Can't say how they compare, but being a user of Capture One LE, I can give you my rough take. The first time I tried Capture One, I wasn't that excited about it. It seemed fine, but nothing out of the ordinary. What I had done, was taken just a couple of images and played around with it. It wasn't until later that I decided to give it one more go, that I worked on an entire family portrait session (about 70 frames) that I discovered where the real strength of it was. It is really designed as a batch system with fine controls. Converting one at a time, is no better than other tools. But when you load up a whole batch, then it starts to shine. Basically, by batch, I mean one photo session - so if you shoot portraits or weddings or events where you will have lots of pictures with pretty much the same lighting, you can pick the first one and get it adjusted, then select others with the same basic settings and apply all your changes to them. Then you can very quickly, click on each picture and see the adjustments on it and possibly override slightly. When you are ready, just have it convert them all and you are about done.
When I started using it, Adobe didn't have their workflow down very well - much more disjointed and RSE and Bibble didn't exist. I think all the other players have put forth much better workflow than they did in the past, so the differences may be much smaller than they were when I started doing RAW in earnest. Since I do lots of event stuff where Capture One is such a natural, as I have looked at the others, they haven't had anything that made me want to change. I can say that if I were shooting in a more casual way (smaller groups of similar shots), that one of the other products might have a better workflow for that. I seem to recall that RSE had some kind of quick grading system for you to quickly sort the best from the medium to bad and then work within those sortings. Anyway, I hope this helps you along. -- Best regards, Bruce Sunday, July 16, 2006, 3:04:56 AM, you wrote: BW> Hi, BW> how does Capture One LE compare with ACR? I don't have PS CS2 (yet?) BW> as I'm still looking at the various options that are available. So I BW> haven't used ACR, but I have downloaded the trial version of Capture BW> One LE and it seems at first glance to be pretty good. BW> One thing I don't much like about it is that it only reads RAW, not BW> TIFF as far as I can tell. This is a disadvantage for me because I BW> have a lot of film to scan, which I save in Vuescan's raw TIFF format, BW> and then use the same workflow for both camera and scanned inputs - I BW> don't want to be switching tools and doing significantly different BW> things just because the pictures come from a different source. BW> So, does ACR read and operate on TIFFs as well as RAW? BW> -- BW> Thanks, BW> Bob -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
