Don't want to start is discussion about pros and cons of Phocus vs Capture One's capabilities for tethering, but what might these "other requirement and features" be on a set? i did tethered shooting into C1 with my D2x..D3...D4s but didn't notice any big differences from tethering with Phocus, except that i couldn't get the damn images stable displayed on the screen when shooting straight downwards for repro work (but that was more of a Nikon problem...I think that gyro sensor was not properly recognized by C1). Can u enlighten us a bit, might be interesting to know what else is out there...? Thanks
The layout, I feel, is much cleaner, more customizable, and tools/menus are faster to cycle/switch through. There are numerous keyboard shortcuts in C1 and this really makes a big difference on a fast paced set. Where there are separate panels for information in C1, there's a drop down menu or file menu in Phocus that takes up the screen or prevents you from doing anything. When a photographer is shooting fashion and images are constantly streaming in, it helps the tech to be able to see stuff in a side menu vs a drop down.
Also, things like the color editor, scripts, processing options and most importantly, how the two programs differ with file management. Phocus gives you some very basic options for name presets and folder organization. C1 is incredible and vast with the ways you can organize, search, filter, rate, name, and manage files and folders.
For instance, when I'm working on a job that spans 10-20 days with several shots per day and, quite literally, thousands and thousands (or gigs/tb's) of images, then the organizational abilities offered in C1 become important. And the differences between Phocus and C1 start making themselves apparent.
So a big part for me is that using C1 is smoother and quicker. It lets me do my job without the issues Phocus has displayed to me in the past.
I do want to say that I really wanted Phocus to be great. And version 3 is much better than 2. C1 has a bunch of features and shortcuts that are also available in Phocus but they're just implemented better in C1.
And of course, I'm writing from the perspective of a digitech. If you don't see any differences between the two programs in your workflow, no real need to switch.
As for the top down stuff, that's always been a finicky thing in C1 with 35mm since, as they say, they're making the software for Phase products and just adding support for smaller systems as a nice "feature." But they dealt with it much better now than it's been in previous versions if you haven't tried C1 10 yet.