Phase One News

From the Caputre One Blog:

The new Capture One 12 offers powerful upgrades to existing tools and introduces new features for efficient workflows. This post will quickly guide you through the best of the best.

Re-designed interface and menus

The design of Capture One 12 has been refined, providing a flatter and more modern interface with bigger font sizes. This will help photographers not only navigate more easily but also decrease fatigue from having too much to focus on.

Additionally, the Tool Tab icons have been re-designed for a better indication of what they represent. Remember, you can always customize the Tool Tabs and their content if needed!

Radial and Linear Gradient Masks

If you need other tools than a brush to create your masks, look no further! Radial and Linear Gradient Masks are here. They are parametric, meaning you can transform them after they are created making these tools dramatically more flexible than what you could previously do in Capture One.

Radial Gradients are the new thing, and they let you create circular masks with soft feathering. They can be transformed, rotated and masked either on the inside or the outside of the round shape. Linear Gradients now allow transforming, moving, rotating and even changing the fall-off asymmetrically.

Watch the tutorial below for in-depth information.

Yes, you read that right. Luminosity masking is now possible in Capture One, and it’s easier than you think.

The Luma Range tool can be applied on any mask, even gradients like the above, and will effectively restrict your mask to certain areas based on the luminosity in your image.

“Why do I need this?”, you might ask. Well, have you ever wanted to desaturate your shadows a bit? Or apply color grading with more control than the Color Balance Tool can provide? Or maybe add clarity to the clouds in your landscape image with a tricky horizon line? Luminosity masks make all of this a breeze. Watch the tutorial below to learn more.

It’s no secret that Capture One features a massive library of keyboard shortcuts. These shortcuts are customizable, letting you do most actions with a few clicks on the keyboard.

Capture One 12 makes this much easier. You can now search, not only for features and commands, but also for specific keys to see their function. Additionally, shortcuts for features that were previously inaccessible are added for an even larger library of shortcuts.

Plug-in platform

Capture One delivers an extensive suite of powerful tools to manage, edit and export images. Now the new Capture One plug-in ecosystem allows third-party developers to create plug-ins that can add even more features and capabilities to Capture One’s toolset. The first plug-ins will enable direct publishing, round-trip editing, and open-with workflows.

We are just getting started with plug-ins, much more will come! Find out what’s already available and send us your wishes here: www.phaseone.com/plugins

Intelligent copy/apply of adjustments

Capture One has a powerful feature to copy adjustments from one image to others. The functionality will auto-select any adjustments applied to an image, making them easy to apply to other images. Previous to Capture One 12, any composition change, for example, a crop, would also be automatically selected and carried over.

By default Capture One now exclude compositional changes from the auto-select functionality, making it easy to synchronize edits and color gradings between images with different crops and rotations.

Fujifilm Film Simulations

If you have ever shot with a Fujifilm X-series camera, you’re probably aware of the built-in simulations like Acros, Classic Chrome, Velvia etc. Extending on the collaboration with Fujifilm, these simulations are now available in Capture One 12 and will change the starting point of your editing to one of these simulations.

The simulations are available for Fujifilm camera models as Curves within the Base Characteristics Tool.

B&H carries Phase One Capture Pro 12.

From Phase One:

Update Provides New Resource Hub, Expanded Camera Support and Improved Workflow

COPENHAGEN, Apr. 19, 2018 – Phase One, the world’s leading manufacturer of high-end digital camera systems, today released Capture One 11.1, a feature release to the industry’s premier RAW conversion and image editing software. The release enhances the Capture One user experience, through a new support platform and functionality updates to ensure a faster, smoother workflow. Improved Styles and presets workflow, support for 11 new cameras, including Sony A7 Mk III and Fuji X-H1 and 10 new lenses, including Tamron lenses for both Nikon and Canon, and an all-new Resource Hub are among the latest updates.

“Capture One remains dedicated to the needs of ambitious photographers. These latest updates introduce an extension to camera and lens support, as well as an all-new Resource Hub. The Resource Hub is an in-app portal that allows users to easily access news, tutorials, updates and much more – all designed to inspire photographers and ensure the best workflow and user experience in Capture One,” said Jan Hyldebrandt-Larsen, VP Software Business at Phase One.

Improved Styles And Presets

A new workflow adds a much faster way to apply both Styles and Presets to a Layer on one or multiple images, offering a direct control of opacity, imperative to wedding and portrait photographers.

