Jean-Francois OKane Photographe et Conférencier Montréal » tool

Tous les plug-in NIK en Francais

jfokane — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 00:11:02 +0000

Les gens de chex NIK, ceux qui font SIlver Efex le meilleur convertisseur noir et blanc qui existe viennent de me confirmer au PMA à Anaheim, Califirnie, que tous leurs plug-ins ont maintenant une interface et le fichier d’aide en Francais. Téléchargez un demo gratuit www.NikSoftwares.com. 15% rabais code: JFOKane

Palm Spring, California. Infrared modified, Olympus e-510

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Mystuff: My Hoodman stuff

TheStudioCoach — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 16:33:13 +0000

I’ve found the accessories I was looking for after many years, in a tradeshow under a strange booth, you’ve guesses it: made like a hood. It’s the helmet of 3 wise brothers who decided to supply only the best accessories for digital photographer and videographer. Of course they remembered me I had hovered around the booth for the complete trade show, like a bee around the ripest sunflower. So I asked what is this yellow CF card about…

The Hoodman RAW CF card

“The fastest and most reliable card ever” they said. I had heard that soooo many times, “why don’t you try it” they offered. I got 2 on that day. Wow, just taking the card in the hand tells you there is something different, it weight close to double the weight of standard cards… And for speed of writing, I can shoot up tp 18 Raw/Full jpg with my Olympus E-3 before we hit a delay, when I only reach 14 with my 133X card and 11 on the Ultra card…. Numbers say it all. And there is also the Firewire/UDMA reader that transfers to your computer with lightning speed…

The other do-not-leave-home-without-it tool is the “Loupe”. This Hoodman loupe allows you to shade your view of the viewfinder, allowing a clear view even in bright sunlight. It hangs in your neck with a very comfortable rubber lanyard. When you want to look at your image just push the disply button and put your pyramid shaped loupe on the screen and you see the image without the interference of the light. The loupe is equiped with a focusable eyepiece and covers the full screen. On a recent workshop I’ve lended my loupe to some students that could not even change the modes on their cameras due to ambient light..

New StudioCoach product

TheStudioCoach — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 01:24:00 +0000

The videographers dream for white balances, the WhiteBeam now enters the market! It is an 8″ disk that is placed in front of the video camera lens in order to do the white balance in 5 seconds flat. This ensures continuity of light and easy matching of sequences. For more information…

Now available on line, the PhotoMasterTarge t measures only 10″x15″ and is ideal for the photographer on the go. Just like the ColorBalanceCoach, it allows you to control contrast and exposure.

The Studio Coach patents the Color Balance Coach target

TheStudioCoach — Mon, 18 Sep 2006 23:51:00 +0000

The ColorBalanceCoach disc looks like a photographic reflector and like it, it can be collapsed to use only a fraction of the space, this allowed us to include on the disc the largest grey card on the market, that can still fit in your photo bag. The ColorBalanceCoach is made of 4 distict regions called patches. The largest is the grey patch, made of chromaticaly neutral synthetic material it will remain stable in density and color for years to come. The black patch reflects only about 3% of the light it receives, the white reflective patch will reflect more than 92% of the light and the dull translucent patch will reflect 80% of the light. The transluscent patch is made of 100% colorless white fabric that will allow a shoot through white balancing area as well as a reflected low-light reflected white balance patch. NOW AVAILABLE IN 3 SIZES.

Jean-Francois O’Kane
TheStudioCoach