After a few months of trying to figure out how to get the correct colors in Capture One from a X1D when compared to a Phocus, I finally bit the bullet and bought an X rite color passport

Profiling

Profiling was pretty straightforward

• Take a picture of the x rite target

• bring it to Phocus, export as dng

• use my script from asselblad-3fr-fff-in-capture-one to be able to open it in Capture One

• In Capture One

  • remove all default adjustments (like sharpening and denoise)

  • set the ICC profile to Effects->NoColorCorrection

  • set the curve to Linear Response

  • Make a new Process recipe with

    • Format: Tiff/16bits

    • Options: Uncompressed

    • ICC Profile: Embed Camera Profile

  • Export the Tiff

• In the ColorChecker Camera Calibration software load the tiff on the ICC-TIF tab (adjust the targets area if needed) and create the icc file

Results

Overall it gives me the feeling that I’m definitely way closer to Hasselblad’s Phocus’s creamy and soft gradients.
The results are a mix bag of emotions, some photos Phocus matches perfectly to capture one, others not so much but they are rather close.

Still a few things to figure but I can call this an almost-success

icc profile

I figure Hasseblad does have a good factory camera profiling, so using an icc profile from another camera couldn’t be far away… so here it is if you wan to give it a try yourself.

Phocus vs Capture One + icc colors comparisson

Here is an image where you can see Phocu’s better sky colors and gradients, but overall you get good enough matching shadowing colors, and greens, et all.
IMHO green shades and vegetation gradients are the hardest part, which seems to be handled correctly here at magnification

Top: Hasselblad’s Phocus
Bottom: CaptureOne