K i t Z o n e
120 DIGITAL CAMERA^ MARCH 2021 http://www.digitalcameraworld.comapture One 21 Pro is an
image cataloguing and
editing program that
offers a broadly similar
set of features to
Lightroom Classic. It is roughly
twice the price of Lightroom, but it’s
designed for professional workflows,
either with tethered studio shooting
in ‘sessions’ or for large-scale image
cataloguing, organising and editing.
Capture One also has a more
powerful layers-based approach to
local adjustments, advanced colour
controls and a raw processing engine
which produces crisper output than
Camera Raw and Lightroom. Capture
One is a desktop application that usesdesktop storage, so it’s much closer
to Lightroom Classic than the cloud-
based Lightroom CC. It was originally
developed and sold by medium-
format camera maker Phase One,
but it has now been split off into
its own company.
Capture One (the company) also
makes a range of Style Packs, which
are the equivalent of Lightroom
presets and can be bought separately
or as bundles with the software.Key features
Capture One offers a sessions-based
workflow for studio photography.
Tethered shooting is its speciality;
Capture One has just announcedWindows
Requires: Intel or AMD CPU with
two cores (four cores recommended);
8GB of RAM (16GB recommended);
Windows 8.1 64-bit, Windows 10 64-bitmacOS
Requires: Intel Core i3 or
higher (four cores recommended);
8GB of RAM (16GB recommended);
macOS 10.13 (High Sierra) or later, macOS 11 (Big Sur)C
A professional alternative to Lightroom
for cataloguing and editing images
Capture One 21 Pro
£299/$299
Software Capture One 21 Pro