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We made a new processing engine in Capture One 7, because we over the last couple of years have received inputs
that in certain areas, there might be possibilities of improving the image quality.
By starting from scratch, getting a completely new perspective on things,
it was possible to take a huge leap forward in the image quality.
Some of the new DSLR cameras have introduced very high ISO settings,
so we really needed to come up with some new noise reduction, that could deal with these new kinds of camera settings.
There are a lot of similarities between music reproduction, and generating high quality digital images.
It is very much driving for perfection,
and extracting the maximum amount of details and quality from your source material.
A very big part of my work is to look at the customers' feedback, the images they send us,
and try see what it is they want to get out of their images, and then how we can help them improve the images.
The biggest challenge you face when you design a RAW processing engine
is to balance all of the compromises.
So you may be focusing on one parameter that previously have caused issues for our customers,
and if you just focus on that parameter it is quite easy to fix that.
But if you only focus on that, you will probably realize that you have lost another parameter.
In a sense, it is like to push 30 balloons into a box
you really have to make sure that you are using all your hands to stuff all the balloons in
and not only trying to put one in, because then the they escape in the other end.
And it is very much the same here,
there are at least 30 different disciplines we need to handle: e.g. sports, fashion, landscape and architectural photography,
and they all have their own criteria for what makes a good image.
When you get Capture One 7, with the new processing engine,
we have the ability to actually open up, and see the same image
rendered with the old engine and the new version 7 engine
you would really realize how much better quality you get.
I think that most people would find that,
with Capture One 7 they will revisit and reprocess all of their old photos.
We were able to improve significantly on a number of parameters.
I am very proud of what we got out of the version 7 engine.