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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 Simon Cöster
Created on Jan 9, 2024

Image Averaging

What problem do you see this solving?

So, to achieve a "long exposure" effect, and also a noise reduction effect, stacking multiple raw images and average them (with aligning) you could achieve this. I guess this is what the Phase One cameras does "in-camera" with its Frame Averaging. However, that would be an awesome feature to have in Capture One as well (for us that doesn't use Phase One Camera).

There already exists a HDR merge tool that allows for aligning of the images. It's just another blend method, instead of blending for dynamic range, just average all chosen images to a new DNG file.

When was the last time you were affected by this lack of functionality, or specific tool?

This weekend

Current workaround

Are you using any workarounds or other solutions to achieve your goals in Capture One?

Yes, using Lightroom and Photoshop. Which I ultimately would like to avoid and just use Capture One.

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    Jan 13, 2024

    This is a handy thing I like to do as well. With image alignment, you can do very long handheld exposures this way. The night mode long exposure features of smartphone cameras do essentially this. Align a stack of photos, then median filter.

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