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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 Adam Hendershott
Created on Mar 27, 2025

Keep same crop size when switching camera orientation

When shooting vertically and tethering into capture and apply a crop, if you switch the camera to a horizontal orientation, (or vice versa situation), the crop does not translate well at all... for instance, if I'm shooting a 2x3 image horizontally, but I'm cropping it to a 3x4 when it comes into capture, i like that it keeps out the cropped out left and right excess. So when I turn my camera vertically, i want the crop to rotate with it! so then it should keep the 3x4 crop and just crop out the top and bottom excess, but instead it gives me a horizontal 3x4 crop on the vertical image... so then I hit "switch crop orientation", and then it makes the crop vertical, but it keeps the crop at the same exact size and that punches in to the image! So then i have to widen out each side of the crop to fit to the edge of the frame in order to get the same kind of crop I had with my previous horizontal image. The same exact problem will happen when i'm switching from a vertical orientation to a horizontal orientation. very frustrating. the only time it does what I need is when the crop is a 1x1 square, obviously, because the length of the edges stays consistent no matter the orientation of the camera. There should be some sort of crop “lock” that keeps the size of the crop and changes the orientation of the crop as the shooters change from horizontal to vertical with the camera.

Current workaround

For example, after shooting a 2x3 vertical image with a 3x4 crop, I switch to horizontal, the crop still comes in vertical. Then I switch crop orientation, and then have to drag the edges of the crop back to the edge of the frame. So if I’m switching between horizontal and vertical orientation with the camera often and I want to keep a similar crop, this becomes very frustrating. Especially when the photos are coming into capture quickly.