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Request a new feature, or support for a camera/lens that you would like to use in Capture One.
I just tested C1´s new tool for inverting Negatives. Right now I have nothing to add, it´s a good tool! There ist still some finetuning to be done with the files, but that´s the same procedure with other applications. All in all C1 was my choice to convert negatives even in former versions without this new feature. Now there is a bit more comfort.
But one feature is still missed, I reported it several years ago without reaction from C1. And I ask C1: Why do you make this effort with the new negative-tool, but why are you still so inconsistent with metadata? When I digitalize an historic photo from 1899, I have to set the date to 1899 in the IPTC fields.
Especially if C1 is used in archives and museums in surroundings of cultural heritage, it is urgent, to have the option, to set the IPTC:DateCreated in the metadata. Don´t mix it up with the feature to change the time in the exif field (C1/Metadata/Basic/Date), where you can change the time of taking the picture of one or in stack of more files. This affects the exif:CreateDate an means the time, when the digital file was created by the camera. This feature is good to correct the creation date, when you missed to change the time in the camera from winter- to summertime. (And at this point there is a bug: You can´t safe this setting into the original RAW-file. If you go to "synchronize metadata", the new setting of date/time will be erased to the old time. If you export the RAW file with the corrected time, e.g. as JPEG or TIFF, these exported files will get the new time.)
But now back to the origin:
There is a IPTC field called "DateCreated". You don´t have to mix it up with the field "CreateDate"! There is a big difference!
The field "IPTC:CreateDate" means the creation date of the digital file by camera or scanner.
The field "IPTC:DateCreated" means the date, when the original photo (or artwork, or sculpture) has been created, means when the artist painted his picture ore the photographer pressed the button to expose his film/Polaroid.
Especially when C1 should be used in cultural heritage surroundings, you can fill the most urgent metadata-fields, but one of the most urgent fields is still missed: the time when the object has been created. This missing feature is the reason, why I still work with Lighroom in my archive. LR can do this from the beginning! And I can sort my digitalized analog-photos by date!
