CaptureOne Unlocks Xtrans

PKR said:
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.
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Thanks PKR. I use LR and ps occasionally for pics that need special treatment. Aperture handles pretty much 90% of my needs.

Gary
 
I really like what I am seeing from examples that semilog has posted and the ones from tdp from the serious compact forum that I posted the link to. Lets c if LR steps up its game..

Gary
 
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http://photoshopnews.com/feature-stories/photoshop-profile-thomas-john-knoll-10/

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.
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...and here's a bit of the history of Lightroom development.
 
SausalitoDog said:
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.
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In regards to 'investment' I'm in a similar boat with LightRoom. The mental investment aspect is big for me. I chose to focus on Adobe tools ~5 years ago - was influenced by the existing infrastructure (books, tutorials, fora). I'm hoping Adobe works to improve Raw conversion for X-trans files. I'm reluctant to go back to the past with various converters and tools but Capture One does look pretty complete.
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I think it's a good bet that Adobe will step up their game in the next major LR/ACR releases. By then, I probably won't be a LR user any more. More and more it's looking like Capture One, an old version of Photoshop, and maybe Photo Mechanic if Capture One doesn't fully meet my cataloging needs.

Odd, actually, that I never see Photo Mechanic discussed here. Amazing, classy chunk of code that is used by a *lot* of pros.
 
^from the amount of times I see you on the forums it at least seems to be a full-time hobby! Might as well be getting paid. ;)

I am downloading the beta and hope to test it out this afternoon. I have been using CaptureOne for a few years now and am excited to try it with the X-E1. I have really liked the results shooting tethered with 5d, D3 and the occasional PhaseOne P45+ rental.
 
so what about people who already have capture one? will there be a update that adds x trans functionality? Or do we have to buy a newer version?
 
I don't have any skin in this game (as long as I don't give in a buy an X100s) other than that I like working in LR. But I have a question:

Why has it been so difficult to deal with X-Trans RAW conversion? Why wouldn't Fuji work with all these companies to figure it out? Is there too much proprietary knowledge involved?
 
I can't, based on what I see, determine if Capture One Express 6 will (or does) support the X-Pro1 similarly to Capture One Pro 7 - does anyone know for sure?

The extra features of "Pro" vs "Express" don't appeal to me (especially since I don't shoot tethered or require any of those features that Pro offers).

Cheers,
Dave
 
No release version of Capture One Pro or Capture One Express supports Xtrans. I've inquired with Phase to see if Capture One Express version 6 will be updated to version 7 with Xtrans support and I'm awaiting a reply.
 
Dave Coffin's dcraw seems to have X-Trans support already. I guess it is just a matter of time until the applications relying on it will have it incorporated.
 
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