouched/finished images.

This is in 1.2, the thumbs are updated to show that changes have been made and/or the file saved out.

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- magnifying glass with a selection region

yes this would be great!

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I hope it's doable.
Thanks,
Oleksiy

Me too!
Nick-T

Hi Nick,
thanks for the quick response! Looking forward to Phocus 1.2. When is it coming out?

I'll try to clarify a bit:

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- realistic colors in preview when changing exposure (currently only at 100% magnification)

I haven't noticed this on the mac, might be PC specific, anyone care to chime in?

I have Phocus on PC. For example blown out sky becomes grayish on preview when you move the exposure slider to the left. At 100% view they are nice and blue and all recovered data is visible. I can make a screen shot, it can be easier to show than to describe :)

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- ability to switch to a full screen preview

Would be nice to see an image at full screen when tethered or when reviewing your work. Would need to hide all the interface with one shortcut key. Maybe it's already possible?

Quote- selection rectangle for custom WB

Selection marquee tool so the white balance calculated not from one pixel but an average value taken from a custom selected area.

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- adjustments for a group of selected images

This has always been in the software if I understand you correctly.. Select an image, make some changes, then select a bunch more (including the one you made changes to) and hit "modify" make sense?

Got it. Thanks!

A couple more things ;)
Manual and automatic working directory refreshing when files are renamed or new files appear.
Currently if you rename a file and try to export it you'll get an error in most cases. So you have to change the directory and get back to it for refreshed results. F5 on PC doesn't refresh as expected.

If Phocus could see exported Tiffs, even just thumbnails would do. And with a double click it would send them to Photoshop, that could make the life easier. But this is a minor wish.

Oleksiy

The unfortunate loss of end point control with Phocus (v1.1.2)
Many of us who follow this forum are professional photographers, and typically our work is reproduced in some printed form. Therefore it's important that we work in tandem with the separators and printers who reproduce our work.
When digital files replaced transparencies, the color separation industry made it clear that the photographer is responsible for furnishing RGB files that can be reproduced. The brightest and darkest areas must hold information. The capture end points of 0-255 that photographers typically shoot don't necessarily fit in that category.
Quoting the Flexcolor manual 4.0, "printers often request that images be prepared to lie within certain limits," meaning the extremes of 0-255 must be reduced (i.e. 5-250) during export. Using Flexcolor's dot tab (in user settings) does an excellent job of this. Capture One also does an outstanding job with Custom Target Levels.
It's quite a shock to see and understand why the current version of Phocus (v1.1.2) has eliminated this capability.
Some suggest to reduce the end points using pixel-based software (i.e. Photoshop, etc). Quoting the Capture One 4.0 manual, "with conventional pixel based image tools, output levels are used to compress the tonal range of the image to fit in a smaller space, for example re-mapping highlight values of 255 to 245. Whilst this prevents clipping, it means that there is a sharp cut-off of image data, leading to a hard transition between data and no data when the image is re-opened".
Simply stated, "after the fact" manipulation produces inferior results and doubles workflow.

It's critical that we maintain end point control when exporting our raw files. Let's hope that the next release of Phocus returns to the refined level of end point control.

How about CMS in phocus?

In Flexcolor, I can set it up. but i did,nt find in Phocus.

I know that Phocus looks groovy, but a lighter back ground and possibly larger text would help on location... Trying to see the screen on a bright day...

Oh and please can we have the input value selection as we do in Flexcolor...

thank you powers that be!

Hugh

I tried phocus last week on location. Since the pace was fairly slow and only a minimum of items needed to be shot I decided to use Phocus instead of Flexcolor. Still several things really do need to be done with Phocus before I can really use it on location instead of Flexcolor.

