by Ted Dillard, posted Feb 22, 2010 at 11:28AM
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.”
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Phase One, C1, Capture One
by Ted Dillard, posted May 21, 2009 at 6:55PM
Evaluating a RAW file processor is a slippery slope. As I'm fond of saying, the RAW file is not the "digital negative", it's more the digital "latent image", an unprocessed source of all the image information, available to the photographer to process to taste. The negative, after all, has already been processed, right? And then there's that matter of taste.
The slippery slope comes from that issue of taste... you really need to look at processing RAW files in the context of what you prefer, what you like, rather than what is "best", or "more accurate". Think about film here. If accuracy was the key feature of a film, why would we have so many different emulsions? Every film, and RAW processor, renders the photograph differently, so the key to choosing is to find the one that works best, for you.
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RAW processing, C1, Camera RAW, RAW
by Ted Dillard, posted May 21, 2009 at 6:39PM
Back in the day, PhaseOne built a medium-format digital back system that set the bar. Every manufacturer- digital back and DSLR, had some variant of the basic process- control the camera, control the workflow, control the colors, process and output the files. As the systems evolved, they all began to resemble one original, and powerful package- PhaseOne Capture.
When the leading DSLR manufacturers were offering software that was billed as professional, but resembled more of a consumer product, PhaseOne saw the need to step up where the OEMs were missing the boat. They introduced C1Pro- adapting their rock-solid software to the professional DSLR market. As they had with the MF DB market, they set the bar for the camera companies, and changed workflow for everyone.
It’s been a while since I’ve taken a look at C1Pro, but I had a big shoot with a Canon 5DM2 that I needed to tether to my laptop. I thought it was a great chance to revisit C1Pro. Ironically, I was using it for the same reason I looked into it when it first came out- rather than simply process the files, I needed to shoot to the workstation with a DSLR and move fast. Photoshop couldn’t do it, the manufacturer’s software was too flakey, I needed a MF DB solution: C1Pro was the natural, well the only, choice.
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RAW, Camera RAW, C1, RAW processing
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