Furthermore, a new Spring Styles Pack is included, offering bright pastel color grading to images, particularly helpful to wedding, portrait and landscape photography.

Resource Hub

The Resource Hub has been introduced to offer quick access to free learning resources via a dynamic on-screen portal. Tutorials, news, webinars, blog posts and much more are offered in one convenient location to improve the user experience and learning curve with Capture One.

Normalization Tool

The normalization tool provides a reference point for exposure and white balance for batch adjustments, now allowing any color to be used when previously the only option was a neutral grey.

New Camera And Lens Support

The Capture One R&D team, alongside our color scientists, analyze hundreds of images from each camera to provide photographers access to the best out of box experience with natural profiles. Below outlines the new camera and lens additions that Capture One 11.1 supports. A full list of supported cameras can be found here: http://www.phaseone.com/supported-cameras

New camera support includes:

• Fujifilm X-H1
• Leica M262
• Leica CL
• Leica X-U
• Leica V-Lux Typ 114
• Leica TL2
• Olympus OM-D E-M10 Mk III
• Olympus E-PL9
• Panasonic G9
• Panasonic GH5S
• Sony A7 Mk III

New lens support includes:

• Canon lens:
• Canon EF 24-105mm f/4L IS II USM
• Leica lenses:
• Leica Elmarit M 2.8/90
• Leica Summicron M 2/90
• Sony lenses:
• Sony E 18-135mm f/3.5-5.6 OSS (SEL18135)
• Sony FE 24-105mm F4 G OSS (SEL24105G)
• Tamron lenses:
• Tamron SP 70-200mm F/2.8 Di VC USD G2 A025
• Tamron SP 35mm F/1.8 Di VC USD F012
• Tamron 28-300mm F/3.5-6.3 Di VC PZD A010
• Tamron SP 90mm F/2.8 Di MACRO 1:1 VC USD F017
• Tamron 16-300mm F/3.5-6.3 Di II VC PZD MACRO B016

CAPTURE PILOT 2.0

Capture Pilot 2.0 adds camera control support for Sony, allowing users to change camera settings of the tethered camera directly from your iOS device.

AVAILABILITY AND PRICING

Capture One 11.1 is available now for the Mac and Windows operating systems online at authorized partners worldwide.

B&H carries Phase One Capture One Pro 11.

From the Capture One Blog:

Today Phase One released Capture One Pro 10.1 with a bunch of marvelous new features.

The first major update brings new Styles interface to Capture One 10, “before/after” button, improved “delete” concept, read-only PSD support, token watermarking and vectorscope color wheels. Did I miss something? Oh, yes, Fuji compressed RAW support! Now, when you’re intrigued enough to read the whole article, let’s discuss new features of Capture One 10.1 in all the gory details.

New Styles Interface

Styles is an amazing tool to make processing faster and easier. You can save your favorite settings to styles and apply them to any image in one click or use artistic styles to find the best color correction solution for your image.

Previously there was only one issue with Styles – drop-down menu was blocking the image you were working with.

It was absolutely out of Capture One workspace logic and simply inconvenient.

In Capture One 10.1 Styles interface was completely rebuilt, and now all the styles and presets are located in one window. On top of the new tool, you’ll find applied styles list, below it – User & Built-in styles and presets. To navigate through your collections faster, you can expand/collapse each section. All the options like Import, Save, and Stack styles are now available in a standard tool’s menu; the Delete Style option could be found with a right-click on the style. What is also important, Styles tool is now resizeable and relocatable as any other tool in Capture One. If you have dozens of styles, Capture One 10.1 update delivers a huge improvement to your workflow. At the same time, you can continue using the old UI, just add Styles tool to the toolbar, and that would bring back the drop-down menu.

Another interesting feature of the new tool is Style Pack. It allows you to import a set of styles with a sub-folder structure. Simply create a zip-archive with folders with styles and change its extension to .costylepack; then import the pack as a standard style. If you’re looking for professional Capture One styles, take a look at our film styles at CaptureOneStyles.com. Create a “film” color in Capture One using all the power of RAW without any special plugins. There are 12 styles available for free!

“Before/After” button

Phase One always had a particular vision of how the “before/after” feature should work in Capture One. There are “new/clone variant” options, temporary reset for each tool and the good old “reset->undo” to compare the image before and after. With the update, developers added a new feature to Reset tool: hold the Alt key and click Reset icon to see all the adjustments temporarily switched off. In other words, now we have an actual “before/after” button in Capture One! It would be great to have a separate shortcut for this action as well, and I hope we will see it in the future releases.