1) Please could the 100% loupe/preview get included in Phocus? When a multishot image has been made the stylists always want to see several parts of the composition at 100%. Phocus is a total drag in that area.
2) Now this sounds truly weird. Can it be arranged we can set the time between shots when doing multishot? With Flexcolor the time between shots was longer which meant a: the image after the shots was on the screen sooner. The total time with Phocus might be shorter but after the last shot has been fired it takes longer. Everytime there is this annoying wait, please join me with some very impatient female stylists that don't even want to know about technology but just want to see the image. I guarantuee you this is not pleasant! b: I want more control over the timing to be also able to include small flashes (that recycle slower than the shots get taken at this moment!)
3) Please, please, please. Include 1 separate capture button for multishot images! I hate to constantly having to select multi and than capture to get the multishot image. Keeping it at multi is not an option. We capture single shots until we (the stylists) are happy and make 1 final single shot followed by a multishot.

For now,  Phocus is still not able to keep up with an on location shoot with more than say 30 items. This has to improve.

You make some very good points!

You wrote:

b: I want more control over the timing to be also able to include small flashes (that recycle slower than the shots get taken at this moment!)

You can set this in preferences under flash delay!
Nick-T

Layered 16 bit TIFF (for exporting moire filtered files)

Thx Nick! Wil give that a go right away. Would be truly helpful.

BTW I really like the 16bits layered tiff files as well. Tiff is preferred over PSD, much faster on the Mac.

Just a little thing - I would love to see the adjustments via arrow keys for the White Balance to be in multiples of 10 and with shift to be in multiples of 50.  I think single degree changes in the White Balance are a bit too fine an adjustment.  Or, better yet - a preference or a checkbox so that you could have more coarse adjustments or finer adjustments, whatever your preference. 

Is this wish list still in operation?
I've posted this issue before other places in the forum:
My work in an archive mainly consists of reproduction of glassplates and other negative formats. It would be great to be able to convert these to positive in Phocus, either by end-point-inversion of the curve (possible in Flexcolor) or some other invert-function like the one in Photoshop.
So:
inversion, please  8)

I would love to be able  with a copy&repaistamp to remove the sensordustspots, in a way like it´s possible in PS-lightroom. It would be very nice to have.
kr v Hörbi

Items for tethered operation.  Implement bracketing, and make the tethered mode usable while one tends to a view camera or Hasselblad without software controlled focus/aperture.

1. Exposure bracketing with electronic shutter.  Exposure trigger should activate the Rollei controller while retaining its "advanced feature" settings.
2. Exposure bracketing with manual shutters.  Provide bracketing mode in the exposure menu and selectable delay time to cock the shutter between shots.
2. Hold last aperture setting when liveview selected.  It now jumps to f22 much of the time (but not all).
3. Dealyed exposure setting.  Have a delayed exposure mode with audible warning.  This could be <cntrl-M> instead of <cntrl-N>.  Would let us get away from the computer to move lights during the exposure.
4. Remote interface.  Interface to a cheap windows and mac RF remote control so that we can work from up on a ladder, etc.  Best thing would be something like a Windows Media Center remote with exposure time on the forward and rewind buttons, exposure trigger on play, etc. 
5. Remote interface, phase 2.  Many of these devices are bidirectional now, so it would be easy to show a camera control window on the remote's display.  A local home theater guy programs more complex things every day. 

I would like to be able to work on files while focus is doing something else in the background eq importing or exporting. It is possible in aperture so why not in Phocus

It is certainly possible to work on files on Phocus while others are queued for export and I assume the same for import (though I don't thik I've ever tried it.
Nick-T

I understand that DAC lens corrections take into account focus distance. Having discussed this with other Hasselblad users it would appear that I'm not alone in wanting to see this measurement, if possible, included in the camera data.

Thanks

Keith

To be able to stamp with © info or watermark graphic so can export to email jpegs without having to import into Aperture or Lightroom to perform this simple function

Phil

Output profile preview on the main viewer.

right now it's difficult to see whether I'm working on matching color profiles or not.

To be able to switch on or off Ultra Focus corrections when shots are done on manual focus mode. As it is now, I understand the Ultra Focus is not use the aperture info to calculate the actual focal point when in manual AF mode.

Virtual horizon which Phase has. Apparently, the back can tell you when it is level. that would be such a good feature for me. I'm forever wrestling with trying to get a level horizon and often still get it wrong. My very expensive Arca Cube is useless, and the grid screen, while good, is still limited.

This would be the equivalent of True Focus for the landscape photographer.

