![]() ![]() It’s probably a common problem with inexperienced user like myself coming into photo editing software to overuse tools like shadow- and highlight-recovery, clarity and sharpness. In Lightroom I found small adjustments in a slider made huge changes to my photos. Even if there are a few hiccups performance-wise, Capture One has nice organizing features and I feel I finally have a chance to get control over my enormous collection of photos. Hopefully, I can export those collections into separate sessions somehow later, but as I’ll go into details below, Capture One has a few missing features and performance issues when it comes to session and catalog handling. I’ve imported old photos by year into sessions and are going to work through each year, sorting photos into groups/collections based on event, deleting bad ones, adding metadata, and rating as I go. Everything is stored on a Synology NAS, which is backed up to another local Synology NAS in addition to a cloud-based backup of everything. When I consider a session to be done, I’ll import the selects into the Master Catalog and then move the session into an Archive-folder. I’m going to write a separate post about how I manage my photo collection, but in short, I use Capture One sessions, one for each photo event and all events sorted by year, but have planned a Master Catalog, which will contain only the selects from the separate sessions. Untangling about 20 years of bad data management Ironically, the last time I started Lightroom Adobe had patched it and now it worked much faster in my enormous catalog, but it was too little, too late. ![]() I saw some youtube videos related to Capture One and after a few tests using the Fuji-only express version of Capture One I abandoned Adobe and went all-in on Capture One. Trying to catalog my huge amount of photos caused the software to crash after a few days of chewing through the files and when I tried to start Luminar again it never recovered. Later I tested Luminar 4, which had catalog features, but some of the editing features didn’t feel right, like switching out the sky in one click and adding artificial sun flares. I looked at Luminar, and even bought a license for Luminar 3, but it didn’t have a catalog function at all. All in all, they seemed to handle the whole thing rather poorly and this also strengthened my desire to find some non-Adobe alternative. They also seemed to focus mostly on their cloud-based solutions and lots of longtime Adobe users started looking elsewhere. I’d just sold all my old photo gear and bought a Sony A7II, but trying my neighbors Fujifilm X-T2 made me switch completely to Fuji, which Lightroom didn’t handle very well, so another nail in the coffin for LR.Īt the same time, Adobe did some strange changes to their subscription-based Lightroom plan, like suddenly doubling the cost for some users or telling owners of a license to old software that they might be sued if they tried to use their old software. They were either good at metadata handling or mostly focused on photo processing (like Luminar), not both. Navigating this catalog was a nightmare as well so I started looking at the alternatives, but few solutions had good catalog performance and similar features, like rich metadata handling AND post-processing abilities. It was a mess, a huge, overwhelming mess. I never deleted anything and due to some failed attempts at re-organisation I’d imported lots of photos multiple times. 350.000 images, the first taken back in 2000. In mid-2019 my Lightroom catalog contained approx. I own a full license for the Capture One Pro 20, which handles all cameras, paid once, but they also offer a subscription-based version, similar to Lightroom. I use Capture One 20 to edit all my photos, both my old ones taken with Nikon D70, Nikon D90, Panasonic G7/GH5 and Sony A7II and glorious new photos taken with my Fuji cameras.Ĭapture One has a special Fuji version, which is cheaper and only works with Fuji cameras. ![]()
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