Noise cancelling, sharpening, history, GPS

Capture One urgently needs development for two tools: Noise cancelling and Sharpening. Both have not seen any significant development for years and are trailing the competition by a very considerable margin. DxO Deep Prime, Topaz DeNoise AI/Sharpen AI/Photo AI and Imagenomics Noiseware produce far better results.

Two additional tools are also required: History and GPS. Following a procedure of successive Undo/Redo is cumbersome and essentially blind. GPS data need to be displayed in a map tool within Capture One with some basic processing options (not just as a link to Google Maps). There must be plenty of other users that are not wedding or studio photographers.

Capture One has lost quite some competitive edge over the last 3 years. Version 23 has been somewhat underwhelming. If Capture One does not see very considerable development in 2023 and 2024, the competition will catch up and overtake.

PS: Capture One user since 2017, switched from Adobe LR at the time. Now running Capture one in parallel with DxO, Topaz and Noiseware. Using Capture One for professional (geosciences, high-resolution UAV) and personal photography (landscape, initial steps in VR processing). Approx: 25-40k shots per year.