I gave up wishing for this and purchased a hot-shoe bubble level, and now everything is straight. I carry several with me because I lose them sometimes. (I never use a bubble level on the tripod because I use a ball head.) But it's a fantastic idea and I'm sure the body already has the sensor to know if it's level. Be well.

EDIT: I saw your post at getgeepeeI and the advice to use an app with the iPhone; this is what I use:

http://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/263729-REG/Manfrotto_337_337_2_Axis_Flash_Hot.html

Kind regards,
Derek

Quote from: Jeff on August 07, 2010, 11:39:26 AM
Virtual horizon which Phase has. Apparently, the back can tell you when it is level. that would be such a good feature for me. I'm forever wrestling with trying to get a level horizon and often still get it wrong. My very expensive Arca Cube is useless, and the grid screen, while good, is still limited.

This would be the equivalent of True Focus for the landscape photographer.

Thanks Derek. I have a few of these too. I was hoping that the Cube at close to $A3K would have accurate bubbles but it would appear that my expectations were too high. I might have to go back to the tried and true hot shoe bubble.

This is the first time that I have ever had Phase envy. Apparently, you turn it on and it beeps at you when it is level. The camera already has the tilt sensor, so it is a firmware fix. I think dentists around the world would be forever grateful.

There ar some issues I miss, but first I would be happy when Phocus works whithout breaking down alll 5-10 Min when checking or working with files. Thats tthes reason why I make more pictures again with the Nikons...
(nearly new Powermac 8core, 12gig Ram). No problem with any other software... remo

Not sure if this has been noted before...

...but when I'm importing cards to Phocus, it would be great if it could remember the previous import, in terms of the frame number.  For instance, I shove in Card One, tweak the import dialogue to my preferences. (all are sticky, thanks) and import 73 files. Then, I put in Card Two and everything is perfect, EXCEPT that the numbering has been reset to '1'.  Now, if I wasn't paying attention (and I wasn't) I have to cancel out, go back to the program, make a note as to how many files were previously imported and then re-start the dialogue and input the correct frame number.  Is there a way to have the frame number sticky?

Quote from: Alastair Bird on August 17, 2010, 12:28:59 PM
Not sure if this has been noted before...

...but when I'm importing cards to Phocus, it would be great if it could remember the previous import, in terms of the frame number.  For instance, I shove in Card One, tweak the import dialogue to my preferences. (all are sticky, thanks) and import 73 files. Then, I put in Card Two and everything is perfect, EXCEPT that the numbering has been reset to '1'.  Now, if I wasn't paying attention (and I wasn't) I have to cancel out, go back to the program, make a note as to how many files were previously imported and then re-start the dialogue and input the correct frame number.  Is there a way to have the frame number sticky?

...but I just shoved in a new card and the filename was sticky.  So now I'm confused - in one instance it was sticky, in another it was not.  hmmmm

This is a thing that had me puzzled for awhile as well. This works but... you have to import to the same directory and the same naming scheme. This way it will continue numbering. I still am not entirely convinced, sofar a scheme like 'name+date+sequence' seems to work the best for archival purposes.

I have harped on these before so I apologize to those of you who have seen these suggestions in other forums.

1) I would like to see a return of the Eye Droppers to the Tone Curve. I want all three Black, Neutral and White. We use these many times a day to optimize our images for print.

2) Please simplify the Crop Tool by allowing us to input the values we need manually and a simple lock icon so that when the crop is resized that values stay the same. Right now one has to use 2 different menus to achieve this result.

3) I would like to save all of the Capture, Adjust and Export settings in one setup file. One would only have to select the file (Web) and all of the settings would automatically reset to the saved values. This would really help streamline quick paced production shooting. (if this is already possible, someone please let me know how to do it)

Thank you

Brian

Just a note re this thread (and any other wishlist thread) I go through these suggestions and pass them on to Hasselblad at the end of every month so your requests do get heard!
Nick-T

How can I make phocus always start with 1 as next number in sequence, without having to set it afresh.

How can I make Phocus always load images from the start of a project instead of the end? Meaning... when you go to a new project you get the last frames, common sense would say you'd want to start at the beginning.

