Introducing Capture One Pro 8

Catalogs in Capture One Pro 8 help you organize your collection of images. Use different types of image collections and organizational tools to browse and search for thousands of images at unprecedented speed. Work with one or split your images across multiple Catalogs depending on your preferred workflow.

Share Catalogs with clients or co-workers in a multi-user environment for simple collaborative engagement. As a new thing, you can now export and import Catalogs or parts of Catalogs if you want to share a number of images and their settings with, for example, a retoucher or co-worker.

Capture One Pro 8 gives you the freedom of choice and the flexibility saves time for you and your clients.

Capture One Pro 8 introduces a new and unique Film Grain tool that lets you add grain directly to your images to mimic film stock and create a more ‘organic’ look, hide noise or simply for creative effect.

The advanced Film Grain algorithms are based on a physical model of how light interacts with silver halide on film. The tool produces authentic and high-resolution grain that is fully scalable and natural to the eye.

A new Catalog feature in Capture One Pro 8 is that you can now synchronize folders on a disk with a Catalog. You can update the content of a Catalog in a few clicks irrespectively of whether the changes have been made in Capture One or elsewhere.

Professional and enthusiast photographers alike all over the world depend on Capture One to deliver ultimate image quality and realize the potential in every shot.

With Capture One Pro 8, we have managed to raise the quality bar even further to give you better quality than ever before from your images, whether you are looking at images straight out of the box or working with features such as HDR, Moiré suppression, noise reduction, black and white conversion to mention a few.

Use Clarity to make your images stand out from the crowd. Clarity adds a pleasing mid-tone contrast change to your images and enhances detail on complex structures such as foliage and architectural details. All with just a simple slider adjustment.

Capture One Pro 8 offers four different methods of clarity control: ‘Classic’, ‘Neutral’ ‘Punch’ and the new ‘Natural’. Natural Clarity gives your images that extra punch while still looking natural and pleasing.

Capture One Pro 8 now comes with a full complement of local adjustments. Use the improved non-destructive local adjustments to fine-tune details such as exposure, sharpening and white balance in targeted areas of your images for unlimited creative control. Work directly on the raw file to ensure maximum quality and detail retention and save time by making all adjustments in Capture One Pro 8.

Reduce or eliminate perspective distortion with Capture One Pro 8’s unique Keystone Correction tool. Correct both vertical and horizontal keystone and perform the correction manually for complete control or let Capture One Pro 8 transform any warped captures into natural-looking images quickly and easily. The Keystone Correction tool is one of the most geometrically correct methods for correcting perspective distortion.

This tool is particularly useful for correcting the verticals of a building that has been captured at a low angle, making the parallel lines converge. The Keystone Correction tool will help you straighten those leaning buildings with no effort.

Live View can help you compose, focus and light your images optimally*. Capture One Pro 8 offers an integrated Live View workflow, where it is possible to capture images directly while in Live View mode, and to customize your Live View experience so you have the tools you need ready at hand.

The new multi-point focus metering feaure** in Live View assists you in fine-tuning optimal focus in a scene. Simply place your focus markers in the scene and adjust focus from the camera. Focus metering will give you clear visual feedback on when you have achieved optimal focus.

Capture One Pro 8 now allows you to completely control the content of your images and to remove unwanted objects or blemishes. The new clone and heal layers allow you to perform simple cloning or advanced healing, with full control over the size and shape of the affected areas.

A clone layer simply allows one part of an image to be copied to another part. A heal layer uses advanced algorithms to match certain image elements for a more pleasing result. The clone and heal layers allow you to draw the maximum power from your RAW files without the need for additional retouching applications.

Choose Capture One Pro 8 to capture your vision with minimum fuss and maximum effectiveness.

Simply connect your digital back or supported Canon, Nikon or Sony DSLR and capture directly into Capture One Pro 8. View and examine your images instantly in close up detail and adjust your camera settings remotely – even in Live View. This will help you make any adjustment choices and to attain a precise composition and accurate exposure that saves valuable post-production time

Capture One Pro 8 offers elaborate support for IPTC metadata that can streamline your workflow throughout post-production. The Metadata tool enables you to read, update, and modify valuable information at any point. The new hierarchical keywords support makes it even easier to find or apply collections of keywords, for an even more efficient metadata workflow.

This is the ideal camera for travelling (Travel Compact). As small and as light as possible, while offering full integration into the modular ALPA 12 camera platform. All current digital backs fit the ALPA 12 TC with the correct adapter. The more traditionally inclined can also make use of roll film backs up to a format of 6×9 cm – which allows truly ‘unplugged’ operation. All lenses with an ALPA adapter fit the ALPA 12 TC and all other ALPA 12 cameras. The ALPA lens adapter is available in different versions: ‘long barrel’, ‘short barrel 17 mm’ and ‘short barrel 34 mm’; adapters are also available with and without an integrated tilt/swing option. One alternative for a viewfinder is the iPhone, which was used for this purpose for the very first time by ALPA. Or the classic optical ALPA 120° viewfinder. Or a number of products from third-party manufacturers. The ALPA 12 TC is the right choice for the creative photographer who likes to travel light, who likes to have full manual control of his or her camera at all times and who is looking for a style and a quality which are practically impossible to find in largescale produced cameras.