New Delete Concept

For some reason “deleting” images from catalogs/sessions was one of the most confusing things in Capture One. Depending on different factors (file location, session/catalog mode, etc.) there were many variations of what could happen to your file after deleting it.

Capture One 10.1 update clarifies this issue; now you have three options of deleting the file:

1. Delete

The safest way to delete an image.
If you’re deleting an image from an album, that option would only remove the picture from the album. The same applies to other variants of the image, and only the selected variants would be removed.

If you’re deleting an image from “folders” (folder on HDD, catalog’s Folders section), “Delete” would move the file to Catalog/Session trash.

Always moves an image to trash.
If your image is located in an album, it would remove the file from the album and move it to Catalog/Session trash. All the image variants would be moved to trash as well.
For files in “folders” it works in the same way.

Always deletes an image from disk.
If your image is located in an album, it would remove the file from the album and delete it from disk, skipping the trash.
Files in “folders” would also be deleted from disk.
This option doesn’t affect image variants – only selected variants would be deleted.

Yes, it’s here – Capture One 10.1 finally supports Fuji Compressed RAW files.

X-trans pipeline re-design

What? Another great news for Fuji photographers? With point one release, Capture One 10 delivers support for LCC, Chromatic Aberration Analysis, and Purple Fringing tools for X-trans type sensors Fuji cameras. OpenCL is now also supported by X-trans files, that would significantly increase overall processing speed.

PSD support (read-only) Well, it cost me a lot of effort not to use a clickbait headline here. “Capture One now supports PSD!”, you know. Sounds awesome. Unfortunately, it’s a read-only PSD support. It’s not half bad, but it lets you to only view and store PSD files in Capture One.

You can edit PSD file in Capture One and re-process it into a new file, but it would flatter PSD layers, what makes it quite meaningless. Anyway, thumbs up, Phase One! Step by step and we’ll see Capture One layers to PSD conversion feature!

Token Watermarking

That’s a really curious idea to implement the token system into the watermarking feature. If you’re not familiar with tokens, here is a short concept: you can take any metadata from your RAW (date, aperture, ISO, keywords, etc.) and use it for naming and processing.

With Capture One 10.1 you can use tokens for watermarking as well. I don’t think that most of the photographers would find it useful, but for editorial purposes that could work pretty well. For example, if you have a group of authors, there is now no need to add specific watermarks for each one of them. Simply add token “Creator” and Capture One would take the name from Creator IPTC field.

Improved Watermark Quality

The quality of text watermarks has been improved in Capture One 10.1 and it’s particularly noticeable on web-preview files.

Vectorscope orientation color wheels

Besides all these features, Capture One 10.1 brings vectorscope orientation color wheels as an additional option to the standard layout. Color wheels layouts could be changed in Color Settings. If you’ve never seen this type of color wheels, you’re probably not working with video. If you do – then Capture One would become now a little bit more convenient and habitual for you. For example, if you have used Tangent panels in other applications and got used to its workflow, now you can use the same layout in Capture One.

Automation with Apple Script

Apple Script integration becomes better with each major Capture One update. Capture One 10.1 version also brings support to some new functions:

• Import
• Keywords
• Batch Rename/Batch Counter
• Current collection
• Next Capture Adjustments (configuration)
• Output counter
• Selections (improved syntax)
• Camera controls
• Stop live view
• Sync folder
• Adjustments clipboard (copy/paste)
• General logging/error message improvements

(By the way, we are looking for an experienced Capture One and Apple Script users for collaboration. Let us know via email captureoneblog@gmail.com.)

OpenCL: UX improvements

OpenCL is the main hardware acceleration technology used in Capture One and for supported graphic cards it gives a significant speed boost. At the same time, OpenCL may lead to some visual issues with specific graphic cards. Capture One 10.1 update makes it much easier to find out how OpenCL works with you machine. At the first run, you will see a message indicating Capture One is analyzing your hardware. You’ll find the result of the test in General> Hardware acceleration settings. In case of any issues there would be a link to a help page as well.

Memory management on Mac

There are some under the hood changes to reduce memory consumption in open Catalogs/Sessions on Mac.