Monty

Remote control of zoom from Phocus.

Auto focus bracketing from Phocus and in camera... this would eliminate a good reason to get HTS or a view camera!

Virtual Copies

Quote from: MW on September 24, 2010, 10:37:03 AM
Virtual Copies

i assume you want virtual copies of images with different Adjustment settings ?

you can achieve that now by saving several adjustment sets in one image and switching between them from the Adjustments Browser panel. it's not terribly elegant but it works.

Wanted to request it a long time ago, but keep forgetting.

A Gradient Filter tab in Phocus with full control over the start and the end point, gradient tilt, its color and density. With the dynamic range that we have the result could be very similar to physical gradient filters in front of the lens.

Alex

Quote from: Alex Maxim on September 24, 2010, 02:05:48 PM
Wanted to request it a long time ago, but keep forgetting.

A Gradient Filter tab in Phocus with full control over the start and the end point, gradient tilt, its color and density. With the dynamic range that we have the result could be very similar to physical gradient filters in front of the lens.

Alex

¿This would avoid having to process two versions of the file, and mask and re-merge them in Photoshop?

Don't tell anyone, but I am booked in for a phocus workshop with David Grover next month, so now might be a good time to ask re tricks, tips and work-arounds. ¿Anybody else booked in?

The 'Hasselbuddy' day Oct 12th ? I'm trying to free the day up so I can attend.

alex.

Quote from: Dick Roadnight on September 24, 2010, 11:32:36 PM
¿This would avoid having to process two versions of the file, and mask and re-merge them in Photoshop?

Well, the same you  can say about straightening, highlight and shadow recovery, end point control etc.
Yes, it would save time, especially if you are working on a few similar images and want to just copy the adjustments.
And you will have your fff  with a filter applied within seconds, not minutes as it would take to export two files with different names, merge in photoshop, apply a mask, apply filters if you need another density/color etc.

Hi Dick and Alex

I'm booked in for the 'Hasselbuddy' day on the 12th too, so hope to see you there. The sesion on Phocus 2.6 and mobile Phocus will be interesting - wonder if we'll get the betas to use at home too afterwards?

Henry

Hi Henry,

I am afraid the answer is no with regards to a Phocus Mobile beta.  Before it goes to the Apple store it will not run on your iDevice unless the serial number for it is stored in Phocus Mobile itself.  There are also only 100 slots available which we will use for beta testing distribution.

This is to prevent unauthorised apps being distributed.

David

Hi David,

Ah - I thought that the iTunes Store issue might be a problem with the Phocus Mobile - but what about Phocus 2.6?

Kind regards,

Henry

Quote from: David Grover on September 30, 2010, 03:41:03 AM
Hi Henry,

I am afraid the answer is no with regards to a Phocus Mobile beta.  Before it goes to the Apple store it will not run on your iDevice unless the serial number for it is stored in Phocus Mobile itself.  There are also only 100 slots available which we will use for beta testing distribution.

This is to prevent unauthorised apps being distributed.

David

Hi, David...

If you get short of beta testers, count me in.
I hope to use an IPad for eShutters, phocus and the Clauss pan head.

Quote from: Dick Roadnight on September 22, 2010, 09:49:45 AM
Remote control of zoom from Phocus.

Auto focus bracketing from Phocus and in camera... this would eliminate a good reason to get HTS or a view camera!

The zoom isn't powered Dick, so this is not possible.

One of the Japanese giants holds a patent on focus bracketing in-camera so it can't be done.

Quote from: David Grover on September 30, 2010, 07:58:49 PM

Quote from: Dick Roadnight on September 22, 2010, 09:49:45 AM
Remote control of zoom from Phocus.

Auto focus bracketing from Phocus and in camera... this would eliminate a good reason to get HTS or a view camera!

The zoom isn't powered Dick, so this is not possible.

One of the Japanese giants holds a patent on focus bracketing in-camera so it can't be done.

Here is a thought, why not use the focus step feature in Phocus. It should be posible to write a routine that would capture at optimum focus and then capture additional images at # steps + focus and # steps - focus.
Give it a try and post your feedback here.

