Thanks for your and DP's write up. Capture One's Linear Response curve is not entirely flat I learned in the Phase One school ;-) (POCP). The Linear Scientific curve is, and you can find that curve in Capture One for their digital backs.
Paul,
One further point....
I do think that the PhaseOne business model is similar to high fashion - selling MF backs (Haute Couture) to 1%ers in order to create a brand that allows you to sell C1 (e.g. perfume, cosmetics) to the masses.
In fashion, the perfume/cosmetics are their bread and butter, and they know it.
I have no idea but, at the moment, PhaseOne's cash-cow may well be MF backs, with C1 as a service product they have to provide in order to make the MF business viable.
But, if that is the case, I firmly believe it won't stay that way. DSLR and Mirrorless can only get better. If you
NEED (very deliberate emphasis) 100MP then you need 100MP. Period.
But, very few of us do.
Now factor in in-camera multi-shot (e.g. Sony) at less than the price of a lens for a PhaseOne.....you can see where I'm going.
C1 is a superb product, but I think that PhaseOne's customer focus, so to speak, lies still with MF and not the software.
As I wrote to them recently, the most bog-standard of all RAW developers, ACR, has far and away the best CA/Lens correction tool. If only C1 were as good.
D.