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Capture 7 vs. Capture 8 image quality improvement

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Have you noticed a significant difference in image quality in C1 8. I am running both and do not notice a huge difference in image quality or processing time. Using Nikon D4s, D800, GH4.

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  • Clemens Schwaighofer
    The highlight recovery is very different to C7. I feel it has less "glow circle" effect on dark to light edges when it is set to 90% or 100%. On the other hand it really only recovers the top highlights and not much of the upper mid tones.

    I am not yet sure which I prefer, at least with the C8 one I don't have to worry about the "glow circles".

    The rest seems the same like in the previous version.

    The only new thing are the film noise and that is pretty nice. You can do some really good grain in b/w effect.
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  • Keith Reeder
    [quote="NNN635003982619074238" wrote:
    Have you noticed a significant difference in image quality in C1 8.

    Nope - because apparently, in Phase One-speak, "improved" means the same as "the same".

    So the promised "improved image quality out of the box" actually means "the same image quality out of the box".
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  • ChrisM
    [quote="Keith Reeder" wrote:
    [quote="NNN635003982619074238" wrote:
    Have you noticed a significant difference in image quality in C1 8.

    Nope - because apparently, in Phase One-speak, "improved" means the same as "the same".

    So the promised "improved image quality out of the box" actually means "the same image quality out of the box".

    And I am going to continue to disagree with that.
    Perhpas if you refuse to touch a single slider, than yes, the IQ is the same. But then you might as well shoot Jpeg anyhow.
    For me, the new highlights/shadows tool means easily getting significantly balanced and better looking images in many circumstances. Perhaps the controlled studio environment does not need this tool, and for those shots, COv8 won't be that much of an improvement. But for outdoor shooting, where natural contrast is often hard to obtain, and DR is easily an issue, this new "HDR" tool is a great benefit.

    Chris
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  • Doug Peterson
    Areas of image quality improvement:
    - improved luminance noise reduction (only meaningfully visible in mid and high ISO shots)
    - improved HDR slider behavior
    - improved clarity slider behavior

    The increased toolset available as local adjustments (noise reduction, white balance, HDR, healing brush) are not technically "image quality" improvements but are closely related in a practical sense.

    There are also some nice small-touches (non-headline features, and small improvements) throughout the program as well as a new User Interface which is cleaner.

    But overall the main emphasis in Capture One v8 is improved speed and stability. Regarding speed - Some systems will benefit only a little (e.g. older systems that have poor GPUs and small amounts of ram for instance) while other systems will benefit quite a bit (recent systems with good GPUs) while other systems will benefit hugely (e.g. a new black Mac Pro with 2xD700 GPU).

    You can always use the free trial to evaluate these improvements for yourself and see if they are worth it to you.

    To me, Capture One was already the best raw processor, and also the best tethered workflow program, on the market by a good margin, so a version release which focused on speed/stability rather than packing in new features was very welcome. It creates a much better experience for today and a much better foundation for the future.
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