ErikKaffehr
Well-known member
Hi,
Sometime the question arises to how to use Capture One with other MFD products. I would say that the message from Phase One is really, "Don't do that!".
Why? Because Phase One sees Capture One as a competitive advantage, so they have a policy not to support competing MFD systems. Some solutions may work today but may not work tomorrow.
Recent versions of Capture One are supposed to have better support for DNG, but it does not apply for DNGs from competing systems. Leica S may be an exception, I don't know. C1 definitively rejects DNGs converted from an older Hassy back I tested this morning. Even if C1 supports DNG it seems to be half hearted. DNG has support for DNG Colour Profiles, which strongly suggest a raw conversion workflow. Capture One does not support the conversion pipeline described in the DCP documentation. That means that DNG files are essentially useless regarding colour profiling and conversion.
So, what are the alternatives?
There are some alternatives like RawTherapee that may be quite a bit ahead commercial software. But, they are raw converters and not workflow solutions.
Hasselblad users can fall back to Phocus. Phocus is said to be a very well tuned solution for Hasselblad users. It is probably more of a raw converter than a workflow solution.
The 800 pound gorilla in the workflow market is Lightroom. In my view Lightroom has some solid disadvantage in demosaic, but it may be stated that this weakness is only obvious when pixel peeping. On the plus side Lightroom has a wide assortment of colour calibration stuff available. Adobe colour profiles are known to be a bit bland, though. Some vendors like Pentax embed a more tuned colour profile in their DNG files.
Anders Torger has developed a tool called DCamProf that has a more modern approach to colour profiling, but the version available now is intended for folks in command of the command line…
Anyway, my advice would be to ignore Capture One for non Team Phase One backs. C1 does not embrace competing MFD system by intent.
Best regards
Erik
Sometime the question arises to how to use Capture One with other MFD products. I would say that the message from Phase One is really, "Don't do that!".
Why? Because Phase One sees Capture One as a competitive advantage, so they have a policy not to support competing MFD systems. Some solutions may work today but may not work tomorrow.
Recent versions of Capture One are supposed to have better support for DNG, but it does not apply for DNGs from competing systems. Leica S may be an exception, I don't know. C1 definitively rejects DNGs converted from an older Hassy back I tested this morning. Even if C1 supports DNG it seems to be half hearted. DNG has support for DNG Colour Profiles, which strongly suggest a raw conversion workflow. Capture One does not support the conversion pipeline described in the DCP documentation. That means that DNG files are essentially useless regarding colour profiling and conversion.
So, what are the alternatives?
There are some alternatives like RawTherapee that may be quite a bit ahead commercial software. But, they are raw converters and not workflow solutions.
Hasselblad users can fall back to Phocus. Phocus is said to be a very well tuned solution for Hasselblad users. It is probably more of a raw converter than a workflow solution.
The 800 pound gorilla in the workflow market is Lightroom. In my view Lightroom has some solid disadvantage in demosaic, but it may be stated that this weakness is only obvious when pixel peeping. On the plus side Lightroom has a wide assortment of colour calibration stuff available. Adobe colour profiles are known to be a bit bland, though. Some vendors like Pentax embed a more tuned colour profile in their DNG files.
Anders Torger has developed a tool called DCamProf that has a more modern approach to colour profiling, but the version available now is intended for folks in command of the command line…
Anyway, my advice would be to ignore Capture One for non Team Phase One backs. C1 does not embrace competing MFD system by intent.
Best regards
Erik
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