![]() ![]() This has benefits in excellent library management (in Lightroom, anyway), but can sometimes limit the tools a bit or make too many assumptions about what users want/need, and they’re primarily focused on profiting for their shareholders. These are good too, and while these corporations have a background in image softwares, they’re primarily profit-driven and so focus on delivering to the broadest constituency. Then, there are the for-profit offerings from Adobe and Corel. I’m not sure why, but RawTherapee has no library, nor does LightZone, and the one in darktable is strange and hard to use-it seems to be little more than a front end for the file system, but one without any visible structure. Strangely, these are often a bit lacking in the library department. Open source software developers tend to be photographers or image enthusiasts in addition to coders, and therefore build in things that they find useful or have a need for. As I showed in earlier reviews, the Open Source softwares are no slouches in the image-manipulation department and the major commercial offerings have money (and, in some cases) strong brand recognition behind them. Will these tests verify that result? Allahu Alim.Ĭ1P started providing support for other camera manufacturers some time ago and introduced a catalog structure in version 7, so this puts it in a bit of a different league than other softwares tested here. If you surf the comment sections of Lightroom and other software reviews (I don’t recommend it, and you won’t find any here, since no one comments here) you’ll invariably see claims that C1P produces superior results to Lightroom and other softwares. ![]() It has excellent tethering support and this interesting and useful-sounding way of dealing with images called ‘Sessions,’ which I may or may not (will not, it ends up) go into later. How does it measure up? Well, read on and find out… General CommentsĬapture One (hereafter ‘C1P’) is made by Phase One-makers of medium format digital cameras and backs-and was originally designed to be used with files from their backs in studio settings. Then, while trying-and failing-to come to a decision about Lightroom CC or 6, and after running across 8 or 10 articles and comments about Capture One and its purportedly superior RAW conversion, I decided to give it a try. It currently doesn’t support files from the Olympus C5050, a 13 year old camera that I enjoy playing with from time to time, and so it was automatically excluded from consideration. To be perfectly honest, I had no plans to test Capture One. It can’t have been easy over the past little while, as I am all too aware of myself, so a big shout out for getting a new version out.Program: Capture One Pro 8 (8.3.3) Platforms Tested Available: Mac, Windows Price: $299 Installation: Very usual. It’s been a challenging time for small independent developers, and I hope people continue to support Brian and co. Sony: A7 IV, A7R IVA, A7R IIIA, ZV-E10 and ILME-FX3.Iridient Developer was also updated with new camera support including: 5 adjustment levels (up from 3) for sharpening and noise reduction adjustments, plus elimination of the “default” option that mostly caused confusion.įor more details visit the Iridient Digital website.Improved luminance and color noise reduction algorithms.New option to automatically taper sharpening strength based on image ISO.New Sharpening Masking adjustment to allow for more selective sharpening of edge and detailed areas.A new preferences dialog for the Lightroom plug-in that allows for customization of the file name suffix/prefix and sub-folder when using the plug-in.The ability to save settings presets to file. ![]() Support for X-E4, GFX 50S II, GFX 100S and X-T30 II.30-50% faster processing for most operations on the M1 family of Macs.Here’s a rundown of what’s in the new version: Luckily my fears were unnecessary, and there is now a new version (Version 2.01) which brings support for all of the recent Fujifilm cameras as well as native Apple silicon compatibility. Some users had also written to me expressing their concern. It’s been quite a while since we got an update to Iridient X-Transformer, and I was beginning to get a bit worried about the future of the software. ![]()
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