After all the hype, and talk about supporting the photographic community, it appears that the folks at Capture One, do care about certain photographers, (portrait), but have no love for the landscape shooter.
There was a live stream video that was sponsored by C1 today. NOTE, they were very clear about being an independent company, i.e. separate from Phase One. That is BS, as if they were totally separate, their single biggest concern would be GENERATING MORE SUBSCRIPTIONS AND THUS REVENUE. To do this, they need to add support for the Hasselblad, which I guess will never happen. Hasselblad continues to step on themselves with Phocus Desktop and Capture One would be a perfect fit. The folks at Capture One made a point of stating just how dedicated they were to color science, so figuring out how to get HNCS into C1 should not be that damn hard.
As for tools, C1 announced a retouch tool, strictly aimed at portrait photography. Looks nice and uses AI, big surprise, but it is only going to assist studio shooters. In fact all that the video talked about today was tethered work, they must have mentioned tethered shooting at least 25 times. NOT, too many photographers in landscape settings are going to carry around a 4 pound MacBook Pro to tether, and personally I can’t see any advantage to tethering in the field.
Sadly, NO new features were announced for landscape shooter, especially new masking tools, like sky select. Capture One is woefully behind the curve on this. Their current AI brush can’t being to mask a sky. If you are working landscape, by far one of the first things you attempt to finish out is the variance between sky and foreground and without a good Sky Select masking, it takes forever. Also if you are working with exposure bracketing, the current Capture One masking tool does not copy well to other images.
Oh well, time to move on and wait for the next BIG ANNOUNCEMENT.
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