A lot of photographers like to work with Capture One because the colour rendition is one of the best you can get from a raw converter. While this is true for most of the cameras and situations, there might still be some issues with specific cameras or images. For quite a long time photographers requested the support for X-Rite’s ColorChecker Passport Photo and other targets. Up til now, PhaseOne has not implemented an easy way to use the ColorChecker Passport and furthermore X-Rite had no support for Capture One in their software.
But times have changed, X-Rite released a new version of the ColorChecker Passport Software which allows photographers to create ICC camera profiles from pictures including the ColorChecker Passport.
I’m currently writing an article that shows the process in depth.
Furthermore, I will make a comparison of X-Rite’s free ColorChecker Passport software with basICColor input 5 and hopefully with Lumariver Profile Designer.
How To Use Colorchecker Passport
ColorChecker Camera Calibration is the software to calibrate colors and brightness shooting with a specific combination of camera and lens using the famous XRite calibrated color pattern targets (ColorChecker Passport is one of the most popular version) and thus creating profile correction files to be used in your image editing workflow (tipically starting from RAW). Photograph a ColorChecker Passport or any ColorChecker Classic in raw file format Process the file in Capture One using the recommended settings and output a TIFF Run the TIFF through the Camera Calibration software v1.2 to create your custom ICC profile. Quit and reopen Capture One. For the past few months, we have been working with Xrite on a beta of their ColorChecker App that is utilized for custom profile generation. The key difference for this app is that it now incorporates ICC profiles, not just the previous DNG workflow. For Capture One users, this is huge.