Light Room2 vs Capture1 v4.8

[merock]

So I've heard really great things about Capture One RAW conversion, so I thought I would put it to a test and see for myself. These images are basically SOOC. There has been no "post" color correction etc done to either image. It was shot RAW one was brought into LR the other into Capture One. I then exported to photoshop, resized, converted to sRGB, cropped and added the text. Here are the final results:




IMHO Lightroom has more flexibility to its appliction, but this seems to do really well with tones, colors etc. Thoughts?

[zebulus]

I just started using Capture One, and I fell in love with it! Its an awesome program.

[Sonny]

Merock,

It took me a while to wrap my brain around LR. Not sure if you know this or not, but this explained it for me. I took this from another forum.

"The picture you see in LR is exactly the picture your camera sensor recorded. It's likely that you are used to seeing the preview on the camera display. That preview is not your RAW file, but a JPG which has been processed by the electronics inside your camera. Or, you may be using your camera manufacturer's proprietary RAW conversion software. That software has a post-processing advantage in that it can utilize proprietary 'secret' information embedded in RAW files, which is undocumented and unavailable to third party programs such as LR and ACR.

Additionally, most third party viewer/browser applications show you the embedded JPG preview rather than the actual RAW file contents. In fact, LR itself shows you that preview for a few seconds at first, until it has time to render a preview in accordance with your current develop settings.

When you import your RAW file, none of that proprietary in-camera processing is applied by Lightroom. To a certain extent, you have to do it yourself. That is the purpose of Develop Presets. It takes some getting used to, and some practice, and some homework to achieve consistently good results. The amazing flexibility of Lightroom comes with some costs in terms of effort."