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Request a new feature, or support for a camera/lens that you would like to use in Capture One.

Status Awaiting review
Workspace Feature requests
Categories Capture One Pro
Created by Krzysztof Nazar
Created on Nov 3, 2024

Lens correction: a way to set defaults per lens and exclude from copied adjustments.

I often use multiple lenses and/or cameras when doing a single session. I use Fujifilm X-T5 and X100VI, that share the same sensor. Before editing I apply manufacturer profile as a lens correction to all images because I think it's better than the default C1 correction. However, I need to do it by hand (very time consuming) or copy only between the same lenses, because C1 doesn't handle copying Lens Correction well. I need lens correction before adjusting exposure and cropping for obvious reasons.

Now, the problem is that sometimes I like one edit, so that I want it applied to all images taken at the same location. I copy with ctrl+shift+c and apply to other pictures. Everything looks fine until I close and reopen the session. After reopening (or exporting, or setting up a Live Session) I notice a bad overexposed vignette on pictures taken with a different lens than the image I copied the adjustments from. I reported this issue to support, but no solution was proposed and it still makes me lose a lot of time on something that should be automated. Currently I need to set the Lens Correction after the import and after the edits, and also to remember about it every time I copy any adjustments. It happened way too many times that my clients received images with the "overexposed vignette" because it only appears during export or after reopening, but not immediately in the viewer.

I think the images should be instantly corrected during import so that they look just as JPGs produced by the camera. In Capture One llight falloff is set to 0 by default (! why?), and the lens correction profile is different than the manufacturer's.

I have the following suggestions that would fix the problem. I attach images as an illustration. I feel like these features are quite basic and wouldn't take much time in development.

1. In adjustments clipboard add tickboxes to Exlude Composition and Exclude Lens Correction from auto-selection (instead of options: "Adjusted/Adjusted except composition/None"). I don't want Lens Correction to be copied along with artistic adjustments. That makes no sense, just like with cropping and straightening.

2. In Lens Correction tool add an option to set the current settings as defaults for the current lens, so that all future imports will have the same values (and that resetting Lens Correction would revert to these defaults!). Probably it would require one more button to reset the defaults to Capture One's originals.

I found a very similar solution to what I think would work for Lens Correction. It's in Base Characteristics. For Lens Correction it could be like "Save as Defaults for [lens name]" and "Reset Defaults for [lens name]".

It drives me crazy whenever I finish adjusting the images, send a Live Session link to the client, only to realize all images from one of the lenses are completely overexposed. This happens so often that I consider switching to another software. Lens Correction is really a very basic feature and I would happily trade any of the new fancy AI-supported functions for it.

My needs (and I believe all other users - I'm surprised there are so little complaints):
1. To override the default Lens Calibration for particular lenses that I have - ONCE and forget about it. Presets and importing lens-by-lens is not a solution for me. I already do something similar (smart albums sorting), but it takes a lot of time every session and still causes errors.
2. By default exclude Lens Calibration from being copied to adjustments cliboard.


Current workaround

Right now, I need to create a Smart Album to filter images taken with each lens separately and copy the lens correction only among them. Hovewer, I need to be careful later not to copy adjustments between different lenses, because it will cause bad lens cast correction to be applied. So in practice, to make sure I don't get bad results during export, I need to go through the correction process multiple times during editing. I think this is very unnecessary, overly time consuming, and I still very often get lens correction errors. Another issue is that when I copy Lens Correction of a zoom lens, it doesn't take into account the variable focal length. Let's say I copy the adjustments from a picture taken at 24mm to a picture taken at 10mm, and the second one is corrected like a 24mm picture! It's so so bad.