For the saving you'd make, if you were after one, it would be worth checking your not-so-near stores - at that price it would be worth the drive!

Alternatively, shopping around does show the Pentax version at £149 (www.srsmicrosystems.co.uk, possibly others too).

Dan

Frankly, Currys can quote any price they want if there's no hope of anyone buying it at that price. They don't offer home delivery, just a 'reserve and collect' service, but I challenge you to find a store with any in stock.

Click 'Add to Basket', then proceed to checkout, where you can enter your postcode, or town, and they'll show you the stock in your nearest 3 stores.

I bet they don't have any.

Dan

Edit: Should have read Mannesty's post first...

What about Chris at SRS? What better way to encourage us to buy proper Pentax glass, if he shows us that the Samsung stuff is inferior.

Dan

When any material meets another, we have a surface that can reflect light. So a glass/air interface will mean that a certain percentage of light will get reflected from the surface. The amount of light reflected depends on the materials.

The coatings will have different characteristics with regard to the amount of light reflected off their surface, and again at their boundary with the glass. Careful choice of materials means that very little light is reflected.

I think that's it!

Dan

That's true... Hadn't thought of it that way.

Dan

Wasn't implying that they didn't have any coatings, just that it would appear to be unlikely that it's SMC. But that doesn't mean it's not...

Dan

Don't think the Samsung has support for tethered shooting yet. Although it's firmware version is 1.20, there's no mention of a 'Remote Assistant' type of thing. Has all the other enhancements though (wireless flash, extra e-dial functions, etc).

No mention of any coatings at all on the Samsung website. Doesn't even come up in a search. I would have thought if the Samsung lenses had an SMC equivalent, they would be marked as such, although the abbreviation would be different - MFC? (Many Fantastic Coatings)

Dan

I think you're right about it being a different program Tom!

Does it look anything like this?



Not sure what you mean about "...opening the focus window as opposed to just the tab, renders all the controls in the main window inoperable" : So you can open a focus window? Not just the focus tab on the right hand side?

Don't have the focus area top-left default thing you have.

Zooming in and out on the preview is quick, but, on windows at least, you only get a hi-res rendering at 100%, all others, as far as I know, are lo-res. It's the 100% view that takes a second to render.

It does sound like the versions are quite different.

Just had a look at the Phase One website and a couple of Mac tutorials, and it is surprising how different it is.


Dan

Zooming to 100% should be just 2 clicks (or ctrl+alt+0 apparently, but that doesn't seem to work for me ). It takes a second to render properly, but it's fairly quick. Otherwise, you can expand the focus window - when you're on the focus tab, the third icon across the top, at least in the windows version, allows you to show bigger focus previews. I find that these render pretty much instantly.

Magnification is shown top right, along the little status bar, you'll see something like: 71%/17%. The second percentage is the magnification. Haven't been able to figure out the first, but it's 4 times the second.

Click on the magnifying glass, then clicking on the image will zoom in in steps of 25%. You can also use alt+up/down arrow.

Slow - prehaps your processor? Clumsy in what way? That you have to select the tab? Other than that, there's not much to it...

I really like Capture One, and didn't get on with Silkypix. But many others love Silkypix, and if it's the noise reduction you need it may well be the way to go. I tend to use low ISOs when noise ain't a problem!

Dan

Er, no... Didn't you try the Pro version of C1? Might have been there (which you probably hacked about and got the option in LE ).


Dan