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Great idea to post this thread, I hope a lot of good info will emerge here (I am also interested in this question, for the same reasons, no need to elaborate on that).
wolfloid wrote:
I don't really like the idea of a subscription, though would not rule it out. I definitely do not want to be Cloud dependent. Can Capture One replace my lightroom fully?
I used it before LR, and it has many of the features that LR has, but at that time was not so good at Digital Assets Management. From their website, it seems it improved.
One thing that will be a problem is porting the editing work that you have already done in LR. Since the engines are different, there is no hope for a perfect solution, but keeping a large part of the edits would help the switch. From the link below, it seems it could recover a part of them, but I am not sure at all how well this works:
https://www.thephoblographer.com/2017/03/06/import-lightroom-catalogs-capture-one/
Another option that I consider is DarkTable, though it seems much less well integrated than LR (experience after one hour of use...). It says it has a module to recover many of the edits done in LR, and remap them to close settings for its own engine, but I have not succeeded to get the procedure to work for me so far. I will be investigating it this week-end, and maybe asking on their forums, and will report back.
The other option that I am considering closely is DxO. It is good to know that the "Essential" version (that seems quite full featured) is currently free (limited time offer on their website), and the "Elite" version has a 25% discount. For now, I am evaluating the basic version, and I am quite pleased with the results so far (I processed only a couple of pictures so far, and I am very impressed with the files produced).
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