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Yes and yes, Gary.
As he says.. It's quite powerful. I see it as a raw tool. The library in LR is very useful. So, I use LR for most things.
Capture One will run a Phase One back from a tethered work station. My experience is using one mounted to a 4x5 sinar p for table top work. If you are fairly good with adobe products, C1 had the same parents, so it shouldn't be to tough to master. It will do all the expected conversion stuff. Some of it better than PS or LR.
Timing is everything. With a great deal of enthusiasm, Adobe decided to buy the license to distribute Photoshop. It was September 1988 and the Knoll brothers and Fred Mitchell, head of Adobe Acquisitions, made the deal with a handshake. It would be April before the final legal agreements were worked out.
The key phrase in that deal was “license to distribute.” Adobe didn’t completely buy-out the program until years after Photoshop had become a huge success. It was a smart move on the Knolls’ part to work out a royalty agreement based upon distribution.
It's a standalone. I got a free copy of an earlier version when Phase One bought Media Pro from Microsoft (from iView). It was pretty good and pretty simple to use but I have a large mental and financial investment in Photoshop plugins, which, naturally, don't work with Capture One.
Hope you like it.