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Capture One 16.8.5 release notes

Denis Huk
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Released on August 19, 2026, Capture One 16.8.5 keeps your crop orientation aligned with the camera orientation when you shoot tethered or copy and apply adjustments, adds panning with the middle mouse button, keeps your original color profile when you edit backgrounds with Photoroom, and remembers where you saved a downloaded Multi-User Session. It also adds file support for the OM-System OM-3 Astro and bug fixes.

Capture One mobile 4.0 is also out, closing more of the gap with desktop. Enhanced Denoise, Color Balance, Heal and Clone, and Keywords all come to mobile, and crop orientation follows the camera there too. Included with All in One and Studio. See Capture One mobile.

Sessions and Catalogs from versions earlier than 16.8.0 must be upgraded to open in 16.8.5. See Upgrading a Session, Upgrading a Catalog, and Restoring from backup.

 

Table of contents

 

Crop follows camera orientation

Your crop orientation now follows the camera orientation, both when you shoot tethered and when you copy and apply adjustments. Turn the camera between shots and your crop arrives the way you intended.

Tethered, a crop set as a Next Capture Adjustment follows the camera orientation. Rotations made in the Rotation and Flip Tool are respected: if the previous capture was rotated, the image and the crop rotate with it, and the next capture matches.

Some camera models don't record orientation in the metadata of non-RAW files (JPEG and HEIC). Without it, we can't reliably place a crop in the same position unless it touches at least two sides of the frame.

This improvement is also available in Capture One mobile.

For details, see The Crop Tool.

 

Pan with the middle mouse button

Hold down the middle mouse button to pan without switching away from your current cursor tool. The cursor shows the Pan hand in its grabbing state while your original tool stays active in the toolbar, and releasing the button returns you to it. No other key is needed, just hold and move.

Shift-panning pans all selected variants, and double-clicking toggles between 100% zoom and zoom to fit, as with the Pan Cursor Tool. Any existing command already using the middle mouse button takes priority.

For details, see Viewing a magnified image.

 

Downloaded Multi-User Sessions reopen in place

When you open a downloaded Multi-User Session as a collaborator, Capture One now remembers where you saved it, so it reopens without asking you to locate it again.

For details, see Multi-User Sessions (Beta).

 

Edit Background with Photoroom keeps your color profile

You can now keep your image's original color profile when you edit a background with Photoroom, instead of having it converted to sRGB automatically.

Right-click your images, select Edit Background with AI > Photoroom, then choose your color space in the Color space output settings.

For details, see Edit Background with Photoroom API (All in One and Studio in Sessions).

 

Camera support

  • OM-System OM-3 Astro: file support.

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

 

Bug fixes

General

  • Fixed an issue where different image orientations could lead to different negative conversions when pressing Convert Negative or Auto Levels.
  • Fixed an issue where different image rotation or flip settings could affect the white balance picker.
  • Fixed an issue with light falloff on the Hasselblad XCD 2.5/55V at f/2.5.

macOS

  • Fixed an issue where Smart Adjustments could give a strong magenta or green tint on some images.
  • Fixed an issue where deleting an image from disk would visually highlight a different image before confirming.
  • Fixed an issue where the buttons for the following actions did not work on Tangent devices using the Tangent Mapper software: Make a contact sheet, Collapse selected, Expand selected, Collapse all, Expand all, Open license information, Toggle Before / After, Open keyboard shortcut summary, and Export collection as catalog.
  • Fixed an issue where renaming a Session folder that was both the Capture Folder and a Favorite could corrupt the document.

 

System requirements

Minimum system requirements

  • macOS 14 to macOS 26 (tested on macOS 14.8.9, 15.7.9, and 26.6.1)
  • Windows 10 64-bit 22H2 with ESU or Windows 11 23H2 to Windows 11 26H1 (tested on Windows 10 64-bit 22H2 with ESU and Windows 11 26H1)
  • Intel Core i3 (1st generation), AMD Jaguar Family CPU, Apple Silicon M1 or A18 Pro, Qualcomm Snapdragon X Elite
  • 8 GB of RAM
  • 10 GB of free disk space
  • Calibrated monitor with 1280x800, 24-bit resolution
  • Internet is required for Capture One Live and other cloud services

Note: SSE4.2 CPU instruction set is required.

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: 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.

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