New HDR tool in development, please innovate, think about multiples shots
Hi,
I've just learned that your planning to create a new HDR / Panorama HDR tool in capture one. This is awesome, this is probably the main reason I'm stil in Lightroom now.
But, as you're late to the party, don't just copy LR's function, leapfrog them. Not just by your better raw processing. There's is much more to do where LR falls short.
I often shoot HDR, and panorama HDR handheld. This has the consequence that the exposure time for the lightest frames are often close if not below the 1/focal number rule. Therefore, those lightest frames are in risk of motion blur.
So instead of shooting 1 HDR sequence, I shoot maybe 5 or so, for the same picture. So to augment my chances to get perfectly sharp light frames.
Also, I often use do this with telephoto lense, and then even with stabilization, and fast exposure time even in the lightest frame, I have to fight against small framing differences as its not easy to maintain the exact framing, not to mention that optical stabilization itself seems to introduce some framing shifting.
So I also overshoot multiple sequences for the same picture.
Of course, then selecting the best frame is a chore in lightroom, not to mention that due to small unvanted framing differences the best and most matching lightest frame of the picture may come from sequence 5 and not from sequence 1.
So ideal granted a single picture
Best frame -2 could be from sequence 2, best frame il 0 could be from sesquence 1, Best frame +2 could be from sequence 5.
So I'd like capture one HDR implementation to :
- auto-recognize same pictures's sequences (leverage focal distance, + time range, and maybe some Ai to check for teh framing).
- given a Picture's sequences, pick the sharpest, and amongst them the most matching of first picture framing. To generate the sharpest largest common framing.
- Recognize panoramas automatically and so the same fram selectsions. Auto pano Giga did this.
- Maybe, if frames of similar good quality and framing exist, fusion them to eliminate noise.
have a batch mode that can tell Capture one to process every photo of a catalog and look for HDR / Panorama / Hdr panorama and process them automatically. So I could ask Capture one to do it's job during the night.
If there's multiple projections for panoramas, like spherical/perspective, cylindrical, automatically chose the best and if not possible, process all the projections possible so the used wil be able to chose.
And finally offer a fusion, rather than hdr option like the LR plugin enfuse did.
For me this would warrant switching to Capture one.
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That sounds like a lot of work for the revenue from a single license.
Also it reads like functionality of a type that I seem to recall being described in some of the more specialised Panorama or photo merging products.
What other applications, apart from LR, have you used previously?
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Seriously? I guess no software even dedicated can do this currently, but in order to switch from LR to C1 you need all this?
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Personally, putting the challenge of panoramas aside for a moment, I would much prefer to avoid most of the issues of "HDR" produced using multiple images by being able to make required adjustments from a single image.
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SFA,
If camera manufacturers continue to produce cameras in the future I am confident that this will be possible easily with new sensors that won't clip highlights.
We're not yet there though.
In the mean time, Phase One XT? :-)
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