(The ability for a user to write the routine does not yet exist so far as I am aware but lets keep our fingers crossed).

Quote from: David Grover on September 30, 2010, 07:58:49 PM

Quote from: Dick Roadnight on September 22, 2010, 09:49:45 AM
Remote control of zoom from Phocus.

The zoom isn't powered Dick, so this is not possible.

It is a pain, but it should be possible with a remotely controlled stepper motor, hopefully controlled from the same IPad that controls everything else.

Quote from: David Grover on September 30, 2010, 07:58:49 PM

Quote from: Dick Roadnight on September 22, 2010, 09:49:45 AM
Auto focus bracketing from Phocus and in camera... this would eliminate a good reason to get HTS or a view camera!

One of the Japanese giants holds a patent on focus bracketing in-camera so it can't be done.

¿Might there be two ways round this?
Come to an agreement to use the patent.
Do it in phocus rather than in the camera

Is there a Phocus Software Development Kit?

Dick,

If you're suggesting an external motor to move the lens zoom position (a la early autofocus adapters for manual lenses in the late 70's) ? That becomes a one off custom job, why spend time trying to support it in Phocus ? If you really want it, build one from parts, control it with an Arduino board and remote control it from Processing on a laptop.

Right now you can achieve focus bracketing by remote control from Phocus at the moment, but as Grandguru suggests it has to be done by manually hitting the focus adjust controls between shots.

There isn't a Phocus SDK at the moment.
Going forward, it would be interesting if Phocus were to become scriptable (Applescript or similar).
This could allow a whole lot of interesting automated shooting; timelapse, bracketing, etc. without the Phocus dev's having to imagine every possible thing we might want to do.

alex.

Yep!  There is.  ;)

i stand corrected.  :)

Where can the SDK be found ?

Send me a PM and I can give you access info.

Quote from: alexkent on October 01, 2010, 12:47:29 AM
Dick,

If you're suggesting an external motor to move the lens zoom position (a la early autofocus adapters for manual lenses in the late 70's) ? That becomes a one off custom job, why spend time trying to support it in Phocus ? If you really want it, build one from parts, control it with an Arduino board and remote control it from Processing on a laptop.

Yes, I realize it would be a custom job, unless one of the photo-antenna mfrs have something. It would be nice to have it supported in Phocus, but I was just thinking I might be able to control it from the same IPad. ¿who are Arduino and what do they do? I am a qualified electronic engineer, which might help.

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Right now you can achieve focus bracketing by remote control from Phocus at the moment, but as Grandguru suggests it has to be done by manually hitting the focus adjust controls between shots.
alex.

Yes, but that is a pain... what I would like is a system that (like StackShot) allows you to specify start and stop extensions, and the number of incremental focusing points and consistently do a professional job to any COC yardstick you want. ¿Could a Phocus SDK do that... it would need to know the focus distance, or the extension... or it could just work on focus motor run time.

I am thinking of using something like StackShot ¿Velmex? on the rear standard of a Sinar for landscapes (with a Hasselblad digiback).

Quote from: David Grover on October 01, 2010, 03:19:34 AM
Send me a PM and I can give you access info.

Why is a secret David?

No secret - but there is a few things we need to discuss before releasing the info!

Quote from: David Grover on October 01, 2010, 11:07:17 PM
No secret - but there is a few things we need to discuss before releasing the info!

Yeesh! There are no secrets. It is a good thing that Hassy offers it but unless you are a programmer, you do not need the SDK. You will have to sign documents to get the SDK.

I should not have said anything, sorry.

;d

Quote from: Derek Jecxz on October 02, 2010, 12:12:06 AM

Quote from: David Grover on October 01, 2010, 11:07:17 PM
No secret - but there is a few things we need to discuss before releasing the info!

Yeesh! There are no secrets. It is a good thing that Hassy offers it but unless you are a programmer, you do not need the SDK. You will have to sign documents to get the SDK.

I should not have said anything, sorry.

;d

I am a "has been" real-time programmer, what programming language is it in?

David, could you bring the documents to London with you?

