Wahey!, I'm a Professional!
Yep, I'm back from Denmark with a framed certificate that lets everyone know I'm officially a Phase One Professional. (I've only been selling them for 8 years!)
It was a great trip, many thanks to Jesper, Claus, Ulf, Mia and Ditte for an informative and entertaining three days.
For those of you hoping for the inside scoop on Capture One 4 Pro, I'm afraid I'll have to disappoint you, they're being very tight lipped about it, we couldn't even get a sneak peek!
We did have a day looking at the Beta of Capture One 4 (formerly LE) though (this was the best bit of the week for me).
I much prefer the new file navigator to the old system and I love the fact that you can zoom all the way into an image without having to use a separate focus tool window.
You can see that the software developers have really listened to the feedback they get from users, in fact, whilst we were there we gave them a few 'wouldn't it be great if's which were eagerly noted down and I'm sure passed on.
It was good to meet Ulf who despite being an installation manager seems to spend most of his time looking after customers on the Phase One Forum.
Oh, Danish beef, wow!
If you have any questions, put them in the comments....
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..and Peter for the software demo! When you see the intentions of the software engineers (regardless of how finished the beta is) I think C4 is remarkable. Lets hope it lands sooner rather than later.
Yeah, I was desperately trying to remember his name!
Regarding Capure 4, I agree, they know exactly where to go with it.
It reminds me of when I saw the Canon 1DMkIII, you could tell they'd really looked at what photogs had asked for and implemented it perfectly.
The real question is whether they can actually deliver on the promises and expectations. Their track record so far hasn't been good - C4 is nearly a year overdue and they don't seem to have any intention of supporting Vista on C3. You've only got to spend five minutes on their forum to realise they've got a growing number of alienated, frustrated users out there.
Something obviously went wrong somewhere in the past with C4 development but it seems like it's back on track now.
It's been a pain for me as I've held off on doing PhaseOne assistants training courses in the hope that 4 would be out soon.
C4 will work on vista and as far as I understand it will be a free upgrade to all 3.7 users, so, although it's taken some time, it is coming.
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