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help me choose

sam212
I'm a user of DxO 4. It's ok. V5 is apparently unstable, and you have to throw away all your old project files.
So I'm looking for alternatives. http://www.phaseone.com/4/ doesn't show me anything about how this Capture One 4.x Software works.

I'd like to hear from users, things that may be worth me cross-grading. Either way I have to start from scratch, so should I try this? Is sessions a file? Or is everything in 1 DB like LR2? (I don't like that)

What's with the lens stuff? How's stability, support, bug fixes? How are upgrades?
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  • Paul Steunebrink
    On the site you mentioned you can find great video tutorials, which may show you how CO4 works. Best is however to try it for yourself. A download and install gives you a 30-days trial. CO 4.6 made a big jump in stability, which can be seen from postings here as well. I use CO4 since its release for over a year now and had very few crashes. Results however are mind-blowing and still improving, in case you are interested in that.
    CO4 does not use a library or database file like LR. You are free to organize our raw files in folders on your disk. It reads the raw files (never writes to it) and stores a preview and a settings file that contains the adjustments you made for each image.
    The concept of sessions mainly applies to the Pro (and DB) version, less to the regular or base version. You can use sessions or completely ignore it. A session is a collection of the main folders (Capture for your images, Trash, Output and MoveTo). It makes both navigation within CO4 and retrieving and organizing files on disk easier. Again, you best try it out in a trial and you are welcome to come back with your questions during the trial.
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  • sam212
    Hi
    Thanks for the info. So the settings files are stored somewhere, so I can come back and adjust and do the RAW->Jpg again right?
    Do these settings files survive upgrades? I mean, will v4 read a v3 settings file, and v5 when it comes out read a v4? This is one of the things DxO cannot do (!) so I won't even consider their v5.x
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  • Christopher
    It is true that Capture One 4.0 was not able to read the 3.x settings, but there were huge differences between the programs. I don't think anyone will absolutely guaranty that 5.0 will be able to read the previous 4.x release's settings. But we've already seen going from 4.1 to 4.5 there was a change in the settings files, and 4.5 was able to import the older data.

    What makes it more likely that all future versions will be able to understand previous version's settings is the .cos file is actually an XML document. So it means that new tags can be added in the future and obsolete ones can just be ignored.
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  • sam212
    guess so, but i wonder how the dev's see this? Is it important part of their philosophy? Or will new ver needs override compatibility?


    How do lens correction work? I don't see list of lens modules like dxo or ptlens, only list of camera bodies.
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  • Paul Steunebrink
    [quote="sam" wrote:
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    How do lens correction work? I don't see list of lens modules like dxo or ptlens, only list of camera bodies.

    The list of camera bodies with lenses are presets. You can add any preset yourself. You can do an analyze (Chromatic aberration tool), set other parameters and safe as a preset.

    I just started using this tool thanks to a new Canon EOS camera which allowed me to use my tilt/shift lenses again. I really needed some chromatic aberration to get out of the way 😉
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