Capture One adds native Hasselblad RAW support in major update

Capture One finally opened the door Hasselblad shooters had been waiting for: version 16.8.3 now imports, organizes, and develops Hasselblad .3FR files natively, with no conversions and no workarounds. The support goes live for the X2D II 100C, X2D 100C, and CFV 100C digital back, and it is available now in Capture One Pro and in Capture One Mobile version 3.3.4.

For medium-format users, that changes the shape of the edit. Files stay inside one pipeline instead of bouncing through a conversion step that can eat time and shave off some of the latitude photographers want to protect in a high-end RAW workflow. Capture One said the update includes dedicated color profiles for each supported camera, along with lens profiles for Hasselblad XCD lenses designed to correct distortion, chromatic aberration, and light falloff. That makes this more than a checkbox compatibility update: it is a calibration pass built for the kind of precision rendering Hasselblad owners pay for.

The demand for that work had been building for years. Capture One said users kept asking for native Hasselblad support through forums, feature boards, and social channels, and the company’s own support page had previously said support for the Hasselblad X2D 100C was not currently planned. Rafael Orta, Capture One’s chief executive, described the old Phase One-Hasselblad relationship as “notoriously antagonistic.” DPReview noted that Phase One and Hasselblad were split into separate companies by private equity firm Axcel in 2019, a break that helps explain why this bridge took so long to build. Capture One has also said camera support requires extensive calibration, lens and sensor calibration, and RAW interpretation optimization, which means every model has to be tested deeply, not just added lightly.

The timing matters because Hasselblad’s current flagship, the X2D II 100C, is being pushed as the industry’s first 100-megapixel medium-format camera with true end-to-end HDR. Hasselblad says it also expands phase-detect autofocus coverage from 294 to 425 zones and adds 10-stop in-body image stabilization. Capture One’s new support covers that camera, plus the earlier X2D 100C and CFV 100C, while tethered capture is slated to arrive later in 2026. That is the part studio shooters will watch closest: if tethering lands on schedule, Capture One will stop being just a place to process Hasselblad files and start looking like a workable everyday hub for the whole session.