New Cameras Support

• Sony A9
• Nikon D5600
• Nikon D3400
• Fujifilm X-T20
• Fujifilm X-A10
• Fujifilm XQ2
• Panasonic TZ85/ZS60/TZ80
• Panasonic TZ100/ZS100/TZ101
• Panasonic FZ2000/FZH1
• Panasonic GH5
• Pentax K-70
• Pentax KP

New Lenses Support

• Nikon AF-P DX NIKKOR 70-300mm f/4.5-6.3G ED VR
• Nikon 1 Nikkor VR 6.7-13 mm F/3.5-5.6
• Nikon AF-S NIKKOR 105mm f/1.4E ED
• Nikon AF-S NIKKOR 70–200mm f/2.8E FL ED VR
• Panasonic LUMIX G 25mm f/1.7 ASPH (H-H025)
• Panasonic LUMIX G Fisheye 8mm f/3.5 (H-F008)
• Panasonic LUMIX G MACRO 30mm f/2.8 ASPH. MEGA O.I.S. (H-HS030)
• Panasonic LUMIX G X Vario PZ 14-42mm f/3.5-5.6 ASPH Power O.I.S. (H-PS14042)
• Panasonic LUMIX G X Vario PZ 45-175mm f/4.0-5.6 ASPH (H-PS45175)
• Panasonic Leica DG Macro-Elmarit 45mm f/2.8 ASPH MEGA O.I.S. (H-ES045)
• Panasonic Lumix G X Vario 35-100mm F2.8
• Sigma 18-300mm F3.5-6.3 DC MACRO OS HSM | C #886
• Sigma 24mm F1.4 DG HSM | A #401
• Sigma 50-100mm F1.8 DC HSM | Art #693
• Sigma 85mm F1.4 DG HSM | A #321
• Sony DT 55-200mm F4-5.6 (SAL55200)
• Sony DT 55-200mm F4-5.6 SAM (SAL55200-2)
• Sony FE 100mm F2.8 STF GM OSS (SEL100STFGM)
• Sony FE 85mm F1.8 (SEL85F18)
• Sony Vario-Tessar T* FE 16–35 mm F4 ZA OSS (SEL1635Z)
• Zeiss Distagon T FE 35 mm F1.4 ZA (SEL35F14Z)
• Tamron SP 15-30mm F/2.8 Di VC USD
• Tamron SP 150-600mm F/5-6.3 Di VC USD
• Tamron SP 150-600mm F/5-6.3 Di VC USD G2
• Voigtländer 10mm/F5.6 Hyper Wide Heliar
• Voigtländer 15mm/F4.5 Super Wide Heliar III
• Zeiss Batis 2.8/135
• Zeiss Loxia 2.4/85
• Zeiss Milvus 2.8/15
• Zeiss Milvus 2.8/18
• Zeiss Milvus 2/135
• Zeiss Otus 1.4/28

What’s next?

With Capture One 10.1 release we can clearly see how subscription based model changed software development. New features are delivered by degrees now, that’s why I’ve written in Capture One 10 review “…we’ll see more new features in Capture One 10.1, 10.2 and 10.3 releases”. No, Phase One, I didn’t violate your NDA, I’m just a prophet.

And my next prediction is… more great features in the 10.2! That’s why if you didn’t switch to Capture One 10 yet, now is the time. You’ll receive a mass of useful tools today and a new batch of them in the next free updates.

B&H carries Phase One Capture One 10.

From Phase One:

New Camera Support

• Fujifilm X100F Support
• Olympus E-PL6 Support
• Fujifilm X-A3 Support
• Panasonic LX9/LX10/LX15
• Panasonic G8/G80/G81/G85
• Canon M5 Support
• Nikon 1 J5 Support

New Lenses Support

• Sony DT 18–250mm F3.5–6.3
• Sony 70-400mm F4-5.6 G SSM
• Panasonic LUMIX G Leica DG Summilux 15mm f/1.7 ASPH
• Panasonic LUMIX G LEICA DG VARIO-ELMAR 100-400mm F4.0-6.3 ASPH
• Panasonic LUMIX G VARIO 7-14mm F4 ASPH
• Tamron SP 24-70mm F/2.8 Di VC USD (EF Canon)

Bug fixes: Mac

• Changing Lens Correction Shift makes Levels, Histogram and Curve go blank
• OpenCL Errors with Iris Graphics 540 – 2016 Macbook Pro
• Using Find and Replace Batch Rename renders existing Local Adjustments inoperable
• Fixed – Error Code 19 during batch processing (“could not load raw data”)

Bug fixes: Win

• Changing Lens Correction Shift makes Levels, Histogram and Curve go blank
• Skin Tone white balance picker not working

B&H carries Phase One Capture One 10.

