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Phase One Capture One Pro 10

CAPTURE One Pro is a powerful and professional alternative to Lightroom, albeit more expensive. It’s commonly used as session-based studio tethering software for Phase One’s medium-format cameras and regular DSLRs, but it can also be used after a shoot as a combined image cataloguing and raw editing tool in a very similar way to Lightroom.

Initially Capture One’s interface can look quite technical and daunting, but you might not need many tools specific to medium-format photography. It’s quite easy to customise the tool tabs to show only the options you use regularly or consolidate them into a single panel.

When you select a raw file for editing, Capture One will apply its own camera profile for that model. It will also

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