Others will continue using Lightroom, as they are familiar, until they start making money from their photos. Some photographers will want more control, speed and functionality right out of the gate. Not only do you need to learn a new interface, possibly workflow, but you need to move images into a new program and start a new file management system. It can feel daunting to switch to a new editing program. When Should You Consider Switching to Capture One?
You’ve hit a ceiling with your current RAW editor and can’t quite finess your images to the full degree of control you’d like.
Which Photographers Would Benefit in Switching from Lightroom to Capture One?ĭo I think that every photographer should stop using Lightroom and switch to Capture One? No.ĭo I think that there is a point in the evolution of a professional photographers journey where they will benefit from using Capture One? Yes.īeginners, amateurs, food bloggers, professional photographers alike – consider trying Capture One if you feel the following: To answer the question is Capture One more professional than Lightroom? My answer is this:Ĭapture One is the professional industry standard RAW editor and it offers more control.
Lightroom on the other hand is designed for a wider audience, including non-professional picture takers or iPhone happy snappers. Professional’s do choose Capture One because of the degree of control it allows professional photographers and editors over their post-production. This is because it’s made for professionals and tailored to professional needs. It is true that Capture One is considered the professional industry-standard software. Because if you’re not using professional software, then what are you? But they would still tell me that Capture One was more professional than Lightroom.Īs a Lightroom user at the time, this made me feel ‘unprofessional’. Photographers, who mind you didn’t make money from their work, nor was their work always any good. In fact, people would tell me this for years. Capture One is more professional than Lightroom. I'll post my results here once I do it.You’ve probably heard this before. The question is how it will perform once there are a few hundred thousand images cataloged. Based on others' experiences I sort of expect C1 to fail but in talking with ON1 I think Photo Raw should be able to handle it. I plan to try a migration of my LR images to ON1 Photo Raw and C1 to see how they do. When key-wording and rating in PM, it writes to both the RAW and JPEG (I shoot raw+jpeg) which the LR import module does not do. I start my workflow in Photo Mechanic for a couple reasons: 1. I'm diligent about key-wording so I can find any image or shoot I need in a second or two. Similar to you, I have close to 300K images cataloged in LR as I have yet to find a better database. Sounds complicated but I have it setup automatically and it works flawlessly for me. I can then move the finished images to the library for cataloging, keywording etc. Back in LR, I then synch that folder and any jpegs and tiffs I generated are dropped in there.
Once I'm done processing in C1, I export into another folder called "Roundtrip from C1Pro which is also a default in C1pro and in LR. Then I open C1Pro and sync that folder which I have set as a preset in C1Pro. I have folders set up in LR (which are actually on my desktop) where I drop files into. My jpegs (from my GFX50r) are 40mb, and the TIFF's from raw are 310mb in size.
However, I use Capture One Pro for 95% of all my editing needs. I have over 250,000 images in LR right now. I use LR for minimal adjustments and mostly for the digital asset management.