When I bought a SanDisk Extreme III CF card yesterday, they had a free offer (instead of US$99) for Capture One LE from Phase One, a RAW developer product.
Up until last night, I really hadn't played with RAW development. I'd always used TIFF or JPEG formats, depending on need. Since Olympus is dropping TIFF from their cameras, I'm making a first step toward attempting to use RAW files.
I tried Olympus Viewer 1.5.x and it's not very helpful or intuitive and, if there is some live preview, it's very very slow. I downloaded Olympus Master 2.0 to a much faster machine but it was terminally slow just in handling JPEG files, so I don't even want to see how bad it is for RAW files.
Capture One LE doesn't seem so bad but it's a bit slow, which I expect from RAW development. It does provide instant (but slow) feedback as you work on the file's characteristics. It also has some batch capabilities and they're offering a free upgrade to the next major version, apparently. (Since it was free for me, who knows what will happen.) The upgrade to the Pro version is US$365, which is too much I believe, when Silkypix sells for something over US$100 for a first license.
Before you say it, Aperture isn't a viable alternative on my PowerBook and I didn't care for Lightroom during the beta. I'm asking about Capture One.
Anyone have any thoughts about this software? Thanks in advance.
Up until last night, I really hadn't played with RAW development. I'd always used TIFF or JPEG formats, depending on need. Since Olympus is dropping TIFF from their cameras, I'm making a first step toward attempting to use RAW files.
I tried Olympus Viewer 1.5.x and it's not very helpful or intuitive and, if there is some live preview, it's very very slow. I downloaded Olympus Master 2.0 to a much faster machine but it was terminally slow just in handling JPEG files, so I don't even want to see how bad it is for RAW files.
Capture One LE doesn't seem so bad but it's a bit slow, which I expect from RAW development. It does provide instant (but slow) feedback as you work on the file's characteristics. It also has some batch capabilities and they're offering a free upgrade to the next major version, apparently. (Since it was free for me, who knows what will happen.) The upgrade to the Pro version is US$365, which is too much I believe, when Silkypix sells for something over US$100 for a first license.
Before you say it, Aperture isn't a viable alternative on my PowerBook and I didn't care for Lightroom during the beta. I'm asking about Capture One.
Anyone have any thoughts about this software? Thanks in advance.