Improve Capture One
Request a new feature, or support for a camera/lens that you would like to use in Capture One.
Request a new feature, or support for a camera/lens that you would like to use in Capture One.
Film scanning is more popular than ever — from personal archives to museum preservation. Many scanners (Nikon, Plustek, Epson, Pacific Image/Reflecta, etc.) can capture an infrared channel to detect dust and scratches. Software like SilverFast HDRi and VueScan RGBI can save RAW scan files (TIFF/DNG) with both the image data and the IR defect map.
Capture One currently cannot use this IR channel for cleaning. This forces users into a choice:
Use the IR cleaning in scanning software and lose RAW editing flexibility in Capture One, or
Keep RAW flexibility in Capture One but spend hours manually removing dust and scratches.
Adding infrared-based dust/scratch removal directly to Capture One’s RAW workflow would be a world-first in mainstream RAW editors, saving hours of work and making C1 the top choice for anyone digitizing film.
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Current workaround
I currently run iSRD cleaning in SilverFast or IR Clean in VueScan, then export 48-bit TIFFs for Capture One. This preserves the cleaning but loses the white balance flexibility and tonal range of RAW files. Alternatively, I skip IR cleaning and manually retouch dust in Capture One or Photoshop, which is extremely time-consuming for large archives. |
