Image quality right out of the gate beats Lightroom and anything else, to my eyes, anyway.The worst thing I’ve found about C1P so far is the cost, but if that’s the only drawback, there are worse things in this world for sure. The screenshot at the top is the stock configuration, and here’s the one I rearranged a bit to more closely mimic the Lightroom workflow, sorta. The interface is also very customizable: you can change keyboard shortcuts, move panels around, rearrange toolbars, add new toolbars, move bits of toolbars out and create floating panels, etc.there is essentially one screen: there’s no silo-ing of various functions in ‘Library’ or ‘Develop’ modules, for example, and you can go from editing to keywording to whatever without needing to load up a different screen: just switch tabs and get to work. The interface is easy to navigate and is different from many other RAW developers in two ways: But it does make it unique, as far as I can tell. Maybe this gives it a bit of a leg up vs. Then, there’s C1P: other than products from Nikon and Canon, Phase One is the only camera manufacturer I’m aware of that’s making their own darkroom software, and they’re definitely the only one that’s building in support for cameras from other manufacturers and selling the software commercially.* This has benefits in excellent library management (in Lightroom, anyway), but can sometimes limit the tools a bit or make too many assumptions about what users want/need, and they’re primarily focused on profiting for their shareholders. These are good too, and while these corporations have a background in image softwares, they’re primarily profit-driven and so focus on delivering to the broadest constituency. Then, there are the for-profit offerings from Adobe and Corel. I’m not sure why, but RawTherapee has no library, nor does LightZone, and the one in darktable is strange and hard to use-it seems to be little more than a front end for the file system, but one without any visible structure. Strangely, these are often a bit lacking in the library department. Open source software developers tend to be photographers or image enthusiasts in addition to coders, and therefore build in things that they find useful or have a need for. As I showed in earlier reviews, the Open Source softwares are no slouches in the image-manipulation department and the major commercial offerings have money (and, in some cases) strong brand recognition behind them. Will these tests verify that result? Allahu Alim.Ĭ1P started providing support for other camera manufacturers some time ago and introduced a catalog structure in version 7, so this puts it in a bit of a different league than other softwares tested here. If you surf the comment sections of Lightroom and other software reviews (I don’t recommend it, and you won’t find any here, since no one comments here) you’ll invariably see claims that C1P produces superior results to Lightroom and other softwares. It has excellent tethering support and this interesting and useful-sounding way of dealing with images called ‘Sessions,’ which I may or may not (will not, it ends up) go into later. How does it measure up? Well, read on and find out… General CommentsĬapture One (hereafter ‘C1P’) is made by Phase One-makers of medium format digital cameras and backs-and was originally designed to be used with files from their backs in studio settings. Then, while trying-and failing-to come to a decision about Lightroom CC or 6, and after running across 8 or 10 articles and comments about Capture One and its purportedly superior RAW conversion, I decided to give it a try. It currently doesn’t support files from the Olympus C5050, a 13 year old camera that I enjoy playing with from time to time, and so it was automatically excluded from consideration. To be perfectly honest, I had no plans to test Capture One. Program: Capture One Pro 8 (8.3.3) Platforms Tested Available: Mac, Windows Price: $299 Installation: Very usual.
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