Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2022/12/12
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I?ve been using Capture One for a couple years now. It?s good. Different from Lightroom Classic. There are things it?s not good at yet: sports shooting with lots of images to import and cull. Lightroom kicks butt and takes names on that front. Can?t add geotagging after import for some goofy reason I don?t understand. But in terms of working with images I find it easy and understandable with lots of good material on youtube. About subscriptions, etc: unless you?re selling software into this environment just give it a rest. Don?t like Adobe? Okay. No subscriptions? Fine. But there are issues with how to pay for product development when the cost is low. Adam > On Dec 11, 2022, at 11:14 PM, Peter Klein via LUG <lug at leica-users.org> > wrote: > > Peter Dzwig wrote: > >> by sheer chance when I was in the supermarket this afternoon, I came >> across a copy of Amateur Photography (amateurphotography.co.uk). This >> month's edition has not only a comparative summary of the main PS >> alternatives, but also an extensive comparative test of each of the >> software packages setting out their pros and cons. > > It's amateurphotographer.co.ok (the person, not the pastime). I figured > that out quickly. :-) > > Thanks, Peter. This article was helpful, and had links to another article > about free and open-source software. It does not bode well that Capture > One is giving everyone until Jan 30 to upgrade to pony up $200 for the > current version, after which a new "customer loyalty scheme" will begin. > And that new, ahem, "scheme" will be announced on... (drum rol)... Feb 1. > In other words, people have to gamble on whether they will do better > sending in a couple of hundred dollars now, or waiting to see what will > happen in February. > > All this is reminiscent of what happened with the music notation program > Sibelius after the Avid company bought it. In that case, I sent in my > money to upgrade before the Big Announcement of the New Era. Which turned > out to be so draconian that I switched to another program. > > I'm taking a "wait and see" attitude on Capture One. I am not going to > upgrade now, because my experience with Sibelius tells me that will > probably be throwing good money away. The two year-old version I'm using > is fine for my needs. I am happy to pay for new innovation that meets my > needs. But if they force us into a "subscribe forever or lose your work > scheme," they're fired. Meanwhile, I will continue to use the version I > have, and begin to explore the alternatives. > > --Peter > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information