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Leaf Aptus II processing in Capture 7

Bruce Rohr
Hello All,

I am shooting Mamiya RZ Pro II D and Mamiya RZ Pro II camera's with two Mamiya Leaf Aptus II backs in my studio. I shoot strictly tethered on a couple of Mac Pro desktops (mid 2010) running Mac 10.7.5. I am running Capture One 6.4.3 After a rocky start with (stable tethering on all day shooting) earlier versions of both Capture 6 and Mac 7, everything has been running great. I love the set up and the results I have been getting. I have heard the new Capture 7 has a great processing engine, and wondered if anyone has tried processing the Leaf/Aptus .mos files and noticed any improvement. To ease myself into the new system I was thinking about loading up 7 on my Mac Pro Laptop and processing the files using the new Processing engine to evaluate the possible benefits. Any comments or experience with this topic would be appreciated.

Thanks,

Bruce
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  • Paul Steunebrink
    Although I strongly belief in the qualities of the new processing engine, only you can convince yourself. Install CO7 next to CO6 (select Keep Both during installation) and open a number of images in 7.

    Note that by default images that have been adjusted with CO6 will not use the new engine in 7. New images do.
    You can manually select the new engine in CO7 for previously adjusted images with the Upgrade button in the Base Characteristics tool.
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  • Yair Shahar
    What Paul says:-)

    In addition, in 7 you u can set up two variants of the same image, side-by-side with one showing CO6 processing (with your current adjustments) and one showing CO7 processing so that you can evaluate (and appreciate) the improvements and try the new tools

    Enjoy!

    Yair
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  • Paul Steunebrink
    Yair is right 😉

    Great tip to use variants for side-by-side comparison. I use it in trainings and demonstrations a lot, in particular for the HDR, Clarity and Noise Reduction tools.
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  • Bruce Rohr
    Paul and Yair,

    Thanks for the advice. I agree that doing side by side comparison with no variable except the processing engines is doing good photography and good science. When I get some time I intend to do just that. When I do I will post the results.

    Bruce
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