Lightroom or Capture one?

BigAl007 wrote in post #18716062
In my experience Numbers was just simply bad at converting any of my Excel 2007 spreadsheets. It managed to lose all of the dynamic formatting, and quite a bit of the static formatting. Honestly it really felt like I might as well have just exported the thing as a CSV file. Oh and no way to bring the data correctly back into Excel on my windows machine. I actually ended up printing out the data I would need for any particular days onsite work, then writing the changes up on the paper, then adding it back to the spreadsheet in the evening.

I think I might have mentioned this before, but if you are using Lr, you never get Canon colours. Adobe built their original "Camera Matching Profiles", the ones labeled Camera xxxxx to try to be a close approximation to in built conversion profiles in the various cameras. This was Adobe's first foray into trying to get closer to producing a default image that was closer to what many would consider usable. The Adobe xxxxx profiles on the other hand are an effort to try to produce a set of profiles that will produce relatively closely matching images across a range of different camera manufactures cameras. These also are really solely Adobe colours though.

Alan

I know. I'm not going to get Canon colours with anything other than Canon but close enough is all I need. If I need accurate colour I'll use the ColourChecker. Skin tones looked very good to me when I used it.

BigAl007 wrote in post #18716062
In my experience Numbers was just simply bad at converting any of my Excel 2007 spreadsheets. It managed to lose all of the dynamic formatting, and quite a bit of the static formatting. Honestly it really felt like I might as well have just exported the thing as a CSV file. Oh and no way to bring the data correctly back into Excel on my windows machine. I actually ended up printing out the data I would need for any particular days onsite work, then writing the changes up on the paper, then adding it back to the spreadsheet in the evening.

I think I might have mentioned this before, but if you are using Lr, you never get Canon colours. Adobe built their original "Camera Matching Profiles", the ones labeled Camera xxxxx to try to be a close approximation to in built conversion profiles in the various cameras. This was Adobe's first foray into trying to get closer to producing a default image that was closer to what many would consider usable. The Adobe xxxxx profiles on the other hand are an effort to try to produce a set of profiles that will produce relatively closely matching images across a range of different camera manufactures cameras. These also are really solely Adobe colours though.

Alan

I said I'd never to another shoot event but I couldn't say no to my best friends daughter. This shot could had had a little more exposure but that is not what the is about. The flash batteries died about 10 shots later and far too soon. I reconditioned them the day before but they have sat for too long I think. I'm really of out of practise as well.

Canon is better but LR is remarkably close which was what this post is about. Both are using Canon Portrait and no PP expect for NR and sharpening. The left exported from DPP and the right from LR. During PP I desaturated the skin tones a tad for this shot as I prefer a cleaner look. I love LR's little H/S/L wheel.

If I they offered Canon's Engine (DLO too) with LR/PS bells and whistles I'd pay good money for it. I have no doubt C1 would render beautiful colours as well as my tests showed that.

I don't need that level of colour. Last thing on my list. I'm not shooting magazine covers. I like Canon colours and I simulated a few to match. I had to stop using Canon profiles because Auto Tone works better with Adobe colours. I also use two plugins that help me control Auto Tone and one where I can enter a range of NR and ISO values and it applies NR using a logarithmic formula. After importing I can export a good looking product in less than 10 seconds - if I need to. I normally edit more.

Since we are comparing I find LR gives be better fine detail which is more important to me, especially for my crops. That was my conclusion last October and someone posted this a few months.

This is from about 5 years ago.