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Moving From Lightroom To C1....Question

Pixeljohn
Hi everyone. Quite new here. I'm officially moving to C1 from Lightroom. A while back I converted some images to the dng format. Not the best idea. But anyway now I'm trying to determine if I should export these images in the dng format or as tiffs in order to import into C1. I don't want to do a complete LR catalog import into C1 just a thousand or so key images.Aside from the size of the dng vs tiff files what do you feel are some of the key pros and cons?
Thanks!!!
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  • brianmerwin
    Now that you've done the DNG conversion, I'd just leave them as DNG files.

    Capture One actually has occasional issues reading/parsing TIFF files (most especially when there are alpha channel layers embedded). Ideally you'd be using the original raw files and not DNGs, but Capture One can read the DNGs just fine. You just lose a bit of latitude with color grading/white balance mainly (varies from file to file).

    DNG was intended to be a "universal" raw format, and offers a bit of space savings if you throw away the original raw file instead of embedding it (which isn't a good idea for many reasons) but since none of the camera manufacturers ever agreed on committing to it as a standard... it never panned out as being useful as intended.

    I recommend strongly not doing these conversions in the future - but now that you've already done them on some existing files, leave them as is.
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