From Phase One:

Unprecedented Power, Precision and Quality

COPENHAGEN, June 23, 2016 – Phase One, creator of the world’s finest open-platform high-end camera systems and professional imaging software, today released Capture One Pro 9.2. Known for its outstanding tethered capture capability, high-quality raw conversion, and precision image editing tools, Capture One Pro is already considered by many to be the only image capture application for the serious professional photographer. The release of version 9.2 aims at a better culling workflow from selections and metadata sources to accelerate editing workflow to new levels.

New camera support includes:

• Pentax K-1
• Nikon D500
• Canon EOS M10
• Canon G5x
• Canon G7x MkII
• Canon G9x

• Access assets quickly and precisely: Select from file list, select by variant position and create album from selection form a large group of improvements under targeted selections;
• New rate and cull workflow using “Select Set”: Select a number of images for viewer preview, then advance through the browser by the same number. Navigating within the selection to rate and cull makes editing and comparing fast and efficient;
• Capture One 9.2’s new color management module for Tiffs gives users more accurate preview returned from retouching/round trip applications – making Tiff handling in Capture One better than ever before;
• Phase One XF camera users can turbocharge focus stacking workflow with a multi-image round trip to the Helicon Focus application. Shoot, organize, group, process and stack -- all in a few clicks;
• New Shortcut Engine: More functions can be shortcut than ever before! All cursors can now be shortcut, users can navigate the library collections (even when hidden) and shortcut support for the new 9.2 selection methods all help to make the workflow sing.

For more details on all the new and improved features in Capture One Pro 9.2, including new cameras and lenses supported, please go to: www.phaseone.com/ninetwo

Availability and Pricing

Capture One Pro 9 is available now for the Mac and Windows operating systems from Phase One authorized partners worldwide.

B&H carries Phase One Capture One Pro.

From Phase One:

Improves Stability, Adds Support for New Cameras

COPENHAGEN, January 14, 2013 — Phase One has released Capture One Pro 7.0.2 for immediate download. This service release has focused on solving bugs reported by customers, strengthening overall stability, and adding support for new models of Canon, Olympus, Fujifilm and Sony cameras, and includes new tethered support for Canon EOS 6D and Canon EOS M cameras.

New preliminary camera support includes:

• Fujifilm X-Pro1
• Fujifilm XE-1
• Fujifilm XF1
• Canon EOS 6D
• Canon EOS M
• Sony SLT-A57
• Sony NEX-5R
• Olympus XZ-2 iHS
• Canon EOS-1D X and EOS 5D Mark III (sRAW and mRAW)

Numerous bug fixes have improved stability, including support for Canon tethering on Apple OS X 10.8, and improved support for pen tablets on Windows 8.

Other changes in Capture One Pro 7.0.2 include aligning the use of image counts in the library tool: no counts for smart albums on Mac and no image counts shown for Groups and Projects on Windows.

Capture One Pro 7 is a raw converter and workflow software which enables photographers to reduce the time and effort required to deliver stunning ready-to-use images with excellent color and detail. Capture One Pro 7.0.2 is available as a free download for Capture One Pro 7 customers.

B&H carries Capture One Pro products.

From Phase One:

New Processing Engine Drives an Image Quality Revolution

COPENHAGEN, October 25, 2012 — Phase One, the world’s leader in open-platform, high-end camera systems and solutions, today released Capture One Pro 7. Capture One Pro is the advanced digital imaging software for professional photographers who require superior image quality, maximum workflow efficiency and the flexibility to work the way they want to work.

Capture One Pro 7 is a major release built on a new processing engine with new and advanced professional tools that dramatically boost out-of-the-box image quality, offering exquisite detail and color rendition. Powerful digital asset management functionality, derived from years of technical expertise built into the Media Pro catalog system, has been added to offer more options to select, search and organize image files. And the world’s most advanced tethering shooting solution now includes Live View support for selected DSLRs.

“Phase One engineers have unique advantages in developing image processing software: their high-end digital hardware expertise, their enduring passion for perfection and their collaboration with some of the world’s best photographers,” said Linda K. Poulsen, Software Marketing Director, Phase One.

