If you are an editorial, portrait, product, landscape or commercial photographer, there is a great chance you’ll be needing fujifilm tethering to Capture One Pro once in your professional career. You might want to show your work directly to your client, or through the computer to avoid the small screen and apply some settings.
Capture One Express for Fujifilm is a free photo editing software for Fujifilm cameras. Boost your photos with auto adjustments and instant looks. In Capture One Pro click on the Details (magnifier icon) to open the Details tab which includes Sharpness values. Ok now that we have access to Sharpening and Noise Reduction sections like that we can proceed with the new values This are the values ”out of the box” for Raf taken with ISO 200, with higher ISOs it will decrease the Amount value.
The fujifilm tethering is the ideal way to allow your client, art director, or the whole team to see the work on a larger screen, with images displayed live, with or without a specific development mode applied.
This article will clear things up for those of you who might want to try but find it really complex. How to configure the Fujifilm bodies, how to connect to Capture One Pro, and what we can now do with it (further versions of Capture One Pro and firmware updates from Fujifilm will soon allow more features).
Gear needed
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First of all, you need some gear, basically what you need is a cable to connect your computer to your camera, the rest is a nice to have, makes life easier, but it’s not necessary to start tethering.
I personally use Tethertools cables to connect my fujifilm X-H1 or my Fujifilm X-T3 to my computer. In my case I need the USB-C to USB-C for one camera, and USB-C to USB-3.0 for the other. But one important thing to take into consideration when buying the cable is to get one long enough. We often start with a short one, but it’s too short from day 1. Go for the 4.6 meter one, the longest from Tethertools, you’ll never be bothered by it being too long, but you’ll always be missing it if you purchase the short one when shooting through any tethering such as in this case fujifilm tethering.
Nonetheless, in the setup i’ll be showing below, i set it up with my Apple USB-C to USB-C cable from my computer, the shoot was going to last 1-2 hours, the computer lasts for 10, I knew i was safe and didn’t have any problem tethering that way over my tripod.
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Fujifilm tethering to capture one step by step
- On your Fujifilm Camera , open the menu and go to Tools
- Connection settings
- PC Connection
- Set it to USB Auto or USB Fixed
- PC Connection
- Connection settings
- Then connect your USB cable to your camera (if you try beforehand it won’t work), and to your computer.
- Finally, once the cable is connected to camera and computer, you can open Capture One Pro
- Go to the Tethering tab and you’ll see your camera and all the settings… you’re done and ready to shoot !
From now on, you can shoot and you’re tethering to your computer. Furthermore you can shoot by pressing the shutter from CaptureOne Pro or from your camera, both will work and images will be transferred directly. However, at this stage you can’t set film simulations nor can you set the speed, aperture from Capture One, you’ll have to do that from the camera.
My setup for fujifilm tethering to Capture One
- Fujifilm X-T3 or Fujifilm X-H1
- Stable & Solid tripod
To assist you in your first setup and trying tethering with your fujifilm camera, you’ll find a simple setup. I use the gear listed above to create a single post, on location, tripod based tethering station. In this case i’m just using my iPhone cable as mentioned above, it works perfectly for shoots requiring compositing for example.
Hoping that this post can be useful to you, and can make it easier for you to try some fujifilm tethering with capture one pro and your fujifilm cameras, I wish you a lot of pleasure in your shoots, and look forward to meeting you through my website, by comments at the bottom of this article, by the newsletter, by email or simply in real life. Do not hesitate to leave me a message, I will answer you with pleasure.
A lot of people know I am always raving about Capture One Pro and how much I like it better than Lightroom. And if you want to know why I like Capture One Pro over Lightroom, I made a video with the first ten reasons why I like Capture One more for my portrait photography than Lightroom, especially with my Fujifilm GFX Camera.
Reason one: Sessions and Catalogs
Capture One Pro gives you the option between working with sessions or a catalog. I love working with sessions because it is fast, and easy to back up and keeps your import, selects and outputs together in one folder, easy to back up. But if you like catalogs, you can use that to, and you can import your sessions in your catalogs.
Reason two: Speed
Capture One Pro is way faster with importing files, I did a test importing 40 GFX Raw files. Lightroom took 1.58 minutes for importing and creating a preview image and Capture One Pro only took 1.02 minutes, so is almost twice as fast.
Reason three: Fullscreen mode
Like you could do with Apple Aperture (Loved that program) you have a real fullscreen edit mode, so the only thing you see is your is you image and editing tools
Reason four: tethering
With Capture One Pro setting up a tethering shoot is easier, just plug in a USB cable and go!
Reason five: Working with Layers
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Instead of working with the pins with brushes in Lightroom you can work with layers and brush the effects in. This is way it is easier to keep track of what you did with editing and undo/see what you have done.
Reason six: Color balancing
Like you have when color grading video you can use color wheel when you use the Color balancing tool in Capture One Pro. This is a really great way for color toning your photo’s.
Reason seven: Customizing
With Capture One Pro you can really customize all you editing screens and set it up in a way you like. Making it easier and faster to edit you images
Reason eight: the luma curve
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Beside the RGB curve and Red, Green and Blue curves you also have the Luma curve. The advantage of the Luma curve is that it only adjusts the luminosity in the image and keeps you color naturel.
Reason nine: Clarity
The clarity function is also better in Capture One Pro. The biggest advantage is that when you add Clarity it does not boost your saturation like Lightroom does.
Reason ten: Grain
The grain function is also really good. Instead of adding a image of the structure of grain it really calculates how grain would appear with the color and setting, making it really looks like real grain.
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So these are the first ten reasons why I love Capture One Pro more then Lightroom. There are more. But these are the first ten I could think of. So maybe soon more!