tobey bilek Posted May 21, 2012 Share #1 Posted May 21, 2012 Advertisement (gone after registration) Can anyone compare with CS6 or LR4 results with Capture 1. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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archi4 Posted May 21, 2012 Share #2 Posted May 21, 2012 I'm sorry if it isn't very helpful, but I believe you can best try them out yourself, CS6 and LR4 both use the same Adobe Camera Raw, so you could download the trial versions of Capture One and CS6 and compare using your own images. I personally switch depending on the subject (often but not always using Capture One for portraits) Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
gdb Posted May 23, 2012 Share #3 Posted May 23, 2012 For me, Capture One Pro is unbeatable for sharpness processing. As it is (for me...) far superior to Lightroom, I only process my DNGs in C1, and then do the rest in Photoshop (CS6 seems a fantastic upgrade). But the frustration is great with the impossibility to completely process S2 files because the camera and lens profiles are not recognized in C1... I see no reason, since all other Leica profiles are recognized. Can anyone explain ? Gérard Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
mdt2 Posted May 28, 2012 Share #4 Posted May 28, 2012 I am a recent convert to Capture One. I have found it's interface and corresponding workflow very logical. The results I have been able to obtain from my M9's .DNG files have been exquisite. However to each his/her own and what one person likes the other one does not. -Mike Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
esquire53 Posted May 29, 2012 Share #5 Posted May 29, 2012 I like certain aspects of the raw conversion by C1, but the NIK plug ins don't exists in C1, so you need either LR or Aperture (MAC) if you want their plug ins... C1 is very powerful and nice with 2 screens. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
MarkP Posted July 29, 2012 Share #6 Posted July 29, 2012 I have been using LR3/4 as my raw converter for about two years, and then finishing in Photoshop. My NEC MultiSync PA241w is properly colour-calibrated. I have just had great difficulties processing a photograph of two nieces at a wedding. They were photographed in partial shade under a tree, with late afternoon golden sunlight coming in under the tree. One has fair and the other normal skin. Processing in LR4 and PS drove me up the wall, couldn't get the skin tones right. In frustration I upgraded to C1 Pro v5 to v6 and opened the file. I was astounded how much better the file looked even before I touched it. By the time I'd finished (a bit slowly as I'd not used C1 for some time) it barely needed any work in PS. Although I will continue to use LR for cataloguing and B&W I will now do all of my colour work in C1. Have others found especially skin tones much better in C1? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luke_Miller Posted July 30, 2012 Share #7 Posted July 30, 2012 Advertisement (gone after registration) Have others found especially skin tones much better in C1? I do tend to prefer the skin tones from C1, although the gap with Lightroom is now very small. This is especially true when I use my own profiles created in the DNG profile editor. That said, I find that the the new LR4 2012 develop process gives me better ability to correct for signifcant exposure issues in an image. I also prefer Lightroom's noise reduction to that of C1. New to LR4 is the ability to use white balance tools on a brushed in or gradient layer. I find this very useful since I often shoot in mixed lighting. All things considered I find the image adjustment tools in C1 more intuitive, but tend to be more efficient with those in Lightroom (due primarily, I expect, to having more experience with Lightroom). In general I can achieve the same results with either except when I have really missed the exposure Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
swamiji Posted August 2, 2012 Share #8 Posted August 2, 2012 I like certain aspects of the raw conversion by C1, but the NIK plug ins don't exists in C1, so you need either LR or Aperture (MAC) if you want their plug ins... C1 is very powerful and nice with 2 screens. This simply is untrue! It is true the plugin concept does not exist in C1, but you can create a tiff and open it in any of the NIK suite. This is the same process that LR uses under the covers, you just have to create a recipe to do the same thing. Then it's just as easy and you have more control. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jaapv Posted August 2, 2012 Share #9 Posted August 2, 2012 That is the consensus on C1. It is slightly better on fine structures too. Have others found especially skin tones much better in C1? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
mweiner Posted August 3, 2012 Share #10 Posted August 3, 2012 This simply is untrue! It is true the plugin concept does not exist in C1, but you can create a tiff and open it in any of the NIK suite. This is the same process that LR uses under the covers, you just have to create a recipe to do the same thing. Then it's just as easy and you have more control. I tried this and it didn't work. On Mountain Lion, I re-downloaded the EFEX Pro 2 version 2.004 and have it in my apps folder. When I click on it, the EFEX window comes up but I can find no way to open any file with it. Nothing works, not even the 'cancel' button nor the 'Silver EFEX Pro' item in the menu bar. The only way to quit is to close the window. Using PS CS5 and the EFEX Pro 2 plug in does work. I sort of vaguely remember that maybe there was a free standing version of the EFEX, but I didn't see anything about it on their site. What am I missing. Michael Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
swamiji Posted August 4, 2012 Share #11 Posted August 4, 2012 It was news to me, I received an email from C1 saying they are partnering with NIK software. There was a link in the email pointing to a video. As a side comment they said how to set it up. But basically I created a recipe, created a tiff file, with an open of the NIK software of choice in the recipe and it worked (the option is near the bottom of the recipe, it's a drop down that will include the available software), so I set up several. So to access you just process the recipe. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
mweiner Posted August 4, 2012 Share #12 Posted August 4, 2012 Oh! I didn't understand what you meant by 'recipe', but then I figured out you were talking about the 'process' recipes' for output. Sure enough there is an 'open with' and when I specified the silver efex application it worked like a charm. After you do the nik adjustments and save the file, efex disappears and you are right back in C1 and have a nice black and white tif in your 'output' directory. Now I don't have to start up photoshop and I'll use Silver EFEX and lot more. Thanks for the tip. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
DES Posted August 4, 2012 Share #13 Posted August 4, 2012 Oh! I didn't understand what you meant by 'recipe', but then I figured out you were talking about the 'process' recipes' for output. Well you have lost me????? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
swamiji Posted August 4, 2012 Share #14 Posted August 4, 2012 Well you have lost me????? In this case "process" is C1 word for export. A "recipe" is the definition of that export. In the recipe you specify file type, quality, compression, output application, etc.. These are all in the Manuel. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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