“Image quality is always our prime directive,” said Niels V. Knudsen, Vice President of Innovation and Application Development, Phase One’s popular ‘Image Quality Professor.’ “We are proud to introduce what we believe is the world’s best professional imaging software, and we wish to thank photographers around the globe for inspiring us to meet their needs for high quality images with a natural look and feel.”

A Revolution in Image Quality
Advancements in the Capture One raw processing engine yield vastly more accurate rendition of details and colors. While medium format camera systems with Capture One Pro achieve the highest-level results, DSLR users will see stellar performance from their cameras too. A highly advanced noise reduction algorithm has been added that gives stunning performance at even high ISO levels. Precision adjustment tools offer greatly enhanced dynamic range for astonishing details in both shadows and highlights, reveal fine details and structure, reduce the effect of haze and give images a more threedimensional look and add local contrast and saturation to images for extra punch. The new OpenCL implementation yields faster browsing and higher-speed image processing.

Powerful Digital Asset Management
Next to the familiar and proven sessions approach, Capture One Pro users can now organize their image files via comprehensive and flexible catalogs. Incorporating powerful digital asset management features found in Media Pro, they can work with multiple catalogs at the same time; share catalogs with other users; switch between different catalogs without relaunching; easily tag images for later search and retrieval; and browse and adjust images when the original images files are offline.

Workflow AdvancesFrom capture to final output, Capture One Pro 7 has been optimized for efficiency. Capture One Pro’s support for instant tethered shooting is renowned for its ease (just plug in and shoot) with both medium format and high-end DSLR cameras. Now Live View is available for selected DSLRs aiding composition and critical focus. Capture One Pro 7 has a selection of default lens profiles that can be chosen to automatically correct any unwanted optical issues. Capture One Pro 7 speeds delivery of final image files to clients and colleagues in whatever format, size, or resolution they need.

For a complete list of new and advanced features, please go to http://www.phaseone.com/en/Image-Software.aspx

Pricing and Availability
Phase One Capture One Pro 7 is available now for Mac OS X and Windows online at www.phaseone.com/store and from Phase One Partners. The price is 299 USD and 229 EUR 229. Owners of Capture One Pro 3/4/5/6 may upgrade for 99 USD and 69 EUR. Owners of Capture One Express may upgrade to Capture One Pro 7 for 249 USD and 199 EUR. For customers who have purchased Capture One Pro 6 since September 26, 2012, Phase One is offering a grace period, exempting them from the upgrade fee.

B&H carries Capture One Phase One products.

Phase One Capture-One ProVersion 6.4.3 is now available for download using your software's update function. The new release features tether support for the Canon EOS-1D X, Canon EOS 5D Mark III, Nikon D400 and Nikon D800/D800E.

Get your Phase One Capture-One Pro DSLR Raw Workflow Image Editing Software at Adorama

(thanks Steve).

From Phase One:

Phase One Releases Media Pro 1.2

World’s best digital visual assets manager just got better

COPENHAGEN, January 10, 2012 — Phase One today released Media Pro 1.2. Media Pro is a powerful photography assistant for finding, organizing, and sharing digital images and videos no matter where the files are stored. Media Pro supports very large photo libraries, with support for photo and video files from more than 100 different cameras.

New in this release you’ll find:

• Better support for exporting annotations/metadata to XMP sidecars;
• Now, catalog sets, custom fields and hierarchical keywords may be exported to XMP sidecars so they will always be included when extracting metadata;
• Two new general preferences increase the flexibility of importing annotations/metadata;
• Now people and event annotations/metadata also map according to the IPTC-Extended definition.
• More camera support: supports images from additional cameras when using the Phase One renderer.
• Bugfixes on Mac: fixed an issue with Import Items > From Camera for German language.
• Bugfixes on Windows: Fixed an issue with the crash reporter not always appearing correctly.

Availability and Pricing

Media Pro is available via download for 199 USD and 139 EUR through Phase One’s Online Store and from top pro photography dealers worldwide. You can learn more about the new release at: http://www.phaseone.com/media-pro

Media Pro 1.2 is available as a free upgrade to existing Media Pro customers.

