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Support editing images with extended brightness range

Stepan Khapugin

With many phones (at least all OLED iPhones), TVs, higher-end tablets (iPad Pro 12.9") and monitors (Macbook Pro, Pro Display XDR) supporting HDR content, it would be great to be able to target these displays in Capture One. Today, a photo of a sunset taken with an iPhone will look more vivid than a picture taken with and any pro camera processed in C1, when viewed on a compatible screen, simply because the C1 cannot output to a color space with extended luma.

It would be therefore awesome to have:

1. an option to support an EDR (extended dynamic range; Apple's term for wide dynamic range) workflow, provided that a user has a compatible display, and

2. an option to export wide dynamic range files, e.g. HLG HEIC

 

 

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    Agreed. I believe Affinity Photo for macos has some support for features in this area: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KuMHg1wzWzA . Though, I would've preferred to use Capture One for this.

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  • romain guilbault

    ˆthis.

    That would be a good opportunity for C1 to take the lead on Adobe PS/LR.

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  • Doug Mytty

    Oops…looks like Adobe Lightroom just took the lead on C1! But hey, at least C1 is catching up to Adobe in the area of playing licensing games.

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  • romain guilbault

    Hello Doug,

    Not sure what you’re referring to? Did Adobe launched XDR support recently?

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  • Fabrizio Giudici (stoppingdown)
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    https://www.dpreview.com/articles/7584045384/adobe-demos-true-hdr-support-in-adobe-camera-raw-giving-a-glimpse-of-photography-s-bright-future

    Even though it's still 'Technology Preview'.

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  • Doug Mytty

    Unfortunately Capture One is not even in the FoV.

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  • Doug Mytty

    Capture One has really been behind on delivery.

    HDR processing of RAW imagery with export to 10 bit HEIF is a natural way to create natural looking HDR imagery, rather than the garish fake HDR exported to 8 bit JPEG.

    Tens of Thousands of $$ of hardware being held up by cheap ($200/yr) software.

    $200 doesn’t even cover the cost of coffee required to stay awake late while attempting to shoehorn a colorful dynamic range scene into a shoebox of a color- and light- space.

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  • romain guilbault

    well well well, just spent some time editing and exporting some photos in both Jpeg xl and AVIF in Camera Raw. Pretty pleased with the UX and the expended histogram.
    Now if ppl at C1 could copy paste it and add HEIC export, I’d jump on the subscription train!
    Now, seeing the lack of interest for this thread… I’m likely switching back to Lightroom.

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  • Doug Mytty

    Yep. Switching would be justified. It is that big a thing.

    Unfortunately, Capture One’s annual licensing scheme insulates them from feeling the need to push innovation.

    If there was a ‘per session’ fee paid, then we’d see some real competition!

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