Phase One Releases Capture One 8.2; Available for Download

The RAW converter now enables you to separately tone shadows, highlights and midtones via the improved 3-Way Color Balance tool.

The software’s extensive adjustment tools will benefit from an updated processing engine and the entire workflow is said to be faster and more stable.

Other new features include Dynamic Locations, high-res previews for 4k and 5k monitors and improved graphics.

The 8.2 update is free if you have a Capture One Pro 8 license, and available for a 30-day trial if you don’t.

The new release provides bug fixes, performance enhancements, stability improvements and new camera and lens support, in addition to new features.

As far as new features, Phase One lists the following:

• New 3-Way Color Balance Tool for color grading
• Dynamic Locations for optimized workflow
• High resolution previews for 4k and 5k monitors
• Resizable Curve and Color Balance tools
• General under-the-hood improvements for tethering
• Improved graphics in Library tool
• New 5-point Curve preset for ease-of-use

File support has been added for the Nikon D5500, Olympus OM-D E-M5 II, Fujifilm X-A2, Panasonic GF7 and Sony NEX-VG900E.

Tether support has been added for the Nikon D750 and D5500, while it has been removed for the Nikon D200.

Improved color for the Canon 7D Mark II is also mentioned.

Bug fixes include stability improvements, several alignments and localization bugs, improved mask drawing (for Mac users) and the application no longer crashes if an external hard drive is disconnected.

Additionally, slideshows’ speed issue has been fixed and so has the integration with Media Pro. The final two fixes address issues where Folder Hierarchy in the Library tool would not show and where Masks would not be saved to EIP files.

The newly supported lenses are mainly Zeiss lenses with a couple of Nikons and a Sigma:

• Zeiss Distagon T* 3.5/18mm ZF.2
• Zeiss Distagon T* 2.8/21mm ZF.2
• Zeiss Distagon T* 2.8/15mm ZF.2
• Zeiss Distagon T* 2/28mm ZF.2
• Zeiss Distagon T* 3.5/18mm ZF.2
• Zeiss Distagon T* 2.8/25mm ZF.2
• Zeiss Distagon T* 2/25mm ZF.2
• Zeiss Distagon T* 2.8/25mm ZF.2
• Nikon COOLPIX P340
• Nikon AF-S DX Zoom-NIKKOR 18-70 f/3.5-4.5G IF-ED
• Sigma 8-16mm F4.5-5.6 DC HSM (Canon EF)

As mentioned, the Capture One 8.2 update or 30-day free trial is already available for download.

Do you use Capture One? What do you think about the new release?