Capture One 4.8 Pro - Impressed but not that impressed!

Am I missing something, its good very much like DPP with more tabs, a bit more control on each tab. It extends itself with the HDR highlight/shadow recovery options, and nice straightening tool, and instead of a sharpness slider it has USM settings. Some generic lens fix stuff too. Videos on there site are great for showing it off.

Image quailty is excellent when using sharpening, better than DPP. But when not using sharpening such as when shooting for stock, its no better than DPP. Its noise reduction is acceptable.

That's it for €300. I'm expecting more than that. At the moment its convinced me its worth about €70. I figured maybe the image capture part is good, tried it and its way worse than the capture software that came with the 40d. I could not adjust exposure settings from the PC other than ISO (camera on M) and I could not change the focus from the pc or use live-view via the PC.

The crop tool and its interaction with the rotation tool is very nice, curves are fine but the window is too small to be really usefull. I like how you can pick a target skin tone instead of a target white balance, thats a cool feature.

Basically I'm saying I like pro but not €300 like, non pro looses a few features and is still €100. Am I mad? Am I missing something? Have I not seen the killer must have feature yet?

Do you need the Pro version? - I use the 'normal' version personally, and I cannot see the Pro version being worth the large amount of extra money for my usage.
I updated to 4.8 yesterday (from 4.7), I think it's just a bug fix/new camera support update.

NinetyEight wrote in post #7838832
Do you need the Pro version? - I use the 'normal' version personally, and I cannot see the Pro version being worth the large amount of extra money for my usage.
I updated to 4.8 yesterday (from 4.7), I think it's just a bug fix/new camera support update.

Well the lens correction is pretty nice, the customizable interface is nice, clarity slider is nice, profiles are nice, crop tool seems a bit more flexible. I think pro can edit .jpg also.

I guess I want the pro features in the non-pro price range. Having used it a bit more (gone through 200 photos now) I can see that its fantastic at quickly processing lots and lots of photos. I'm warming up to it.

Yes, the lens distortion looks pretty useful but not sure if it has specific canon lenses listed? (DPP is good for this)

I believe the customizable interface is on the version for the Mac only, I have a PC so can't use this feature - I think a lot of people have been caught out with this. jpeg/tiff editing is available in the 'normal' version by the way.

I have recently swapped from Lightroom (2.3) - I got fed up with crappy colours. C1 really does score well with white balance, particularly on skin-tones IMO.

Agree about the curves though, the adjustment box could be bigger!

As you say, for that amount of money the software has to be unique from start to finish, offering something no other software does. Based on what you have written I certainly would not consider buying it when I already have DPP and Photoshop.

Well I have the 30 day trial and I can switch between pro/non-pro during the trial period, it has customisable interface on windows in pro but not non-pro. That another thing in pro, you have a white balance dropper but you also have a skin tone dropper.

I don't use Canon lenses so DPP is no good to me for that. The corrections in Capture One Pro, work with any lens and you can save them. I am warming to it a lot, but still not €300 warm

Interface with one tweak being applied to 3 other shots,

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