[Leica] Lightroom or Capture One

[hopsternew at gmail.com (Geoff Hopkinson)]

Meino, LR3 has some neat refinements, however it is not fully functional
(being a beta). Why don't you use your LR licence included with your M9?
That will give you a better idea of all of the functions. I never got used
to C1 from my M8. That is mainly a personal prefernce though. I am much more
familiar with the Adobe products and use them every day. I have yet to find
moire to be a significant issue so I can't comment on the best tool to beat
that. A number of excellent books out there and some on-line tutorials too
to understand LR better. Martin Evening's book is very comprehensive. I
don't know if it is available in languges other than English?There is a big
adjustment from traditional folder management to the LR catalogue. However
keywording and EXIF bring enormous advantages.

2009/12/7 Meino de Graaf <meino at innerside.demon.nl>

> Hello
>
> I have a question that I hope some more experienced people can help to
> answer.
> Since a week I'm the happy owner of a M9. Until now I used a partial
> digital workflow, using a scanner and PictureWindow Pro as Photo editor.
> So I have downloaded Adobe Lightroom (3Beta) and started the adaptation
> process. The technical qualities are superb, however I still have some
> issues. First the organisation of collections with keywords is good, but
>  until now I have not found how that is done. So the relationship between
> the physical catalogues and the physical images is hidden, which means that
> it can be dangerous to reorganize the disks. It could be that it is simply
> my lack of understanding and experience.
> However the second issue is moire. I knew that it was present in the M9,
> but I have not been able to find a plugin or way to handle this in
> Lightroom. It can be done in an external editor like PW 5pro, but that is a
> tedious process.
> So I downloaded a trial version of CaptureOne 5 (pro). In CaptureOne I
> could reasonable easy control moire (and other issues caused by the lack of
> the AA filter).
>
> So now I have the question, can some of the more experienced users of these
> products shed some light on the strengths and weaknesses of both.
>
> An other question is that the trial download of CaptureOne is for both
> versions, the regular and the Pro version. Looking on the website of
> Phaseone there is a matrix with shows the features of both versions. Most 
> of
> the features of the PRO version I don't mind, however it is for me not 
> clear
> if there are differences in the library tools that are used for the
> manipulation of the image (like the moire tool, all the color tools etc).
>
> regards
> Meino de Graaf
>
>
>
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