Dick,

I'll email you the readme file. Other than that I can offer no more support. The purpose of the SDK is mostly for aerial companies for geosurvey. It's also been used in automated document reproduction.

As the SDK is not of interest to most members, I suggest other discussions should be taken of list.

David.

Could we please have colour temperature that goes below 2000. I'm often shooting in sodium vapour, which is not in itself a problem but there seems to be some new lighting that needs more than 2000 correction.

Thanks

Monty

Please could we have a tool, lassoo, magic wand, whatever, so that we can make selective adjustments.

Thank you.

I asked David Grover and Chris Russel-Fish today,,, but can we have direct control of Sinar eShutters from Phocus? (As is already possible with Schneider Electronic Shutters).

Quote from: Dick Roadnight on October 13, 2010, 08:32:56 AM
I asked David Grover and Chris Russel-Fish today,,, but can we have direct control of Sinar eShutters from Phocus? (As is already possible with Schneider Electronic Shutters).

I think you will find that Sinar are not interested in sharing the shutter control to other companies.

Quote from: David Grover on October 13, 2010, 07:21:50 PM

Quote from: Dick Roadnight on October 13, 2010, 08:32:56 AM
I asked David Grover and Chris Russel-Fish today,,, but can we have direct control of Sinar eShutters from Phocus? (As is already possible with Schneider Electronic Shutters).

I think you will find that Sinar are not interested in sharing the shutter control to other companies.

Hi, David,

Thanks for the Hasselbuddy Phocus 2.6 Seminar yesterday... very informative - have you put it all on a Phocus video tutorial?

The eShutters are supposed to be Schneider compatible, so the might be phocus (plug) compatible etc.

If they want to sell their shutters they need to make them compatible.

They are encouraging us all to to convert all or old lenses.

Quote from: Derek Jecxz on October 13, 2010, 11:46:48 AM
Yes, the whatever tool would be really cool!

I've always had problems with lasso and wands but the whatever tool, as I envisage it, would automatically select whatever I had in mind.

Got to be a winner.

;D

Here's the icon for it:

Quote from: NickT on October 14, 2010, 08:58:28 AM
Here's the icon for it:

...and that's exactly how I envisaged it!

Quote from: Derek Jecxz on October 14, 2010, 04:16:32 AM
The whatever tool will also be a keyboard shortcut activated by pressing Ctrl-A + Alt-W + M followed by Space Bar and clicking the image with the mouse. From there you can do whatever you want.

Thanks, Derek, appreciated.

Can some kind soul now suggest how I can untie the reef knot that was once my fingers? 

Fingers successfully untied.

I used the whatever tool.

not sure if this has been covered, a search for "dodge and burn" doesn't show anything...

how about a dodge and burn tool for Phocus? And then the ability to export the resulting file as a psd layers like moire, so further work can be done in PS. I think it might be better to work the dodge and burn directly on the raw file. Though if we liken the raw to the negative, then the dodge and burn is carried out during printing...so perhaps the equivalent would be to do the process if needed in a post processing sw like PS? What do you guys think?

I need

Flip horizontal like a flexcolor

Proof color CMYK like a flexcolor

Flexible color correction like a flexcolor

Preview shot  like a flexcolor

More flexible curve

Color live video

Fast export processing

More upgrade clarity tool like a C1 pro

Free layout for dual monitor

Lens distortion correction

Use plug in other company (example Nik color Efex.....)
 
HDR processing

Phocus is too heavy and slow

Here's one for movement users.  Do live view with a split screen.  Takes forever to zoom up the near focus point, zoom down, move zoom circle to far focus point, zoom up, repeat.

Allow two live view displays, side by side, with independent zoom views.  Would make tilts and swings much easier.

I would love a colour editor like the one in, ahem, C1... But also, (and more reasonably, I think) I've just started using Growl with DropBox, CS5, Transmit, Net News Wire, and it's awfully nice to have a little note when the program does something, or finishes a task.  Is it possible that Phocus could be programmed to offer Growl updates?

