For that usage it is recommended that you swap the stock ball out with
an 8 ball, better heft and precision to get the message across.
D(knobs and balls??? what happened to hot dogs and turducken?)D
On 12/3/2011 9:11 AM, Rupert Watson wrote:
>
> And of course you can slip the Expert mouse's ball out and sling it at
> annoying production staff as necessary whereas the MC Color doesn't
> quite have the heft; right?
>
> Rupert Watson
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com <mailto:Avid-L2%40yahoogroups.com>
> [mailto:Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com <mailto:Avid-L2%40yahoogroups.com>] On
> Behalf
> Of Steve Hullfish
> Sent: 03 December 2011 16:08
> To: Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com <mailto:Avid-L2%40yahoogroups.com>
> Subject: Re: [Avid-L2] Artist/MC Color Panel Knob sensitivity etc...?
>
> I run my Symphony - and even "freelance" Symphonies - from a Kensington
> Expert Mouse that I carry with me. Love it. Though on another system
> that is more Mac/FCP, I use a Logitech Marble which feels just right.
>
> The MC Color does have a similar physical feel to the Expert Mouse balls
> (that just sounds SO wrong...), smooth with a nice weight and just the
> right drag to it, but the MC Color's balls are much smaller and I DO
> like the feel of a larger ball, like the Expert Mouse, compared to the
> smaller balls of the Logitech and MC Color.
>
> The Expert Mouse ball is more like a billiard ball in size. The MC Color
> is almost golfball sized.
>
> Steve Hullfish
> contributor: www.provideocoalition.com
> author: "The Art and Technique of Digital Color Correction"
>
> On Dec 3, 2011, at 2:54 AM, johnrobmoore wrote:
>
> > Steve IIRC you have used and are a fan of the Kennsington expert
> mouse. I'd assume you've used that with your symphony for hue offsets.
> How does that feel to you? It has been mentioned in this thread that the
> feel of the trackballs on the Artist Color are very similar to the
> expert mouse. I've been using the expert mouse trackball for hue offsets
> for a couple of years and I find it takes a nudge to get the hue offsets
> to respond with a jump and then it's reasonably responsive but a little
> chunky but better than I find using my wacom table for hue offsets. I've
> not spent any quality time on resolve of color so I've not been spoiled
> by their feel. Perhaps ignorance is bliss but I'd really like to get to
> the bottom of the laggy feel. It sounds a lot like the reasons I'd heard
> years ago as to why the supposed colorist style panel was never marketed
> on the symphony.
>
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