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Issue No. 12 February 2010
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S1 Printing- NEW Website launchedCelebrating with 25% Off Print Prices in February S1 has been printing extremely high quality fine art prints for exhibitions for the last 5 years. We have spent the last while revising our services, and have now launched the NEW Print section of our website! We will be offering two types of colour print services; Straight Prints and Exhibition Print Service. This will be available for a range of the best Fine Art papers, as well as Epson Premium Lustre for that C Print look. For Black & White prints we offer the highest quality you'll see anywhere, and use seven shades of carbon pigment ink to create a long tonal range, and a Swiss Fine Art RIP to lay the ink down. In B&W we only offer the Exhibition Print Service with Fine Art papers, including some stunning new Canson papers. We also offer Exhibition Consulting, Scanning, and Retouching. If you have a upcoming show and quality is important to you, call and we can show you what we do. Printed by artists, for artists. See the new S1 Print__________________________________________________________________________________________________________
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 "How To Look Good Naked Canada" TV Show at S1
The new TV series, "How to Look Good Naked Canada," hosted by Zain Meghji, is based on a British show by the same name. A team of fashion and lifestyle experts work with a woman each week and are on a
mission to restore body confidence in women everywhere. Six of the 13 episodes had the photoshoot portion shot at S1 studios! S1 supplied studios, capture equipment, lighting, grip and production support.
Watch How to Look Good Naked on the W Network, Tuesdays at 10pm!
Learn more here
Show schedule
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 Tech Testing: HyperMac External Laptop Battery
This month the S1 crew put the HyperMac external laptop battery to the test on a 17" unibody MacBook Pro. Will it really hold up to an entire day of image capture and editing on a shoot? How long does it last when you push it to the limit? If you need extra battery life on your laptop then this test will interest you.
See if the HyperMac held up under real world conditions and beyond. See test here.
Try it out for 50% off in February
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 Finn O'Hara's Rock Band Photos
FTP Creative Imaging's latest project
As the son of a former Kodak employee, Finn O'Hara is a photographer who pays attention to the details, from the environment of the portrait to the personalities within. That's why O'Hara called FTP Creative Imaging at S1 about a project he had shot - 16 images on the theme of a "1980's rock band".
Finn came down to meet Jeff Brown, and they discussed how to make the shots a bit more "moody" with a "gritty and edgy" feel. Finn really enjoyed then working with Jeff, both in person and on our online interactive lightbox and markup system. Jeff included features like cigarettes, smoke, nicotine stains on the rocker's hands and hand drawn tattoos on their bodies.
If you're in need of high quality and creative retouching services, check out our web at: FTP Creative Imaging at S1 or call Jeff Brown at 416.466.3024.
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 February Phase One Event:
presented by Walter Borchenko - 11 Feb 2010
Information session regarding the updates and 27 new features and enhancements of Capture One 5 PRO v5.1.
Need medium format wide angle or tilt shift?
Learn about
the German Hartblei Cam, soon in S1 rentals. Register Here__________________________________________________________________________________________________________
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 February Phase One Event:Capture One 5 PRO - Training Workshop with Walter Borchenko - 12 Feb 2010 All day training - this internationally acclaimed program is now updated for Capture One 5
PRO v5.1. Boost your quality and
productivity at the same time! Focus on capture over post-production
and enhance your creativity. More information on the S1 events page. Register Here__________________________________________________________________________________________________________ |
 New in Rentals: Bose SoundDock 10
Introducing the new Bose SoundDock 10 (see it in rentals).
This gets rave reviews and its got a huge sound compared to the ordinary Bose SoundDock. Rock away on your shoot with crystal clear sound!
Features:
* iPod and iPhone compatible (and it actually charges them),
* Auxiliary input
* Remote control
50% Off in Feburary__________________________________________________________________________________________________________ |
 Apple HiFi iPod Stereo - Runs on Batteries
If you are on location with no power, we also have an Apple HiFi Home Stereo for iPods
(see it in rentals) which can be run off of batteries. It has a big sound and can also be run off of AC power.
50% off in February!__________________________________________________________________________________________________________ |
Biggest Trend or Issue Facing Photographers Today?
Do you have something you want to say on this?
Peter Stranks, a fellow Photographer and now a Professor of Photography at Georgian College is teaching a course on this subject. Originally he asked us if we could ask a few clients this question, which we did with interesting results. So interesting we decided to run the same question in the newsletter, tabulate the results and then publish them in an upcoming newsletter for our readers, as well as Peter will use them as more background for his course.
If you are interested, could you please take a moment and email what you feel is the biggest trend or issue facing photographers today? It doesn't need to be an essay; if you would just introduce the topic and clarify in a sentence or two your thoughts on the subject. Then we will compile the replies and publish them.
Please send all replies to pstranks@georgianc.on.ca
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 New RAID 1 Drive Systems on Our Capture Carts
Our capture carts are now equipped with RAID 1 drive systems with hot swap-able SATA drives.
(A RAID 1 drive has 2 separate drives and the controller writes a copy to both drives).
How it works: at the end of your capture, simply pop out one of the trayless SATA drives from the RAID 1 Back up system.
If you are renting the capture cart then you take a SATA drive home in a anti static case, and pop it into your SATA tray-less Drive enclosure.
If we are supplying capture services to you, one SATA drive goes with you in an antistatic drive box and the other is removed and stored for 30 days at S1 as a remote backup.
  
To support this new drive strategy, we now sell SATA drive units, Anti Static drive cases, and single tray-less
SATA drive enclosures with USB II & eSATA connections.
This system is inexpensive and easy to use; buy the drive once and move your information around securely.
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iPhone Apps
Flashlight
Flashlight fills your screen with light when you find yourself in a dark spot!
Get Help!
 An app that helps you find local emergency services in one or two clicks.
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