Moving from LR

Walter Gladwin

• 7. Oktober 2018 13:55

I'm trialling Capture One with a view to assess the possibility of moving from LR. There are 2 main problems I have found so far.
1. Capture One does not natively combine bracketed shots to produce an HDR image. As far as I can see, this has to be done outside Capture One. LR does HDR both natively and via plugins, which is a step easier than using completely different software.
2. In LR one can tag one's images with GPS coordinates and view the location of all the images simultaneously on a beautifully rendered map. Capture One doesn't tag images, and if you elect to view the location of a previously tagged image you are taken to Google Maps where you can see the location of only the one image.
Are any improvements in the pipeline?

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  SFA

  • 7. Oktober 2018 15:34

  [quote="walterono" wrote:
  I'm trialling Capture One with a view to assess the possibility of moving from LR. There are 2 main problems I have found so far.
  1. Capture One does not natively combine bracketed shots to produce an HDR image. As far as I can see, this has to be done outside Capture One. LR does HDR both natively and via plugins, which is a step easier than using completely different software.
  2. In LR one can tag one's images with GPS coordinates and view the location of all the images simultaneously on a beautifully rendered map. Capture One doesn't tag images, and if you elect to view the location of a previously tagged image you are taken to Google Maps where you can see the location of only the one image.
  Are any improvements in the pipeline?

  
  
  This forum being intended or user to user exchanges (mainly) all one can tell you is that you are right, neither of your desired functions are native to Capture One.
  
  Phase are not in the habit of openly discussing on the forum (which is not an official support forum) what the future might hold. However they do welcome suggestions through the Support Case system within their Customer Relationship Management system.
  
  Whilst the HDR requirement has become somewhat commonplace in some editors that set out to be alternatives to Adobe products there are many that would typically see RAW file conversion (Capture One's origin and primary driver for development decisions) and multi-file HDR merging and processing as somewhat separate and specialised activities with separate and specialised programs to drive them.
  
  The Map display requirement is similar in terms of specialism and in both cases the wider product range of Adobe across multiple business areas should make it somewhat easier for that corporation to "borrow and share" code and technology from different business application areas within their business to satisfy such needs. Also to spread the cost of it, whether developed in house or bought in from external suppliers, across a much wider range of clients in the customer base.
  
  I think HDR requirements (at the photographic and of the usage rather than they rather gaudy and dramatic images that were so popular a few years ago) are need that Phase would rather try to address as a capability within the scope of the software working within a single image if at all possible.
  
  Speaking personally, I shoot a lot of subjects that move and therefore dealing with exposure extremes in a single image is of much greater interest to me most of the time.
  
  Similarly an underlying map would be fun to play with but not obviously useful for my regular needs. I can make things work using a wider based external resource should I need to but cannot recall having such a need - certainly not directly from a RAW file.
  
  However there would be no harm in letting Phase know that some of their customers are interested in such ideas and the more people who ask the question the more likely it might be that something may happen.
  
  HTH.
  
  Grant

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