Leica Q digitally zoomed DNG import

jan edman

• March 23, 2017 16:54

When importing digitally framed (in camera cropped from my Leica Q) to 35 mm or 50 mm DNG+JPEG, Capture 1 does not recognise the cropped DNG which always shows up uncropped. The JPEG is cropped as set in the camera.
Contrary to this, my old Lightroom 5 as well as the Photoshop CS6 do recognise the framing and the imported DNG files are cropped as the JPEG files.
Obviously CS6 and Lightroom 5 reads the embedded data.

Is there any way to make C1 to do the same?

Of course, I can crop the DNG later to the original aspect ratio, but it is time consuming and not a precise.

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  brianmerwin

  • March 23, 2017 21:56

  NN635373466317908000UL wrote:
  Is there any way to make C1 to do the same?

  
  
  Unfortunately not. At least not at the moment (though I wouldn't hold my breath on this one).
  
  Phase One (understandably) doesn't really put a ton of time & effort into offering support for manufacturers of competing camera systems, and Leica has their own digital medium format lineup.
  
  I'm sure that Leica is as much to blame here as well and are probably a little resistant to opening up some of their SDK features in order to allow Capture One to make full use of the data in those files.

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  Ian Wilson

  Moderator

  • March 24, 2017 09:30

  

  The DNG from the camera is effectively a raw file and contains information that is not in the cropped version of the file. Therefore the C1 approach is to give you all the information that is there and not throw any of it away. If you wanted to have the DNG cropped the same as the JPG and you have imported both, you could copy the crop from the first JPG to the first DNG in your batch, and then copy that crop to all the others in the batch in one go, so it doesn't need to be too time-consuming.
  
  Ian

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  HansB

  • March 24, 2017 12:02

  What about creating a set of standard crops and saving them as user styles?
  
  Do twice (landscape and portrait), apply whenever you need them. You will need to switch off 'hide distorted areas' to be accurate, but you are cropping it anyway. Just include that 'hide distorted areas' setting in your user style.
  
  
  Regards,
  Hans

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  Benjamin Bezine

  • May 30, 2020 13:55

  Hi,

  I know this topic is old, but I made an open-source script to apply the Leica Q/Q2 crop in Capture One:

  https://github.com/bezineb5/c1-crop-from-exif

  Unfortunately, it's mac-only as there's not scripting in Windows version. Feel free to try!

  Ben

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