Capture One 16.7.4 release notes

• Base Characteristics (Film Negative Mode): Film Negative mode can be used for a fully manual workflow. Since well-exposed negatives often appear dense and low-contrast before correction, switching to Film Negative mode alone may initially result in a dark image until Levels are adjusted. 

• Exposure: Exposure adjustments occur before Levels in the Film Negative pipeline. For best results, aim to capture well-exposed scans and avoid adjusting Exposure after conversion. Use Brightness for overall lightness adjustments instead. 

• White Balance: White Balance should be sampled from the film base to neutralize the orange mask. Sampling within the image itself may produce unexpected color shifts. For additional correction, use the Neutralizer tool or Color Balance. 

• Crop: Cropping out film borders is essential. Auto Levels and Convert Negative operate on the visible cropped area, and unexposed film borders can heavily distort the conversion result. 

• Levels: Levels are central to negative conversion, stretching the histogram to establish proper contrast and tonal range. In Film Negative mode, Auto Levels adjusts Red, Green, and Blue channels independently. If strong color casts appear after conversion, reviewing individual RGB channels in Levels can help identify clipping or incorrect white point placement.

Supported file types

• Film Negative mode is optimized for RAW files. TIFF, JPEG, and other formats are supported, but results may vary due to embedded color management.

Limitations and unsupported tools

Some tools will have different outcomes in the Film Negative pipeline, and some are disabled.

• Subject, Background and People mask: may produce incorrect results. The first two are likely to find the whole film to be the subject, not the contents of it. People masks will not work.
• High Dynamic Range tool: disabled.
• Retouching tools: disabled.
• Dehaze: disabled.
• Match Look: you can use any image as a reference, including inverted negatives. When applying Match Look to Film Negative images, we recommend disabling Normalize (Exposure and White Balance) and Levels (Input), as these may interfere with negative conversion.

Workarounds

• Edits similar to the High Dynamic Range tool can be achieved through the use of Curves, in particular, the luma curve.   
• For Subject masking, Background masking, People masking and Retouching tools, when satisfied with your negative conversion process, you can export as a positive TIFF and re-import them in Capture One. The tools will work on those new images, as they will use the Photography pipeline. 

Pick Neutralize Point

A new Pick Neutralize Point Cursor Tool has been added to the Toolbar and is available in a Pick Cursor Tool drop-down menu of the Curves Tool when the RGB tab is selected (the combined RGB tab, not the individual channels).

The Pick Neutralize Point Cursor Tool allows you to click on any point in the image to neutralize its color. The selected point is adjusted so that the Red, Green, and Blue values match the L (luminance) value, effectively removing color cast from that area.

When applied, the tool automatically creates corresponding points on the individual Red, Green, and Blue curves to perform the correction. Because the adjustment directly modifies the individual channel curves, any existing edits to those curves must be reset before use. A warning will notify you if previous channel-specific curve adjustments are present.

For best results, use the Pick Neutralize Point Cursor Tool on areas of the image that are intended to be neutral in color. Avoid selecting extremely bright or extremely dark regions, as the tool performs more accurately away from the extremes of the histogram.

For details, see Curves tool overview.

Switch to Film Negative Processing Mode in AppleScript

The new film negative processing mode corresponds to the Film Negative Mode in the Base Characteristics Tool.

Example:

set processing mode to film negative

For details, see Capture One Workflow Automation with AppleScript.

User experience and performance improvements

Contact Sheets improvements

Contact Sheets have been enhanced to improve efficiency and output quality.

PDF exports now produce significantly smaller file sizes, making them easier to share and archive. Cover, header, and footer images are now persistent, so they no longer need to be reinserted. And export image quality has been improved to ensure clearer and more consistent results.

For details, see Contact Sheets.

Camera support

• Sigma BF: file support.
• OM-Systems (all supported models): support for 14-bit RAWs.

For details, see Camera Models and RAW Files Supported by Capture One.

Lens support

• Canon RF 14mm F1.4L VCM

For details, see Lens support in Capture One.

Bug fixes

macOS

• Fixed a bug where the recent document window was staying on top of other windows. 
• Fixed a bug where pressing the auto-focus button while a FUJIFILM GFX 100 II was connected triggered capture. 

Windows

• Fixed a bug where you were asked about layer copying behavior even if you were not trying to copy layers. 

System requirements

Minimum system requirements

• macOS 14 to macOS 26 (tested on macOS 14.8.4, 15.7.4 and 26.3)
• Windows 10 64-bit 22H2 with ESU or Windows 11 23H2 to Windows 11 25H2 (tested on Windows 10 64-bit 22H2 with ESU and Windows 11 25H2)
• Intel Core i3 (1st generation) or AMD Jaguar Family CPU / Qualcomm Snapdragon X Elite
• 8 GB of RAM
• 10 GB of free disk space
• Calibrated monitor with 1280×800, 24-bit resolution
• Internet is required for Capture One Live and other cloud services

Note: SSE4.2 CPU instruction set is required. Read more about this on Intel's website.

4K monitors

For optimal performance on 4K monitors, we recommend doubling the initial specifications due to the increased computational demands. Additionally, investing in a high-performance GPU with ample VRAM is highly recommended for these configurations to handle the intensive graphics processing.

For details see Capture One System Requirements and OS Support.

Download, install, and update Capture One

See Download, Install, and Update Capture One.

Recommendations and limitations

Note: The information provided here is subject to change and unintentional errors may occur. For any queries or further clarification, please contact support at https://support.captureone.com/

General guidelines

• Browsing folders containing unsupported image files may affect application performance.
• Previews from earlier versions of Capture One may be updated, which can affect the application performance the first time images are viewed in this version.
• Using a non-US laptop keyboard might require changing some of the standard keyboard shortcuts.
• Editing images in external applications other than Adobe Photoshop might result in unexpected behavior.
• Operating under virtualization software (e.g., Parallels, Hackintosh, etc.) may cause instability. These OS configurations are not recommended.
• Some cameras provide multishot functionality by way of multiple exposures or pixel shifting. In most cases, this functionality will not be available in Capture One. However, a single RAW file from the “stack” may be viewable and editable in Capture One (as if it was a shot in single Capture mode).
• Special or auxiliary modes (like pixel shift) are only supported if noted. If the information provided is incomplete or you need specific information pertaining to support in Capture One, kindly reach out to Capture One Support at captureone.com/support.

File support

• HEIC/HEIF support: Capture One supports HEIC/HEIF 8-bit files to the extent that the operating system supports the files. If you are on a Windows computer, you might need to download the two extensions “HEVC Video Extensions” and “HEIF Image Extensions” from Microsoft to enable support in Capture One.
• Capture One DNG colors: DNG files from camera models with native support in Capture One will per default have their native Capture One colors applied. DNG files from camera models that are not natively supported in Capture One will have generic DNG Standard colors applied. Adjustments and settings from other applications embedded in DNG files are not supported.
• Other file support: TIF/JPG/PSD/PNG files that are not in RGB color space cannot be adjusted within Capture One and will be read-only. Layered Tiff and PSD files can be supported for viewing purposes only. Reprocessing the image will result in a new flattened image.
• File size limitations: The smallest supported file for viewing has a minimum side of 16 pixels. The smallest supported file for editing has a minimum side of 512 pixels. The largest supported file is 715 megapixels or 65,000 pixels on the longest edge.

Known issues

• You can find a list of known bugs in a dedicated community forum topic titled Known Bugs. Note that this list may not be up to date on the day of a new Capture One version release.