About Phase One

Phase One is the world’s leader in open-platform based medium format camera systems and solutions. Phase One medium format cameras, digital backs and lenses are designed to deliver superior quality image capture and investment value. Phase One’s Capture One and Media Pro software helps streamline capture and post-production processes for both medium format and DSLR cameras. Phase One products are known for their quality, flexibility and speed enabling pro photographers shooting in a wide range of formats to achieve their creative visions without compromise.

For more information, please visit Phase One at http://www.phaseone.com. Follow Phase One on Twitter at http://www.twitter.com/PhaseOneWW and on Facebook at: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Phase-One/184811514906561

Phase One is an employee-owned company based in Copenhagen with offices in New York, London, Tokyo, Cologne and Shanghai.

Phase One and Capture One are registered trademarks of Phase One A/S. All other brand or product names are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective holders.

Phase One has released Capture One 6.3.2.

The Capture One 6.3.2 Release Notes detail the changes:

Highlights, version 6.3.2

This is a service release providing additional camera support and improving quality.

Enhancements

The following quality enhancements are provided:

• Improved colors and noise defaults for Samsung NX11.

Bugfixes

The following issues are addressed:

• Fixed an issue with cursor tools not working properly on Mac OS 10.7.2.

• Fixed an issue causing MobileBackups to show up as a volume in the library tool.

• Other bug fixes.

Camera Support

The following cameras have been added:

• Samsung NX200.

• Pentax Q.

• Accepts both PEF and DNG format for all Pentax models supported.

• Olympus Pen E-PM1.

Phase One Press Release:

Improves performance of leading professional photographer’s digital visual assets manager

COPENHAGEN, October 25, 2011 — Phase One, the photographic image-quality leader today released Media Pro 1.1. Media Pro is a professional digital visual assets manager that supports rapid browsing, cataloging, searching, annotating, retrieval and sharing no matter where digital files are stored (such as shared folders, CDs, hard drives, DVDs or on other media). This new release features German and French localization and significant performance improvements.

Media Pro supports photo and video files from more than 100 different cameras and is well suited to managing large photo libraries. Images within Media Pro catalogs (more than 128,000 files may be saved per catalog) may be non-destructively edited with Capture One and with other image editing applications. Assets may also be converted into other file formats as required, and all catalogs may be archived, backed up, published via slide shows, web galleries, and distributed via email, contact sheets, prints, and other custom options.

What’s new in Media Pro 1.1

-- Faster importing and media rendering

Now Media Pro customers can choose between Capture One rendering and Apple/WIC rendering according to image quality requirements, rendering of Capture One adjustments and speed. For new customers, the factory default is set to Apple/WIC rendering. For best image quality and rendering of Capture One adjustments, the Capture One renderer is recommended.

-- Improved Capture One Integration with Media Pro

Used together, Phase One’s Capture One Pro for image editing and Media Pro for photo management, these programs comprise an optimal photography software toolset for photographers who need to manage very large, high quality image files and collections in a fast and efficient workflow.

Now Media Pro keeps Capture One adjustments when renaming and transferring files to other folders in Media Pro; and users can drop files onto the Media Pro application icon to have those rebuilt, selected and revealed in the front catalog;

-- Added support for the following camera RAW formats when using the Capture One renderer:

Olympus E-P3 and E-PL3
Sony NEX-7, NEX-5N, SLT-A77, SLT-A65 (all preliminary)
Sony DSLR-A580, NEX-C3
Panasonic DMC-G3, DMC-F3

Bugfixes on Mac

• Fixed a bug that could cause rebuilding or the importer to hang.

• Fixed some issues where missing items in the catalog could halt the thumbnail and

• preview generation.

• Fixed an issue preventing some RAW image formats from being imported.

• Fixed an issue causing panning in Media View to break after using the Light Table.

• Fixed a saving issue related to large catalogs.

• Fixed a launching issue related to QuickLook.

• Fixed some UI glitches with the Recent Catalogs menu, Custom Fields and the Organize panel.

• Made it possible to delete files on volumes with no trash e.g. servers.

• Made rebuilding items preserve existing orientation.

• CSS files are now accepted in catalogs.

• Fixed a number of issues relating to Notes files (.ivn)

Bugfixes on Windows

• Fixed an issue causing a license server connection error to appear whenever launching without being connected to the internet.

• Fixed an issue causing panning in Media View to break after using the Light Table. Fixed a saving issue related to large catalogs.

• Fixed some color management issues.

• Added warning if about to overwrite existing Web Contact Sheet.

• Fixed an issue where make and model metadata would be lost for converted images.

