Capture 1 and Adobe Camera Raw

[yb98]

which is better ? capture one or adobe CS camera raw ?
is capture 1 working with canon powershot S30 Raw files ?
Thanks

[Jim Larson]

Nope. Capture One does not do "S" camera files (don't think it does "G" cameras either.)

Will photoshop handle these RAW files?

[drisley]

Photoshop Raw will handle the S and G series Raw files.

"Among the more prominent are Canon's EOS-1D/1Ds/D60 and PowerShots 600/A5/A50/G1/G2/G3/S30/S40/S45/Pro70/Pro90IS; Kodak's 14n; Fujifilm's FinePix S2 Pro; Minolta's DiMAGE 5/7/7i/7Hi; Nikon's D1/DH/D1x/D100 and Coolpix 5000/5700; and Olympus' E-10/E-20N and C-5050 Zoom."

[Cordell]

I'm not sure you should ask which one is better. They both do pretty much the same thing in terms of RAW conversion adjustments. The issue with these (again, in terms of RAW conversion) is workflow. Anyone who has used C1 for a period of time will probably share with you that it is great for the workflow.

Personally, I like C1 better. I probably say that because the RAW conversion process has been around longer and that is where I started. I have used PS as an application longer, but it did not always process RAW photos. I would first use C1 for RAW image editing, save as TIFF or JPEG, and do other photo-editing task on the TIFF or JPEG as needed in PS. Many times I did not even need to use PS.

Now some new users may prefer the PS process over C1. Again, that could be because that is where they started and is familar with it's workflow.

Some tech heads on here and around the net will get into the technologically differences between the two apps. Why bother. The photograph and workflow is the issue. Not the code.

[drisley]

Personally, I like C1.
I'm actually not sure if C1 uses the canon conversion engine or not, but Photoshop CS doesn't.
I find the colours a tad off in the Photoshop CS conversion, and, although it does a good job at maintaining shadows, it tends to blow out the highlights.
I only used the Photoshop conversion with my G3 Raws, so I'm not sure how it compares using a DRebel, or other EOS digital

[Morden]

I'm actually not sure if C1 uses the canon conversion engine or not
I believe that it is a proprietary conversion algorithm. The way that they have implemented it, converting images "in the background" whilst you work on the next one(s) is wonderful for streamlining workflow.

[Belmondo]

There's nothing I did in C1 that I can't do in Phtoshop CS. Since it's now all being done in the same program, it does save steps and time.

I don't see a lot of difference in the results.

Tom

[msnow]

As I understand it, the Canon File Viewer Utility (FVU) and Breezebrowser both convert using the Canon code (SDK or Software Development Kit). Capture One and Photoshop RAW use their own code. There are a couple of extra features you get from PS and C1 that you can't get with the utilities but they all seem to do a pretty decent job. I prefer C1 for the extra features (including cropping) and the workflow. Like people have said here, I then save as TIFF and do the further post processing in PS but I can understand the simplicity if someone wanted to do it all in PS.