Redefine your raw processing with Capture One 4 PRO

Capture One 4 PRO software is now available for download! This is a landmark software release for Phase One and we are introducing many new changes.

Our R&D team have worked hard to develop a software architecture that can be quickly updated for new DSLR support and new features or functions. This new architecture is an engineering marvel that will allow us to keep up to rapid OS changes for both Mac and PC. I am also proud to note that both Mac and PC versions now look and operate in a similar manner.

The most important aspect of Capture One 4 PRO is that the functionality and workflow of version 3 is retained with all of the enhanced quality advantages of Capture One 4 PRO! The ColorEditor is now integrated, Styles are enhanced, and new creative tools have been added. Our breakthrough Lens tools prove that world class optical correction can be applied to almost any lens with spectacular results, regardless of camera platform.

If you have not had a chance to see Capture One 4 PRO in action, download a free 30 day trial and enjoy some new creative freedom!

We have a great story on the image for the new Capture One 4 PRO box by Tim Griffith. The architectural work of Tim Griffith is so focussed upon capture and with our own focus upon capture it seemed like the perfect opportunity to work with a creative icon. Look for the whole story on Tim's shoot in the next issue of RAWNEWS+.

+ Sensor + provides flexibility, choice to photographers

Sensor+ represents some very unusual technology that is completely different from anything we have ever offered before or has ever been offered in our industry.


We now provide two solution families with the P 65+ as our only back in the Sensor+ family and the rest of our backs as part of the XPose+ family of solutions. Learn more about Sensor+ technology and what our two solution families offer by reading the Phase One

Hot, hot news for better capture

Photokina is a great time for us to meet and talk to thousands of photographers over the 6 days of the show. We have a lot to talk about. The P 65+ is here! Finally, we have real full frame capture with 60.5 megapixels of resolution. Phase One is also rolling out our Sensor+ technology with the P 65+ which offers a scaled 15 megapixel output at full frame and double the ISO!


Just as exciting is our first public showing of Capture One 4 PRO. We are very near to releasing our final public version. I am extremely proud that our development team has retained the ability of Capture One to control and balance how digital or analogue an image can look and feel. Capture One 4 PRO actually goes much further with many new tools that push this control in new creative directions. Our expected release date is October 15th and we look forward to your excitement for the many new features and functions.

This month our feature article is a first shoot experience with photographer Drew Gardner and the P 65+ with Capture One 4 PRO. We also announce details about the P 65+ and Sensor+, Capture One PRO 4, our new expanded Phase One digital lens range and finally our newest alliance with Leica.

For many of you who will be at Photokina, we look forward to seeing you!

The challenges of location photography

Compact lighting tools, enormous exposure latitude with our Phase One P+ backs, powerful laptops, accurate LCD monitors and portable generators have transformed shooting locations into full production studios. The Phase One 645 Camera platform has been designed with the growth of location work in mind. With our product announcements before and at Photokina, we will add to the travel and on-location photographer's arsenal of tools!



This month we feature an article about rethinking the location kit by Peter Eastway, a review of the Phase One 645, P 45+ camera solution from Digital Photographer magazine and an article featuring Jens Honoré and his location work in Africa with micro banking group MYC4.

More and more in our industry are starting to understand that the point of photography is the subject, not the equipment, software or post-production. For Phase One, focusing on capture has been a key to our success. Our tools are designed to enhance a photographer’s workflow so that the moment and look of an image stays as unique as possible.


Henrik Håkonsson, President and CEO, Phase One

Back to the roots - with digital

By Featured Photographer Thomas Martin, owner of Thomas Martin Photography, Germany.



After looking back on a 10 year + history of using digital backs professionally I can truly say that I am as comfortable shooting digital as I was shooting film.

Having tried many digital systems, I use exclusively the Capture One PRO Software and the P 25 digital back from Phase One. The flow and ease of the software and its high quality of images really convinced me.




The combination of the digital back and the software gives me the ability to utilize my creativity in ways that were unthinkable when I started 20 years ago.

With the new generation of digital backs, P 25 or P 45 there is only one answer to this question: I work traditionally with digital!

The digital back combines the possibilities of analog photography with
the advantages of digital photography. When it comes to the ever lasting critical question of color & contrast then in my opinion there is an advantage in using a digital back.

With Phase One there is no limit in my creativity using light.


Read the full article.