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How to reconnect a single file and importing scanned negative files

John Clark

In the incredibly flawed and tedious process of getting a series of scanned monochrome negatives into Capture One, I forgot to convert one image from greyscale to RGB, tripling the file size and forcing C1 to a crawl. Now I find that I cannot edit this one image, nor can I see any way to reconnect the converted file to the version imported into C1.

Yes, I can do what I occasionally do and trash all the images and re-import but then I lose the work I have already done on these other images. Alternatively I can re-import just that one image - sit there for 15 minutes while C1 toils through the folder eliminating duplicates until it finds the file I want - and any deleted versions but then I will have the tedious business of having two separate import sessions which makes it harder to sort through a series of images from one roll of film.

Is there a technical reason why C1 won't import greyscale? My hard drives are clogged with files which have been up-bloated just so I can import into C1 and only C1 since every other piece of software that I use will import and grade greyscale. The increase in size is from 165MB to 465MB. Huge. Does the mystery C1 heritage work with greyscale?

The only reason I use C1 is because I think the catalogue structure is better than having individual sidecar files littered all over the place. In every other respect, there are programs which do it faster, as well and for less money than C1.

JC

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  • Ian Wilson
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    I don't know whether Capture One not handling greyscale is because of a technical limitation or not. 

    However, there is surely an easier way to import the image again in RGB format, without Capture One toiling through all the files eliminating duplicates. Either

    • make sure you know the filename of the image you want to import, then in the import dialog uncheck exclude duplicates and select by name just the image you want.

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    • before trying to import the image, copy it or move it to another folder - perhaps a temporary folder set up for the purpose with only that image in it, and import it from there.

    I don't quite understand your comment about two separate import sessions, unless you mean that you are in a catalog and it would now be in a separate item in the recent imports list. But you can always work in the folder the images are actually in, rather than in recent imports, which is only a virtual collection anyway. 

    Ian 

     

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