I've been using both on and off for 10 years now. I don't really care about the catalog features, or advanced editing. I have my own system for dealing with my files & if I need advanced editing I use Photoshop.
C1 is very interesting, the default rendering looks significantly different from LR. It has some sort of automagic color/contrast feature. Oftentimes I find myself loving the default C1 rendering, at the same time it's not really reliable and it's incredibly difficult to fix the image when the algorithm makes a blunder. When I was a Nikon shooter (8+ years ago) I hated how C1 magnified wilted blades of glass, a perfectly normal green field in July could end up looking like it's dying, C1 consistently reproduced this issue back then. I recently switched to Loxia primes as my main lenses. I never used lenses this contrasty before, C1 with these often produces really unnatural results. A perfectly normal backlit yellow wooden board can appear dark brown in C1. There is just no color accuracy whatsoever, at least not at default settings, however it's magical for portraiture, the skin color rendering is just so great. I always had the impression that C1 is mainly optimized for studio portraiture work.
The free Capture One express is good enough for me alongside PS.
I like LR, because it's reliable, the colors are consistently realistic. Noise reduction/sharpening is much better. For landscapes I would not recommend using Capture One, because it's not producing good sharpness at the pixel level on its own. If by accident Capture One nails the color for a landscape shot I usually just turn off all sharpening / noise reduction, export a TIFF and then sharpen it in LR or PS.
LR reacts to highlight clipping slightly better, the highlight slider is often producing ever so slightly better results over C1. There are also some tools that I hugely prefer in LR (spot removal, cropping, user presets, curves)
Others have mentioned that one is slower than another. With my lossless 24Mpx raw files (50mb ea) the difference is negligible on my PC, fast enough even with thousands of files processed in one sitting. I'm not sure about the exporting speed, I usually leave my PC immediately upon clicking export ..
Many have quit using LR when CC came about, since then I think LR has become significantly more responsive.
I've been using both on and off for 10 years now. I don't really care about the catalog features, or advanced editing. I have my own system for dealing with my files & if I need advanced editing I use Photoshop.
C1 is very interesting, the default rendering looks significantly different from LR. It has some sort of automagic color/contrast feature. Oftentimes I find myself loving the default C1 rendering, at the same time it's not really reliable and it's incredibly difficult to fix the image when the algorithm makes a blunder. When I was a Nikon shooter (8+ years ago) I hated how C1 magnified wilted blades of glass, a perfectly normal green field in July could end up looking like it's dying, C1 consistently reproduced this issue back then. I recently switched to Loxia primes as my main lenses. I never used lenses this contrasty before, C1 with these often produces really unnatural results. A perfectly normal backlit yellow wooden board can appear dark brown in C1. There is just no color accuracy what so ever, at least not at default settings. However it's magical for portraiture, the skin color rendering is just so great. I always had the impression that C1 is mainly optimized for studio portraiture work.
The free Capture One express is good enough for me alongside PS.
I like LR, because it's reliable, the colors are consistently realistic. Noise reduction/sharpening is much better. For landscapes I would not recommend using Capture One, because it's not producing good sharpness at the pixel level on its own. If by accident Capture One nails the color for a landscape shot I usually just turn off all sharpening / noise reduction, export a TIFF and then sharpen it in LR or PS.
LR reacts to highlight clipping slightly better, the highlight slider is often producing ever so slightly better results over C1. There are also some tools that I hugely prefer in LR (spot removal, cropping, user presets, curves)
Others have mentioned that one is slower than another. With my lossless 24Mpx raw files (50mb ea) the difference is negligible on my PC, fast enough even with thousands of files processed in one sitting. I'm not sure about the exporting speed, I usually leave my PC immediately upon clicking export ..
Many have quit using LR when CC came about, since then I think LR has become significantly more responsive.
I've been using both on and off for 10 years now. I don't really care about the catalog features, or advanced editing. I have my own system for dealing with my files & if I need advanced editing I use Photoshop.
C1 is very interesting, the default rendering looks significantly different from LR. It has some sort of automagic color/contrast feature. Oftentimes I find myself loving the default C1 rendering, at the same time it's not really reliable and it's incredibly difficult to fix the image when the algorithm makes a blunder. When I was a Nikon shooter (8+ years ago) I hated how C1 magnified wilted blades of glass, a perfectly normal green field in July could end up looking like it's dying, C1 consistently reproduced this issue back then. I recently switched to Loxia primes as my main lenses. I never used lenses this contrasty before, C1 with these often produces really unnatural results. A perfectly normal backlit yellow wooden board can appear dark brown in C1. There is just no color accuracy what so ever, at least not at default settings. However it's magical for portraiture, the skin color rendering is just so great. I always had the impression that C1 is mainly optimized for studio portraiture work.
I like LR, because it's reliable, the colors are consistently realistic. Noise reduction/sharpening is much better. For landscapes I would not recommend using Capture One, because it's not producing good sharpness at the pixel level on its own. If by accident Capture One nails the color for a landscape shot I usually just turn off all sharpening / noise reduction, export a TIFF and then sharpen it in LR or PS.
LR reacts to highlight clipping slightly better, the highlight slider is often producing ever so slightly better results over C1. There are also some tools that I hugely prefer in LR (spot removal, cropping, user presets, curves)
Others have mentioned that one is slower than another. With my lossless 24Mpx raw files (50mb ea) the difference is negligible on my PC, fast enough even with thousands of files processed in one sitting. I'm not sure about the exporting speed, I usually leave my PC immediately upon clicking export ..
Many have quit using LR when CC came about, since then I think LR has become significantly more responsive.
I've been using both on and off for 10 years now. I don't really care about the catalog features, or advanced editing. I have my own system for dealing with my files & if I need advanced editing I use Photoshop.
C1 is very interesting, the default rendering looks significantly different from LR. It has some sort of automagic color/contrast feature. Oftentimes I find myself loving the default C1 rendering, at the same time it's not really reliable and it's incredibly difficult to fix the image when the algorithm makes a blunder. When I was a Nikon shooter (8+ years ago) I hated how C1 magnified wilted blades of glass, a perfectly normal green field in July could end up looking like it's dying, C1 consistently reproduced this issue back then. I recently switched to Loxia primes as my main lenses. I never used lenses this contrasty before, C1 with these often produces really unnatural results. A perfectly normal backlit yellow wooden board can appear dark brown in C1. There is just no color accuracy what so ever, at least not at default settings. However it's magical for portraiture, the skin color rendering is just so great. I always had the impression that C1 is mainly optimized for studio portraiture work.
I like LR, because it's reliable, the colors are consistently realistic. Noise reduction/sharpening is much better. For landscapes I would not recommend using Capture One, because it's not producing good sharpness at the pixel level on its own. If by accident Capture One nails the color for a landscape shot I usually just turn off all sharpening / noise reduction, export a TIFF and then sharpen it in LR or PS.
LR reacts to highlight clipping slightly better, the highlight slider is often producing ever so slightly better results over C1. There are also some tools that I hugely prefer in LR (spot removal, cropping, user presets, curves)
Others have mentioned that one is slower than another. With my lossless 24Mpx raw files (50mb ea) the difference is negligible on my PC, fast enough even with thousands of files processed in one sitting. I'm not sure about the exporting speed, I usually leave my PC immediately upon clicking export ..
Jan 02, 2020 at 02:32 PM
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