Capture One – Photo rumblings and whispers

Notes on OM System OM-1 digital camera (DRAFT)

Pedro J. Aphalo 2022-12-30 2023-01-08Equipment, Photography, Techniques 0

Quite a lot has been already written in the internet about the OM System’s OM-1 camera, but I write down here some notes comparing it to the E-M1 Mk II and highlighting some use cases. I share this notes in case someone else finds them useful, although they are mostly intended for myself. Among the things frequently mentioned is a lack of improvement in image quality between old and new image sensors (e.g., OM system OM-1 vs OM-5 – The 10 Main Differences). This is one example of where my own experience differs drastically from the quick and dirty tests…

A time lapse video assembled in ImageJ

Pedro J. Aphalo 2019-08-21 2019-08-21Landscape, Photography, Techniques 0

Steps used to create video Use time-lapse setting in camera to take a series of 300 photographs, one every 10 seconds. Set auto-exposure lock. Set camera on a tripod. Import the 300 images into Capture One (version 12.1). Edit the first image including correction for perspective and cropping. Select the 300 images, copy the edits from the first photograph to the remaining 299. Export the 300 photographs JPEG, setting long edge maximum length at 1600 pix. Read the 300 images into ImageJ (version 1.52p) using “File > Import > Image sequence”. Export the video from ImageJ using “File > Save…

Capture One to the rescue

Pedro J. Aphalo 2019-03-04 2019-05-03Photography, Techniques 0

Rescuing a technically “bad photograph” is not that difficult nowadays. This photograph was taken against all odds… through the double glassing of a dirty window on a train racing at high speed through the landscape. To make things even worse the sun was shining on the window I took the photograph through and the glass was slightly tinted green. The result out of camera was a low contrast raw image that looked like a sure discard… but was it?