![]() CAPTURE ONE LIGHTROOM SOFTWARECamera manufacturers think they are better off bundling their own proprietary software with their cameras, but all they do is end up creating unusable trash that nobody wants to use. Unfortunately, this is where camera manufacturers have always continuously failed, making it extremely frustrating for software companies to be able to support them. It is important to understand that for hardware and software to work well with each other, camera manufacturers have to work close with post-processing software companies in order to have full, proper support. Because of this, it is wise to assess and fully understand risks associated with buying into a camera system. If post-processing software has very limited or even worse, no support for a given camera, switching camera systems might have bad future implications, costing a lot of time, frustration and money in the long run. This means that one should not forget to look at camera support in post-processing software. When choosing any camera system, photographers must not only pay close attention to the hardware ecosystem, but also software and support options. Camera Ecosystem vs Post-Processing Software And with the arrival of 100+ MP sensors in 2018, the cost of current generation medium format cameras is going to decline even further (especially on the used market), which means that more photographers will be shooting with medium format systems in the future. With the recent price adjustments that the Pentax 645Z and the Fuji GFX 50S have seen ( $1,500 off 645Z and $1,000 off GFX 50S kit + big GF lens discounts), the cost of owning a medium format system is getting lower year after year. Although these are still fairly expensive options, many photographers who want to move up in quality from full-frame are most likely going to choose between these three systems. Add the well-established Pentax 645Z DSLR and you have a total of three players in the “crop medium format” market. Hasselblad was the first to announce its X1D-50c (see my Hasselblad X1D-50c Review) and Fuji followed suit with the GFX 50S (see my in-depth Fuji GFX 50S Review). Thanks to Hasselblad and Fuji, we now have several mirrorless medium format systems at sub-$10K prices. CAPTURE ONE LIGHTROOM PROCapture One Pro 11: Supported Medium Format Systems.Camera Ecosystem vs Post-Processing Software.For this reason alone, Capture One could never replace Lightroom as post-processing software for many photographers out there. After looking at the release notes of Capture One Pro 11, I came to conclusion that Phase One has no plans to support the GFX 50S or any other medium format camera on the market to protect its own medium format system. However, the biggest reason why I have not been able to fully transition, is the lack of Fuji GFX 50S camera support, something I was hoping I would see in the new version of Capture One 11 that was just announced today. Because of this, I have been running Capture One for some time now, hoping that I can fully transition to it at some point in the future. Some of Capture One Pro’s capabilities (such as color adjustments, adjustment layers, etc) are light years ahead of Lightroom, and performance-wise, Lightroom has only been getting worse year after year, with things like adjustment brush slowing down even some of the most powerful desktop computers, whereas you can stack layers and layers of adjustments on images in Capture One without slowing anything down. For the past few years, I have owned Phase One’s Capture One Pro software, which I found to be very capable when it comes to post-processing images. As a result, a number of us (including myself) have been looking for alternative post-processing tools that can replace Lightroom completely. Many photographers, including our team at PL, have been frustrated with Adobe’s latest move to discontinue the standalone version of Lightroom, something Adobe said it would not do in the past. ![]()
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