I tried making multiple cloned variants with different B&W conversion settings to later mask out and blend in photoshop. When I compared exported tiffs processed in Lightroom to those processed in Capture 1, the later were all sharper, with less apparent sharpening artifacts, along with better contrast and mid-tone separation.Īfter lots of testing, I found that while the initial de-mosaic processing of Capture 1 is actually better, but the black and white conversion isn't as good as what I am able to achieve in either Lightroom or Photoshop. At first I was simply converting the NEF to DNG with Capture 1, and then imported and developed as normal in Lightroom. I think Capture 1 is a little clunky and the "development" stage can be unintuitive.
Capture one vs lightroom pro#
Capture One Pro vs Lightroomįortunately Capture One 7 can run on Snow Leopard. Now I needed an updated RAW converter that supported the new camera and was still able to support OS 10.6.8 (long story). I then got the new Nikon and have been relying on that more than shooting MF film/drum scanning. But the Phase One support folk are on the ball and over the last year or so it is clear that engineering are working hard on improving the software.I had been using Lightroom 3 for developing of raw files since 2010, and was fine for my mirrorless Sony Nex camera. Here is an example of processing an E-M5 high-ISO file in C1 and LR, where LR completely blows out the red channels due to the default saturation and Adobe Standard colour profile pushing the red tones far outside of the output sRGB space.Īfter processing a ton of examples like this from several different cameras, I think that I like C1's colour and UI better, while preferring LRs key-wording and indexing.Ĭ1 has quite a lot of quirks (mostly due to terminology) and bugs (for me, the inability to open 16 bit grayscale TIFF film scans.).
The differences are often camera specific, but I found that Lightroom tends to over-saturate its reds compared to C1. I have just switched to C1P from LR6, and wrote a long-ish review of the pros and cons ( here). Have you picked the Whitebalance from the same point on the 2 images? If not, you cannot compare them directly, other than concluding that LR and CO take different approaches to their respective defaults. a still life default, a food default, a portrait default). Once you get used to the basics consider a training class where you'll learn more advanced workflows like having multiple "defaults" which you can rapidly change between by keyboard shortcut depending on the subject matter (e.g. just turn the dials once and forget about it. It's like buying a set of really nice speakers and complaining that they don't boost the treble and bass as much out-of-the-box compared to a low-end set of speakers. Whether the universal-default-as-installed numbers suit you is more or less a crap shoot. The improvement in quality going from LR to C1 is in things like color discrimination (showing two slightly different colors as being different), color linearity (showing the same hue in a contrasty-light subject from shadow to highlight), detail extraction (pixel quality of detail, regardless of sharpening especially when using a good camera like a Phase One or Leaf back where there is more detail that can be extracted) etc. They will become the new "default" used any time a raw is seen for the first time. You'll never have to touch those controls again when importing or shooting tethered, unless you want to make further changes. There is no right or wrong in color, unless you are doing art reproduction or scientific studies.įind settings that suit your aesthetics and the needs of your clients, then use the in the top right of any given tool and select to save those as defaults. I double checked and as far as I can tell C1 is using the correct camera profile.įor those of you that have used both - do these results make sense? Could I be doing something wrong? I understand that I can adjust everything to my hearts content from here, but it doesn't seem worth switching over to C1 if LR looks better out of the box.
This is the untouched LR import (from tethered capture):Īnd this is the untouched C1 import (from card):
So I downloaded a trail of C1, ran a quick test, and saw the exact opposite (pardon the messy looking sandwiches): C1 also seemed to emphasize the reds a bit. I saw some pretty impressive side-by-sides: compared to LR, C1's unprocessed color corrects were richer, typically more saturated, had more pop. I've been considering switching from Lightroom to Capture One after reading many rave reviews on C1's superior color management out of the box.
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