Hi,
Just to say, Adobe had a tool all along called DNG Profile Editor that allowed for both calibration using ColorChecker Passport and tuning of colours. For some reason, the Adobe product was always ignored although being far more flexible than the Xrite solution. Both are absolutely free and both only support DNG Color Profiles.
I don't know why Xrite doesn't support Capture One, but I am pretty sure that it is related to Adobe's use of ICC profiles. Saying that "we are using ICC profiles" is like saying that we use the "latin alphabet". That alphabet is perfectly useful for writing English, German or even Finnish.
Now ICC profiles are intended to convert between two well defined colour spaces, most frequently going over a so called connection space. Also it may be said that ICC profiles are really output oriented. That is no great problem, the math is the same.
But, handling profiling the way Capture One does takes a lot of reverse engineering, and I can guess that there may be things like intellectual property to consider. Or the there may be a risk that the colour profiles could be broken.
QPCard can generate ICC profiles, but explicitely does not support Capture One or Phocus:
"Raw Converter Compatibility: This application generates profiles for Adobe Photoshop ACR and Adobe Lightroom. Icc profiles usable in linear edit raw converters can also be generated with the ICC plugin. ICC compatibility does not yet include Hasselblad Phocus or Capture One, but the necessary adjustments are currently being reviewed for release."
QPCard also has a nice, but not necessarily correct, description of the differences between DCP och ICC:
http://www.qpcard.com/en_b2c/dcp_icc_profileBut, rejoice! A guy dwelling in the far, far north of Sweden developed a great tool called DCamProf. It is a very useful tool and can generate both DCP and ICC profiles. The downside is that you need to read TFM (The Fine Manuals) and it is command line based. The upside is that it can be used with any target.
http://www.ludd.ltu.se/~torger/dcamprof.htmlA small note, shooting targets is a bit elaborate, as flare and light contamination needs to be kept low.
Best regards
Erik
It was so easy to do color calibration with LR(still is) using the GretagMacbeth ColorChecker now called Xrite color checker.
I'm not aware of a similar system for Capture One--I have to use the color editor to one by one edit multiple colors to get close--is there anything similar for C-1?
If I'm missing something, please tell me.