Just how good is the on-board XRite-powered printer calibration and profiling on the HP Z series printers?  Take a look...  the answer?  Remarkably good. 

Special shoutout to the folks at Parrot Digigraphic for letting us play with their stuff!

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.  
 

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:
 

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.”