I am nearly exclusively using lightroom for the DAM and printing advantages others noted above. As an example with the S my DNG files on import have capture sharpening, noise reduction zeroed, medium contrast curve etc applied automatically via a prest Edited Jby hoppyman The default conversions vary I am sure but they are just the starting point for customising the look as you prefer it to be. I don’t follow the remark about more juiced conversions in one raw converter though. Someone shooting differently may well have different priorities.įinally, if you accept the subscription model for Lr you can get Ps bundled with it for nearly nothing. I should add that my comments are about what is important for me and my style of photography. The raw conversion engine in Lr and Ps is the same of course. Finally I find the Print module easiest to use, once you have established profiles for example in Ps. During developing I can step out to Ps for example for edit tools like layers if needed for example, without leaving the Lightroom workflow. Batch ability for removing sensor dust spots, setting a curve and whitebalance and everything else etc. The presets option are powerful for default adjustments application. I can’t imagine individual handling not to mention being able to find something specific say a year later. In a half day in studio I might shoot 500 to 1500 exposures. All of that is vital for me with large numbers of files over some years. I find Lightroom compelling first for its digital asset management capability, including duplicating, tagging, organising of files. I haven’t used Capture One since it was initially bundled with Leica cameras so I can’t comment on its performance and features.
FASTRAWVIEWER INGEST FULL
I could live with either, but if I picked C1 I would have to get a full featured DAM to go with it.
Sometimes I prefer C1 and other times Lightroom. I've always kept two raw processors, having started in the day when none of them would do justice to all images. If I have a lot of images to review I will use FastRawViewer to cull my shots before the import to Lightroom. Even with a very fast machine and GPU you have time to go grab a snack before you can review your images using Lightroom. One of the big differences is in how long it takes after import to be able to review and cull shots. Indoors in mixed lighting the color shifts (due to different lighting color temperatures) are less in C1. Outdoor shots in full sun have much more contrast in Lightroom and I have to apply a custom curve to get them to match what I saw at the time I took them. Lightroom and C1 each give me a different starting point after import.
While it might make more sense to run C1 in Sessions mode (and avoid the second import) I prefer to not have the C1 session files intermixed with the images when I do backups. My Leica images are almost always processed in C1. After import into Lightroom I either process in Lightroom, or do a second import into my C1 catalog.
FASTRAWVIEWER INGEST PRO
Phase One's Media Pro is much better, but still doesn't do it for me. (The images are not contained in the catalog, just the references to their folder location.) The C1 catalog is not nearly as full featured and does not do many of the functions I use in Lightroom's catalog. So all my work gets ingested into Lightroom. I really depend on the Lightroom catalog, which now supports 100K of my images.
FASTRAWVIEWER INGEST MANUAL
Lightroom has a very nice automated tool for perspective distortion, while C1's is manual in operation. I use Structure a lot, particularly with Monochrom images.
No Dehaze tool in C1 and no Structure Tool in Lightroom. The tools sets are generally comparable, but there are differences. If you are comfortable with Photoshop many of the C1 tools work like their counterparts in Photoshop. I have always liked C1 color better than ACR and Lightroom, but that gap has closed considerably and now with Lightroom 7.3 I could be satisfied with the output from either one. I'm an M system shooter, but have been using Capture One since version 3.7 and Lightroom since the beta that preceded version 1.