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With new releases in RAW processing software, I decided to take a look at the newest professional programs and see how they measure up in terms of image quality, features, UI and speed. The results will surprise you.
Second of all, I initially had some nice architectural pictures from Milan and Paris that were taken with a compact camera (a perfect test for noise reduction, chromatic aberrations and so on). Again, some programs (DXO and Capture One) did not support it.
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Capture One has a very straightforward way for import and export, focusing on simplicity. I might add that tethered shooting is perfectly integrated in the interface, a bonus for studio photographers. Capture One is more picky about direct camera support, but it does support DNG, so you can always convert to DNG first and then import.
Lightroom throws more contrast; at least for my camera it has the tendency for more reddish skin, which I dislike. I know I can make my own color profiles (and I have), but how many users will?
Capture One has its fans too. It has some very professional features but its scope is limited. I would recommend it for professional studio photographers who worry more about correct colors than high ISO performance.
What I do not find in your review is customer friendly use of the different software.
Capture, Lightroom are easy to work with.
DXO used to be terrible but the latest version (DXO 6) has improved a lot. It still does take a lot of time to start DXO (even on a fast computer) but the interface is very customer friendly and the results (even if you must be patient) are very good. Unfortunately it is still not possible to print with DXO.
Bibble is a disaster. The menus are ridiculous complicated and you have to be of an academic level to understand how to use it.
Printing is possible but with terrible results.
At least with my Ricoh GX200 RAW files I get better, more detailed conversions using the free (and soon to be open-sourced) RawTherapee 2.4.1 than I do with Lightroom 3, Capture One 5 and some other well known converters (SILKYPIX, Lightzone).
I really enjoyed your review of these products. One of the items you purposefully skipped over is the relative performance of these products. Since these products are intended to improve and optimize workflow efficiency, how well they perform in a real world workflow example is an imprtant consideration. I am currently Beta Testing Lightroom 3 and Bibble 5. In addition, I have also used Lightroom 2. The following is an article I posted on the Lightroom forum:
I have used ACD Pro 3 and Photoshop CS4 as well as Lightroom. ACD Pro3 supports many more formats than almost any other program I have used, including DNG. It is fast, includes an asset managment module, allows for both non-destructive and pixel level edits, and has a very easy to use Web publishing module, all at a price which is one third of Lightroom.
On another note, it appears that Adobe is well aware of the performance issues with rendering 1:1 in LR3 Beta. It will be interesting to see how much the performance is improved when they go into production, as the beta performance makes LR3 unusable for efficient workflow in my opinion.
In his comparison C1 5 is clearly superior in terms of resolving details to LR 3.
He was using very detailed high resolution charts recorded with a Leica M9, and his review motivated me to make comparisons, again with 160 ASA DNG files from a Leica taken under optimal conditions, landscape sunshine. I can support his conclusion, C1 gives more detailed and sharper images.
Capture One is a very capable program designed for studio shooting under optimal conditions (top of the line lens, low ISO, carefully-controlled lighting). For a studio photographer, the tethered shooting integration and focus checker alone may be worth the price of C1.
In my test, I selected on purpose some challenging, real-world situations to stress the programs and find their weaknesses. I could have used a $2000 lens for razor-sharp, no-fringing, perfect images; instead I used an assortment of new and old lenses and two dSLR (an older entry-level and a new advanced one).
I totally agree, LR is the best choice under most conditions. You performed a very nice and helpful comparison. And you wrote in the introduction, that you selected on purpose challenging, real world situations. On the other hand, getting the best resolution and details out of images taken under good conditions is also a challenging situation, and I would guess that many people who are reading comparison on raw converters are also exactly interested in this.
Thank you for this delightful and an informative article on the RAW giants. LR and C1 are like like the Nikons and the Canons of the RAW just because of the money they have and the professional zealots heralding and serving as poster people.
Then LR3 (Adobe) will really shine and I think they will win even more customers just because Adobe >> CaptureOne in regard to financial resources and programmers. Thank you for your time sir and I have an immense reverence for you and your work. Reading your article, I was compelled to try DXO Optics 6 and oh-my-goodness, its grotesque and unintuitive GUI turned me off.
