When most of my photography was studio-based and digital, I was an advocate of using a Capture One workflow, which suited my needs very well. I loved the file organisation as much as the image editing tools, and shooting tethered makes so much sense for this type of work. However, it just didn’t seem to work for me when I started shooting a lot more film after a few years away. I decided to make the move to Lightroom, purely so I could use Negative Lab Pro for scanning my film. It works and works well, but I’ve never been totally satisfied, so I was very pleased to see Capture One announce an update, with a whole workspace and set of tools for scanning negatives.
I could return to Capture One's catalogue and session workflow for organising my files, and that feels so good, but it’s really the film scanning that excites me, for a number of reasons. First off, it means one less piece of software, a license to buy, tools installed, etc. Having native tools for a task is always preferable in my book.
