I've had a few questions lately about the i1 Match software, and how to use it to run a monitor calibration.  Here's a quick walkthrough:
 

Working with lenses, and evaluating lens quality and performance can be, on the one hand, one of the easier things in photography to quantify. Optics is a well-understood science, there have been few breakthrough developments in lens construction since as far back as the 1950s. It’s been said that there have really been no discoveries in optical science since the ‘20s, in fact- although the introduction of metallic multi-coatings and glass formulae have certainly come a long way since the ‘60s. Getting performance numbers for lenses is almost as straightforward as hooking up a race-car to a dynamometer. The results are pretty much irrefutable. 

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Apparently, someone at PhaseOne has a sense of humor...  and size DOES matter.

Thanks, and a shout to Chris Barrett from over on the Luminous Landscape MFDB forum!  

Chris reports a 16TB partition on his Drobo...  And we DID try to test it, but we got nothin that BIG! 

OK, I'm stealing a little thunder from our News Desk, but here's the news of the morning.  C1 now has a better "Dust Tool".  Ok, ok, other things too, but that Dust Tool thing is some serous lameness.  They now call it Spot Removal... they mention it in the press release below.  OK, if you're a Leaf owner and you've been wondering how things are gong to go, what with Phase and Leaf getting into bed together, here's confirmation of about 6 months of gossip: C1 Pro now supports tethered shooting for Leaf Aptus/Aptus-II backs.
 

Now, without further ado, the aforementioned press release:

COPENHAGEN, February 22, 2010— Phase One today released Capture One 5.1, the powerful raw conversion, workflow and image editing application. The basic version now features both a simplified workspace and ‘pro’ image-editing options; Capture One 5.1 PRO comes with new tools for advanced noise reduction and image editing efficiency.  

Free to existing Capture One 5.x/5.x PRO owners, this value-packed service release extends raw image support to Nikon D3s, Canon 1D Mark IV, Sony A500, Sony A550 and a wide range of Leaf digital backs – this, in addition to its support for more than 170 different raw file formats (and growing).

“Capture One is built on the industry’s best raw conversion engine,” said Carsten H. Olsen, Phase One product manager for Capture One,” and our goal is to deliver the best quality image results with the most responsive application performance on the planet.”