on.raw.photography

Hello from NYC,

I need help please, I'm trying to do the following:

1) Bcome a beta tester and get a trial for CP 3.0?

2) If I can't get that, can someone tell me where I can buy a license? And test from there until new release comes?

3) I am camera scanning with a "high end" setup. I use a Fuji GFX sensor and rodenstock HR digaron 105 and cambo stand, 99 CRI etc. I am using Capture One. Any C1 users out there have "best practice" for achieving "linear scans" best suited for CP?? I know C1 has linear response curve but I'm not sure best appraoch for camera profile settings?

Will be scanning every week, hopefully daily. Looking for drum scan quality.

Any guidance here is appreciated, thanks!

Kevin Kornemann
Owner and operator at LightPrint.com

Hi Kevin,

welcome aboard - great to have you here! I’ve previously set you up by email, so you should already have both the plug-in and your personal key at hand.

Your capture setup sounds excellent — the HR Digaron 105 on a GFX sensor is as clean and consistent as it gets for camera scanning.
We have several Phase One camera users around, so I’m sure you’ll see some workflow input. Glad to have you on board and looking forward to seeing your results!

First of all, welcome, Kevin.

Sorry to butt in on point 3, regarding the software used.

First of all, Captur One doesn't support Color Perfect.
So I imagine you can get the DNG file and then upload it to MakeTiff.
So far, it's the same as with many other software programs, especially when you need to correct chromatic aberrations, noise, and optical quality.

But if you don't need these pre-processes, isn't it better to upload the RAW file directly to MakeTiff, or is it the same thing?

Personally, I’ve used Capture One Pro for many years for exactly one feature — the magnifying loupe that lets you get onto the raw data to assess focus and so forth. To me, it is purely a culling tool, a workflow solution to manage my shoots.

I suppose that’s also why MakeTiff eventually got its own subfolder feature — because I didn’t want the linear TIFFs to clutter my thumbnail view in Capture One for a given shoot. You can simply drag from Capture One into MakeTiff, have your linear TIFF created, process it with ColorPerfect, and be done with it.

ColorPerfect itself is a plug-in for Adobe Photoshop, Photoshop Elements, PhotoLine, and possibly Affinity Photo. From Capture One you will use MakeTiff — our auxiliary tool — to create TIFF files that can be brought into one of these hosts in an unadulterated fashion. That means, in the case of Photoshop, not via Camera Raw, but as a plainly opened TIFF file. Once opened, you can call ColorPerfect on it and take everything from there.

Once you’ve completed your work in ColorPerfect, you can of course continue in Capture One or any other editor for creative or tonal refinements. But do that on a copy of the file so that if at some point you wish to restore full color integrity after those external adjustments, ColorPerfect provides a dedicated Alpha feature that allows you to do exactly that — effectively re-imposing the correct color onto the tonal rendering you created elsewhere. For details, see how to restore natural colors to any external image adjustment.