3/16/2023 0 Comments Capture one vs lightroomImages come in a touch sharper with a touch more detail usually with Capture One, except for that Canon sample for some reason. At least in these samples, but this is going to be a matter of taste. I like the Capture One colors a little more with Nikon, with Canon I prefer the Colors of LR, with Fujifilm I prefer the Colors of LR and with Sony they are very similar. The default output of Capture One, in my opinion, is just a hair better by default with some of the camera brands. But again, you could always use Capture One with Photoshop. If you bundle LR+Photoshop then Capture One loses that advantage. Is Capture One better than Lightroom? It depends, it is more powerful but more complicated. The Capture One default noise reduction looks too aggressive and the EOS R image with Lightroom on the left looks much better. Here is a straight out of camera RAW samples at 100% crop. I’ll post these straight out of camera RAW samples for those of you who are interested in batch processing. Let’s look at some comparisons between each brand. You can get Lightroom matching pretty close, but you do have to noodle sharpness and noise reduction. I feel like Capture One applies this noise reduction to everything which can make the images slightly softer sometimes, but it does seem like the noise reduction retains a little more detail by default. The Lightroom bundle with Photoshop is also priced very reasonable and the Lightroom + Photoshop bundle is more powerful, although Capture One standalone is more powerful than Lightroom since Capture One has more color controls. I think that Lightroom is more intuitive and I like their catalog design more and I like the different developer modules, for Library, Develop, Print, Web etc. Lightroom also automatically loads in all the camera settings for the Nikon Z cameras. Lightroom gives you the camera colors for every brand. Some say the Capture One default look is better. In Lightroom, you almost always have to tweak just a little to match results.Ĭapture One also will allow you to load the camera profiles for Fujifilm, but not for the other brands. Capture One typically does a better default noise reduction with some nice sharpness applied. I don’t see the difference as much with other camera brands and actually Capture One sometimes looks worst to me, but it depends on how much noise is in the image and what ISO you’re at. Keep in mind their GFX cameras are not X-Trans, neither is the X-T200 or X-A7 so they will perform well in Lightroom. You can tune Lightroom and Photoshop to get almost as good of an initial image here, but Capture One is doing some sort of noise reduction trick for the X-Trans files, I would say it’s not game-changing, but it will make your life easier and save you time if you’re shooting high-end work with Fujifilm X-Trans cameras. It comes at the cost of slightly waxier skin tones but it does look a little nicer. Capture One corrects for this noise pattern a little better and pulls out slightly more detail. Since Fujifilm uses the X-Trans sensor, you often get a strange noise pattern to the images. It used to be that Capture One did some things like highlight recovery better, but Adobe has improved here over the years. Lightroom gives you access to all the cameras color profiles, Capture One only gives you access to Fujifilm film simulators. If you like grain (I do) Capture One gives you way more control over the grain style. Lightroom does HDR merging and Panorama Stitching, Capture One does not. Lightroom does Collections, Capture one does Albums. Lightroom has that sweet super easy to use Catalog, although Capture One’s catalog isn’t so bad either. Capture One has color wheels, color curves, color levels, Lightroom just has one set of curves but it has camera calibration tools which are very powerful. Both programs have very different strengths and weaknesses. I’ve been testing the two programs back and forth and I have to say the better program really depends on what you want. I will summarize since I can’t get too deep into all the features of each program in a written review, it would take forever, but mainly we are going to look at some straight out of camera samples and compare the default RAW converter process.Ĭapture One vs Lightroom | Best Raw Converter All you hear about is how much better Capture One is than Lightroom, but is this true for every brand of camera? Does capture one handle X-Trans better and are Capture One’s colors better?
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