I have 2 suggestions:

- low(er) resolution live video: the actual live video is sluggish. it would be great to have an half- or quarter-resolution live view preview, just to speed up things! then you could switch to the full live video on-the-fly, if needed. I hope this is possible with the current hardware, I assume if the sensor outputs only half the data, it will be faster (or not?)

- cropping during live video: when you select a crop and ratios in the shots, it would be great that also the following live video will honour the crop. even better, it could behave just like the normal crop: when selected you also see the uncropped portion grayed-out, then you can crop it if you want. of course, if you use the crop in the live video it should be applied in the final shot (as always)

As I sit here weeding through photos from my last trip, I am again reminded that I would love a "sticky note" of similar function that would allow me to create a brief note on the file, preferably with a little icon on on next to the thumbnail to show that I had made a note.  There are things that I'd love to note such as "consider conversion to B&W", Next 5 files are for stitched pano, next 5 files are for focus blending, etc.  That would definitely help my file management in Phocus.

Cheers,
Bill

new suggestion:

the hassy approval rating is great, but it would be even more useful if the color would be reflected with the Finder's labels (Mac only feature).
this way if you tag a photo with the green, yellow or red "dot" in Phocus, you could also tell the color just looking at the Finder - the file name would be highlighted in green, yellow or red.
this should be an option in the prefs, though.
I think this would be a timesaver and a great little feature.

+1 on the sticky note.  Doesn't the camera back have a speaker and microphone?  A simple recording attached to the raw file would be extremely useful and easier than trying to type something.

Would love to be able to force a file to be processed next. For instance, I'm processing out several hundred files from a previous project, and I'm shooting one right now where I need some quick JPeg previews. Would love to be able to force Phocus to process them next and then go back to the other queue.

Quote from: Bill L. on December 26, 2010, 06:25:35 AM
As I sit here weeding through photos from my last trip, I am again reminded that I would love a "sticky note" of similar function that would allow me to create a brief note on the file, preferably with a little icon on on next to the thumbnail to show that I had made a note.  There are things that I'd love to note such as "consider conversion to B&W", Next 5 files are for stitched pano, next 5 files are for focus blending, etc.  That would definitely help my file management in Phocus.

Cheers,
Bill

Why set your sites so low. Try this, add an appropriate keyword to the images you want to select, could be an acronym meaning much more than a single word. You could add more than one keyword. Then just write the keyword into the search bar and all the pictures in folder that have that key word will be displayed. This way or sorting images beats the IAA and star system by miles and has an unlimited numbers of levels.

Autocheck for both Phocus updates and camera firmware

Would be nice if Phocus would use different colors (red, green) for selected vs non-selected items in the Tool Bar such as Viewer, Browser, Thumbnails, Tools, Highlight Warning, Shadow Warning, Zoom Tool, Hand Tool etc.  I can never remember if light grey or lighter grey is on or off.  When viewing thumbnails on my monitor, I often enlarge them to see better.  If I double click on one to see it alone in the Viewer, then try to return to Thumbnails, the thumbnails are all at the minimum size again.  Is there a trick to making the enlargement factor stick.  I am on Mac OS 10.6.6  Also, sometimes I download files, convert, rate, and adjust photos in the field on my laptop and would like to transfer this information to the desktop when home.  Can this be done somehow?  Thanks for your expert advice.

Of all the wishes, I just want a selectable background. I would even settle for a mid-tone grey, just not black. I always have to guess how my image is going to look once it is in PS.

Not my first on the list, but options for making contact-sheets would also be nice.

Quote from: fotostig on February 22, 2011, 11:55:29 PM
Not my first on the list, but options for making contact-sheets would also be nice.

you can print and export contact sheets now, but it's not entirely obvious: (instructions are on Mac, but i presume something similar is possible on PC)

With the thumbnails you want to include in your contact sheet selected (make sure the Thumbnail view is 'hilighted' not the main Viewer)
Then hit File > Print
Then in the Phocus print options you can switch between 'Full Image' and 'Contact Sheet'.
You can save this contact sheet as a PDF by hitting the PDF button in the bottom left corner of the Print dialog (the Save as PDF...).

alex.

