Aperture to Capture One Pro - the switch

[jeffa4444]

Capture One Pro

The community needs to get behind Capture One or watch world domination by Adobe and be forced into subscription. I use LR5 its not intuitive like Aperture and Ive struggled with it I hate going in and out of Library.

One of the companies in the group I work for use Capture One Pro7 licenses for studio photographers and Ive been trying it. Yes adobe has some better features in LR5 but Capture One Pro7 is simple to use and simply the best raw converter at least with my Canon & Oly cameras.

If more people adopt it Nik Software & others will make plug-ins if its not supported adobe has won and watch prices sky rocket.

 

[MCAsan]

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The community needs to get behind Capture One or watch world domination by Adobe and be forced into subscription. I use LR5 its not intuitive like Aperture and Ive struggled with it I hate going in and out of Library.

One of the companies in the group I work for use Capture One Pro7 licenses for studio photographers and Ive been trying it. Yes adobe has some better features in LR5 but Capture One Pro7 is simple to use and simply the best raw converter at least with my Canon & Oly cameras.

If more people adopt it Nik Software & others will make plug-ins if its not supported adobe has won and watch prices sky rocket.

IMHO, the ball is not in the user community's court. The ball is firmly in the court of all photography apps makers who want to put on their big boys underwear and step up to completing with Adobe and Apple for the former Aperture and iPhoto users. Either they want to play in the big leagues, or they don't.

 

[seadragon]

The community needs to get behind Capture One or watch world domination by Adobe and be forced into subscription. I use LR5 its not intuitive like Aperture and Ive struggled with it I hate going in and out of Library.

One of the companies in the group I work for use Capture One Pro7 licenses for studio photographers and Ive been trying it. Yes adobe has some better features in LR5 but Capture One Pro7 is simple to use and simply the best raw converter at least with my Canon & Oly cameras.

If more people adopt it Nik Software & others will make plug-ins if its not supported adobe has won and watch prices sky rocket.

But, not all of the community likes Capture One Pro 7. I just removed the trial version from my hard drive. Didn't like the GUI at all. I'm sticking with PS/LR subscription.

 

[maflynn]

The community needs to get behind Capture One or watch world domination by Adobe and be forced into subscription.

I think you shouldn't pick a product because you either hate the competitor, or are afraid of a monopoly.

Rather you need to pick the best tool that fits your needs and budget. For its credit LR meets my needs, it does not fit my budget as I'm unwilling to embrace the pay as you go idea.

So that leaves me with using Aperture until I see what apple does, or use Capture One.

C1 has a lot going for it, and a number of criticisms as well. I think its a mistake to use C1 simply because its not adobe.

 

[netwalker]

Try the new version 8

Phase One just release Capture One Pro 8. It can read Aperture libraries and that seems to work quiet well.

They have also given the UI a slight facelift. Looks less ugly now.

I'll be using both in parallel now for the length of the trial. So far I like the new version a lot.

 

[v3rlon]

Tough decision for me:

Will Photos do plugins well enough soon enough? Will its imports be as good? Will it support tethered shooting? Will it - well, as quiet as Apple is about such things, who knows. I HOPE it is Aperture updated and ready for a bazillion plugins and extensions. I FEAR it is going to focus on a better marriage to snapshots of sushi to instagram and overlook the features I want.

Capture One has the best import of RAW images I know of.

Except maybe Capture NX, but that looks like it is close to abandonware. Capture NX-D looks more like View NX than capture anything.

LR has great plugin and Photoshop integration, but I less like their RAW imports. Adobe does seem to be the 400lb gorilla in the room though.

Darktable: Does anyone have experience with this? I am not opposed to FOSS software at all, but my experience with GIMP and Blender as opposed to PS/Pixelmator and Lightwave have generally been that I do not like the interface and workflow very much at all, regardless of the feature set.