I love using Capture One. I consistently get better colors with it and the editing process puts me into a place where I become more meditative about working on specific photos. Manufacturers also often encourage the press to work with Capture One instead to deliver better looking images because they pay for a license to make it happen. But there’s an annoying thing about it. If you’re shooting RAW and JPEG, you have to specifically choose to filter out the JPEGs as you import. Otherwise, when editing, it’s nearly impossible to exclude the JPEG files from the import. Indeed, it’s nowhere as simple as it is with Lightroom. I recently found a solution, though.
So the solution: Global Filters -> Hide JPEGs.
This will hide the JPEGs across the board though; which is probably not something you want for that particular import into a catalog. If you’re working in sessions, then that won’t be an issue at all. But I do catalogs because I often go back to different shoots for comparisons and such.
When I shoot photos these days, my cameras will render the JPEG as one look and the RAW as another look. Sometimes, I’ll really just use the JPEG because it’s more than good enough for my needs. Why do extra post-production? And at times, I don’t like the JPEG and so I’ll edit the RAW. I’ve never been able to find a quick way to do this filtering otherwise. So this means that I need to go through each photo individually at times even though I did star-ratings in-camera to prevent the need for my doing that and therefore wasting time.
Hopefully Capture One makes a better fix for this in the future with their search parameters.
While we’re at it, we’re currently working on new Capture One Styles. These ones are designed to look like retro digital cameras — specifically, some of your favorites that everyone found iconic. So stay tuned for that.