• Fixed broken preset saving functionality for Convert Image, Sound and Movie Files.

• Made the cursor automatically move to the next field when entering license keys.

• Fixed an issue that would make Custom Fields clear unintentionally.

• Made it possible to save new Media Pro catalog in the same location as an existing Expression Media 2 catalog.

• Made rebuilding items preserve existing orientation. In addition a number of minor bugs have been fixed on Mac and Windows

Availability and Pricing

Media Pro is available now via download for 199 USD and 139 EUR through Phase One’s Online Store and through leading professional photography dealers worldwide.

Media Pro 1.1 is available as a free upgrade to existing Media Pro customers.

B&H carries Media Pro.

Press release:

Phase One Releases Media Pro 1.0.1

COPENHAGEN, July 7, 2011 — Phase One today released Media Pro 1.0.1, a service release, and the first update since Media Pro was introduced less than two months ago.

Media Pro is a professional photo manager for finding, organizing, and sharing images and videos wherever those files are stored. Media Pro supports photo and video files from more than 100 different cameras and is built to manage large photo libraries.

This service release includes several fixes and improvements, such as the following:

Fixed stability issues including crash when working with large JPEGs in Slideshow and on the Light Table;

Fixed Renderings bugs, including no full resolution TIFFs on Mac and missing PDF thumbnails on Windows XP;

Fixed a issue where a catalog upgraded from Expression Media 2 could not be saved;

Fixed a bug causing XMP sidecars not to be moved with the media files to which they belong;

Fixed importer issues e.g. crash on Mac when XMP sidecars were present and problem when importing JPEGs on Window XP 32 bits;

Fixed a bug on Windows where sorting would not work;

Fixed readability issues caused by new UI color scheme;

Fixed a bug preventing XML data files to be created on Windows;

Fixed some EIP color management/rendering issues on Mac;

License issue on Windows appearing when Internet connection was lost.

Availability and Pricing

Media Pro 1.0.1 is free to existing Phase One Media Pro customers. For more information including product features, upgrade options and tutorials, please see: http://www.phaseone.com/en/Software/Media-Pro/Whats-new.aspx

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Here is the Phase One announcement:

Today we announce the availability of Camera Control - a new Capture Pilot option that lets photographers operate their cameras remotely via their iPhone, iPad or iPod Touch. This remote camera control frees photographers to shoot under scenarios that previously would have been difficult or impossible. Camera Control is the newest feature of Capture Pilot.

COPENHAGEN, June 30, 2011

Phase One, the world’s leader in open-platform based professional medium format camera systems and solutions, today announced the availability of Camera Control -- a new Capture Pilot option that lets photographers operate their cameras remotely via their iPhone, iPad or iPod Touch. This remote camera control frees photographers to shoot under scenarios that previously would have been difficult or impossible.

Camera Control is the newest feature of Capture PilotTM which allows photographers to use their iPad, iPhone and iPod Touch to wirelessly view, zoom and pan high resolution DSLR and medium format RAW, JPEG and TIFF images while they are shooting. The application’s rating and tagging features enable clients and colleagues in the studio or on remote locations to participate in the shoot and provide instant feedback.

Camera Control

Camera Control offers photographers an elegant, virtual camera display on their iOS device to remotely fire the camera and control the camera’s most important capture parameters, including ISO sensitivity, exposure mode, shutter speed, aperture, exposure compensation and others.

Camera control supports a wide range of pro and semi-pro Canon and Nikon DSLRs, and Phase One, Leaf and Mamiya medium format camera systems.

Availability and Pricing

Camera Control is available now as an in-app purchase for USD14.99 / EURO11.99. Capture Pilot™ is a free app available from the Apple store that works with Capture One Pro. More information is available here: http://www.phaseone.com/en/software/capture-pilot

Capture Pilot with Camera Control requires version 6.2.1 or later of Capture One Pro, the raw conversion and image editing software that supports a wide range of pro and semi-pro camera models. Capture One comprises a full digital workflow to produce beautifully detailed and richly rendered images. For information about Capture One Pro, please see: http://www.phaseone.com/en/Software/Capture-One-Pro-6/

Phase One has released Media Pro (press release).

"Originally created by iView Multimedia, this professional digital asset management software has recently been known as Microsoft Expression Media. In its first release since Phase One’s acquisition of the product from Microsoft last year, it has been re-christened Media Pro."