The phrase "able to capture it" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when referring to the capability of understanding, recording, or seizing something, whether it's an idea, emotion, or physical object.
Example: "The photographer was able to capture it perfectly in her stunning landscape photograph."
Alternatives: "capable of seizing it" or "able to grasp it."
The path was so close that Earth was able to capture it within its orbit.
"I think this is a one in a lifetime event and I am so happy that we were able to capture it in all its glory". View photos of the eruption here.
"But Dr. Keith is going to be able to capture it with the absorbent he uses".
And the longer America drags its feet, the more it cedes this enormous potential source of national wealth to the only other country able to capture it — China.
More interesting: If you see video on the Web that's not on cable at all — from a movie on Netflix to a silly clip on YouTube — you might be able to capture it online and send it to your television.
He's certainly a new kind of shooter, one who doesn't need to elevate above his opponents to score, and one with a game so particular and unprecedented that even Brandon Armstrong hasn't quite been able to capture it.
"And there's a lot of attention paid to the location we've been able to capture" because it appears on television programs for networks including ABC and MTV, as well as during coverage of events like the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade and the New Year's Eve celebrations.
An ethnographer would be able to capture what it is that a nurse actually does - rather than what nurses think they do.
As recently demonstrated by Ron Germain's group, dendritic cells in interfollicular regions (LS DCs) are able to capture antigen; it would therefore be important to demonstrate that SIGN-R1 interfollicular macrophages are actually capturing the gp120 and exclude the possibility that this is coming from DCs.
In a perfect world, I am able to capture that (record it), and by the end of the food chain, someone else has experienced it.
You'll never be able to capture all of it, but you don't want to miss and therefore take so much more time.