I have been a very happy user of C1 standard until C1 5 Pro has come out. As with many other posters, because of the price I am looking at alternatives. I also have in the past year started shooting with wider angle (14-24 FX f2.8 + D700 Nikon), and recently started experimenting with HDR (decided on Photomatix, for now. Best HDR is a very similar situation, each has its strength, no one does it all). As you said, there is no one simple solution, DxO is absolutely unparalleled in optical correction. I played with the optical correction in C1 Pro 5, but it is not up to the same standards. I also have come to the same conclusion that Bibble takes the cake for noise reduction.
Finally, any comments on HDR? My limited experience has shown that it has promise, but a long way to go before all the problems are overcome. I have had success in bringing out detail in snow drifts simultaneously with jagged dark rocks that no amount of Highlight/Shadow in C1 or PS could come close to. On the other hand, aligning 7 exposures with moving subjects creates problems, noise is added, but most significantly it creates more macro effects such as subtle glows and shadows around masses.
Excellent review. I bought DxO 5 for the Mac recently, partly based on it having integration with Lightroom according to DxO. Having problems exporting the raw file from Lightroom to DxO, I just learned from DxO support that if you change the file name in any way when importing from the camera card (as in Lightroom, Photo Mechanic, whatever), you cannot then export an image from Lightroom to DxO- it will not be able to find the original file if it is changed from the name the camera gave it on capture. This is not useful, as far as I am concerned: you have to keep the meaningless camera-generated name rather than changing it to something useful/recognizable? While I like DxO, I will not change my workflow and give up renaming files. So DxO has become pretty much a no-go for me, sad to say.
Hello Armand,
I have had great pleasure reading your review.
I mainly shoot landscape and architecture.
Have been using Capture One Pro 5 with good results.
But I will now give DXO 6 a try.
I really appreciate the work you have done. It is very very good. I really look forward to a similar comparison of ACD-SEE Pro and Lightroom 3 from your side. I have tried C1, LR2, Acdsee pro and bibble 5. My experience is that for a workflow, the LR is simply amazing. However for viewing, exporting to flickr, and also color corrections, ACD-See pro is truly amazing and very fast. It is unfortunately slow on the exposure correction.
If in future you plan to do a comparison between the acdsee-pro and LR, please kindly elaborate on the detail extraction ability and sharpness of the two programs vis a vis each other. I understand by my experience that for sharpening the NIK application for LR is also good as per my experience.
Just for the information, I use the PEF raw files and when working on analog, I work on the Tiff files of 60mb each. I found LR2.0 takes time to build the catalog, but once its done, the processing is fast.
DxO being able to export DNG, do I understand correctly I could first correct distortions and perhaps sharpness in DxO, export DNG to Lightroom and still have a raw (12-bit) format to process in Lightroom (with the distortion correction written to the DNG)?
I then found DxO and thought it would be interesting to try. I put the same RAW photos through and then saw it had a LR button in it. SO I exported them to LR.
The combined time spent in LR after DxO was dramatically less than LR alone (and I made no lens corrections in the LR3 alone batch), and the kept finals were 11 through DxO and LR and one through LR alone.
My baseline workflow involves Adobe Bridge > ACR conversion (with color correction, exposure, and vibrancy tweaks) > Photoshop for automated lens correction via PTLens and automited sharpening via FocalBlade. Just like DxO, PTLens recognizes my LX3 (along with many other cameras and lenses including my seven year old Canon G3) and uses its EXIF info to correct the remaining lens distortion that ACR left in the RAW file. Its advantage is that it seems to support both more and older cameras than DxO and works neatly as a Photoshop plugin.
I also liked the punchy contrast, sharpening, and lighting effects automatically built into DxO. Compared to my baseline ACR/Photoshop conversions they are definitely more detailed and appear to extract more resolution from the LX3 RAW files. I will have to do more testing to see if additional sharpening and contrast in Photoshop can match the default DxO results.
Carl, you are correct. I was aware of this but I did not make it clear.
Still, generic DNG support was a constant request from the community, with heated discussions on Bibble forums. Considering that many users want it and that Capture One supports it, Bibble Las should seriously consider it.