Phocus
Export New Images Automatically: Setting Up the Phocus Hot Folder
For a really complicated reason, I was messing around with Phocus, looking for ways to simplify a workflow that would still give me HNCS.
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Features, releases, and how-to coverage of Hasselblad's Phocus software.
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Phocus 4.2.3 for Mac Fixes the Adaptive CA Crash
Hasselblad released Phocus 4.2.3 for Mac overnight. The read-me is dated October 14, the installer went up on Hasselblad's
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Four Clicks to a Crash: Phocus 4.2.2 and Adaptive CA
Phocus for Mac strikes again! Version 4.2.2 crashes, almost every time, when you turn on Adaptive CA correction. Click an image, let
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The Phocus Grayscale Panel Is a Real Channel Mixer
The Phocus Grayscale sliders look like a global brightness control. Measured on a ColorChecker frame, they're a genuine per-channel B&W mixer.
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I Asked Hasselblad Which Render Is the Real HNCS. Wrong Question, as it turns out.
Hasselblad engineering defines HNCS: an always-on stage in every Phocus render. What my earlier claim got wrong, and what the gap really is.
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Phocus 4.2.2 for Mac: HEIF Fixes, Language Switching, Smoother Zoom
Hasselblad released Phocus 4.2.2 for Mac on August 20th, five weeks after 4.2.1. The build is on their CDN and
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Hasselblad RGB Is Missing From Phocus for Mac and Lightroom Export Menus
The built-in TIFF-16 preset exports in Adobe RGB (1998), and for most work that is the right choice. This is about the
Workflow
A Complete Hasselblad RAW Workflow: Cull, Phocus, 16-Bit TIFF, Lightroom
Every week the same question surfaces on r/hasselblad, in the Facebook groups, or in my inbox: what does a sensible Hasselblad workflow actually
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How HNCS Actually Works: Hasselblad's Color Science Explained
HNCS isn't baked into your files at capture. Here's how Hasselblad's render-time color pipeline in Phocus actually works, mechanism by mechanism.
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What Is Hasselblad Phocus? A Free RAW Editor for Mac
If you just bought a Hasselblad X System camera, or you're deciding whether to, "Phocus" is the word you might
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Phocus, Capture One, or Lightroom? I Measured Instead of Guessing
The same Hasselblad RAW, measured in Phocus, Capture One, and Lightroom: tone, color, and lens handling differ more than you'd guess.
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Phocus 4.2.1 for Mac Has Eleven Words of Release Notes
Hasselblad released Phocus 4.2.1 for Mac on July 15th. As I write this, their own Phocus product page still lists 4.2
X2D II
Phocus 4.2 Modifies Your RAW Files on Import and Breaks DxO PureRaw
Phocus 4.2 import rewrites the EXIF Model tag in 3FR files. DxO PureRaw rejects them, checksums break, and Hasselblad calls it by design.
X2D II
Culling a 1,500-Frame Hasselblad Shoot in Fifteen Minutes
How I sort a 1,500-frame Hasselblad card in 10 to 15 minutes with Palomino, then hand clean keepers (and ratings) to Phocus.
Workflow
Capture One's Hasselblad Support: What You Get and What Stays in Phocus
Capture One 16.8.3 opens Hasselblad 3FR files natively. What you get today, and what still needs Phocus: HNCS color, HDR output, FFF, tethering.