P1505 Posted June 27, 2016 Share #1 Posted June 27, 2016 Advertisement (gone after registration) Hello. I've been reading everything I can find about this. I own Lightroom because I've been using it for ages and it comes with CC which work buys me. But a demo of Capture One for X100 files shoes that Lightroom is a tad awful at dealing with Fuji raw files. Iridient seems to win that battle. I wonder what works best for Leica M9 files? I've found a few threads where people discuss Capture One, but they are all old from the Lightroom 4 days. What do you all find for RAW conversion gives the most natural results? I don't care about catalogue functions right now as I can carry on using Lightroom for that. Cheers. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Advertisement Posted June 27, 2016 Posted June 27, 2016 Hi P1505, Take a look here Lightroom or Capture One or Iridient or...?. I'm sure you'll find what you were looking for!
Jeff S Posted June 27, 2016 Share #2 Posted June 27, 2016 Tastes...and images...vary. Why not download a free 30 day trial and determine for yourself? Jeff Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
P1505 Posted June 27, 2016 Author Share #3 Posted June 27, 2016 Hi. I will, I just wondered what the consensus was. Fir the Fuji X range there are clear winners, I wondered if the same was true here. I'll report back. Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeff S Posted June 27, 2016 Share #4 Posted June 27, 2016 (edited) Kind of like asking about Canon vs Nikon vs other.....opinions on all sides here. Folks generally like what they get used to. I like LR, but many here do not (for differing reasons, including general interface). (But I like ImagePrint better than LR for controlling my print driver.) Workflows differ greatly, including the use of custom profiles and pre-sets, regardless of software chosen. If you search Capture One vs Lightroom, etc., you'll get a bunch of threads. Jeff Edited June 27, 2016 by Jeff S Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ramarren Posted June 27, 2016 Share #5 Posted June 27, 2016 Hi. I will, I just wondered what the consensus was. Fir the Fuji X range there are clear winners, I wondered if the same was true here. I'll report back. IMO, that's the difficulty with these kinds of questions: There is no consensus. Iridient, Capture One, Lightroom, and all the others each have a different set of strengths and weaknesses. One has better handling of Fuji, another has better camera calibration for a Leica, another has a better workflow for a particular kind of work. All produce, within limited degrees of freedom, the same quality output. Which of them is best for you depends on what you do, what kind of camera you shoot, how you like to work, and what your personal criteria for output quality might be. The only way to determine the answer to your question is to experiment with at least two that look interesting to you, and see if they get what you like. They've all got extended use trials available—you have to determine which works best for you, your camera, your subject matter, and your workflow. No one else can answer that for you. Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
P1505 Posted June 28, 2016 Author Share #6 Posted June 28, 2016 Fair points. I spent last night doing some quick comparisons with an M9 file form Leica. Out of all of the RAW developers I preferred the look from SilkyPix, which amazed me. A few setting tweaks and it gave a much more natural result, whilst still sharp, than the others. I'll keep testing for the remainder of the demos and then choose to buy or not. I do remember when I bough the first X100 (I was the first person in the UK to receive one after the test units went out, long story hidden in that sentence) and SilkyPix came bundled. It was awful but there was no other option. A while back I was looking at those early shots and they had something very natural about them. It will be interesting to see what software works with my style of photography. And we all thought digital would be simpler than the wet room Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
terrycym Posted June 28, 2016 Share #7 Posted June 28, 2016 Advertisement (gone after registration) Another option is DxO Optics Pro. I've been using it for quite a few years now and it just gets better & better. http://www.dxo.com/us/photography/tutorials Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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