colin_mattson1

<p>How are you metering your existing equipment?</p> <p>If the answer is "I'm not," that's your problem right there. Several thousand dollars of brand new equipment is a poor solution when you can pick up a used incident meter for all of $150.</p> <p>Assuming the setup isn't changing, one meter reading and one adjustment on your lights should cover a good 98% of your subjects.</p>

<p>The summer is non-stop sale season for Phase One, so if you miss this one, just wait another few weeks and it'll be by again. ;)</p> <p>And yes, it's a download. Phase One hasn't offered a boxed version directly for some time; at the rate with which they release updates, there's really no benefit to a disc. Even buying a box from B&H or another retailer, you'd just end up downloading the whole thing again anyway.</p>

<p>I'm not sure where a problem shows up there; the segmented RGBCMY wheel is a simplified mental model. There's no need to "define red" because a single definition of red is irrelevant.</p> <p>Is it reddish? Then it's red, and its complement is cyan. If it's more orange, then it's going to be more blue. That's the whole point of the model.</p>

<p>That's an odd one. It <em>should</em> work correctly regardless of the output format.</p> <p>Are you up-to-date with version 3.14.15?</p>

<p>Correct. DPP "recipes" are lossless parametric adjustments, as occurs in Lightroom or Capture One. They're just metadata until you decide you want a file with those adjustments permanently baked in.</p> <p>If you want those adjustments to be available outside of DPP, you need to process the file out into a TIFF (or JPEG, or PNG, or whatever).</p>

<p>Eric,<br> Yep, give 'em a call. They can walk you through some troubleshooting and set up a repair if needed.<br> I don't know how long ago you got them, but they could potentially even still be under warranty. </p>

<blockquote> <p>I can't remember where I read this, but I had thought that photoshop wouldn't do many functions at higher than 8 bit.</p> </blockquote> <p>A little over a decade ago, that would have been true. The move to 16bpc support started ages ago and is basically done with today. We're now at the point now where <em>most</em> functions will even work in 32bpc. That this kind of information never dies is a liability of the information age.</p> <p>Unless you're rocking an extremely old version of Photoshop (or a woefully underpowered computer—the extra overhead does demand a bit of added grunt), 16 bit is perfectly fine. It's the golden age and the water's fine. Come on in! ;)</p> <p>Like Mssrs. Harrington and Ferrel, I don't see anything out of the ordinary in your crop.</p> <p>To throw another possibility out there, it could be a bad monitor profile, assuming you've profiled your monitor.</p>