Quote from: Steve C on February 09, 2011, 12:06:31 PM
Would be nice if Phocus would use different colors (red, green) for selected vs non-selected items in the Tool Bar such as Viewer, Browser, Thumbnails, Tools, Highlight Warning, Shadow Warning, Zoom Tool, Hand Tool etc.  I can never remember if light grey or lighter grey is on or off.  When viewing thumbnails on my monitor, I often enlarge them to see better.  If I double click on one to see it alone in the Viewer, then try to return to Thumbnails, the thumbnails are all at the minimum size again.  Is there a trick to making the enlargement factor stick.  I am on Mac OS 10.6.6  Also, sometimes I download files, convert, rate, and adjust photos in the field on my laptop and would like to transfer this information to the desktop when home.  Can this be done somehow?  Thanks for your expert advice.

Steve,

Have you tried using Layouts to switch between different views?  You could create a large Thumbnails one and swap back and forth. 

Any adjustments / ratings etc are stored within the 3F files.  If you copy them over to another computer, then this information will stick.

Dear Santa,

i wish that Hasselblad build a syst (wifi, bluetooth or something), to transmit images from the body to my ipad. Then in such a way, they dont have to build a 4" LCD monitor on the camera. The battery on camera will also last longer.

Thanks Santa...  :D

...the battery would be over in a flash with WiFi.  ;)

Quote from: Jeff on February 14, 2011, 05:28:40 PM
Of all the wishes, I just want a selectable background. I would even settle for a mid-tone grey, just not black. I always have to guess how my image is going to look once it is in PS.

:P oh, yes please! it's fundamental for adjusting...

I would love to see the ability to make a camera profile. Shoot an X-rite card or even a color checker passport and have Phocus create a camera profile from it automatically. I noticed the H4D60 is particularly weak in the reds, profiling ability would be nice.

I know I can do it manually which is exactly what I do right now but it is a PITA.

A correct WB is not going to help you when the camera renders specific colors in a wrong way with certain lighting conditions. This is when you profile the camera in that lighting condition.

I think it must have been mentioned before numerous times but one of my biggest current wishes is the ability to make local adjustments. I would love to locally adjust EV values and recovery (or other things but these 2 are most valuable IMO). I hate having to process files sometimes twice with different EV values and having to combine and blend them in PS.

I do not understand why Phocus does not use a cache for the picture previes and full views.

Right now scrolling down lots of pictures allways causes Phocus to recreate the thumbs and also the full view if a picture is selected. i.e. the Adobe Bridge creates a cache for previews and full views which makes it much faster to work with bunches of pictures. It can not be that complicated to implement this.

Also there seems to be some bug with the Phocus view mode of pictures. They turn out to be slightly unsharp in full (fitted) view, but when switching to 100% and then back to full (fitted) view they appear obviously sharper. Can anybody confirm this?

would like to see an Android version of Phocus Remote and with that working with Phocus Windows.

Quote from: Dustbak on March 26, 2011, 12:58:49 AM
I think it must have been mentioned before numerous times but one of my biggest current wishes is the ability to make local adjustments. I would love to locally adjust EV values and recovery (or other things but these 2 are most valuable IMO). I hate having to process files sometimes twice with different EV values and having to combine and blend them in PS.

I think I've also probably mentioned this before, but in case I haven't, yes please.

Quote from: Derek Jecxz on April 03, 2011, 11:32:12 PM

Quote from: pchong on April 03, 2011, 09:06:15 PM
would like to see an Android version of Phocus Remote and with that working with Phocus Windows.

You can do this now with a remote desktop client application for Android.

;d

Thanks Derek...would you mind sharing which Andrioid app? I am thinking of an interface which allows me to either see the entire Phocus screen on an Android device (I know on a smartphone is rediculous due to the small size, but prehaps a tablet) or have the controls plus a preview screen of what has been shot.

As a collorary to this wish, perhaps a device connected to the H body to wirelessly transmit preview pics to a tablet.

Ability to copy the GPS coordinates of an image from Phocus and paste in another app or browser.

Why can't it work with the X1D ???  :-\

I am missing the feature to define presets for whole image looks - but maybe I need to read the manual again?  :-X