Every once in a while, I come across a photographer who's simple joy in takiing pictures comes through in the work.  Paris Visone, once a student of mine from AIB is like that, she sports a camera grafted to her hand... photography is so much a part of her life and identity, her photography reflects a pure, honest reality that you seldom feel.   Alex Morrow is another.  Alex is a student, her comments are below, but she started her "365 Photos" project- self-assigning a photo a day, because she loves photography and loves the process of taking photographs, and wanted to build it into her daily life.  
 

Just got this note from Phase One:

We are pleased to share with you the release of Capture One 5.1.1 on Thursday, March 25th 2010.
 

The release contains the following enhancements for Leaf backs:

OK kids- here's the camera support matrix, Adobe Camera RAW (Photoshop and Lightroom) vs. Apple Aperture.   

'nuff said.

(Complete list after the jump, natch.)

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.