CO1 v7 high quality viewer
Hello,
Lately I have been experimenting a bit with CO1 to take the place of Iphoto for fast and simple viewing of Jpeg collections.
I had not fully acquainted myself with the v7 catalogue and album features, but they seem quite nice once digging a little bit deeper into the possibilities. The bottleneck with CO1 remains the speed, which can vary greatly on my Macbook pro 2011 with Samsung SSD and firewire 800 external HD. Switching between catalogues, it's working Ok, I have no more crashes or permanent freezes with the latest update (on Mavericks) anymore, but the spinning ball is there regularly for 10-15 seconds.
Mainly due to the operating speed I have been looking into other ways of managing and viewing my Jpeg library. I have been using Iphoto for that the last couple of years, but got more and more weary with the poor quality of mac preview, and the Iphoto viewer. I have a calibrated high resolution screen and the shadows are standard crushed with Iphoto and it comes nowhere near the Photoshop CC viewer quality.
So I tried out a few programs and also tested the viewer qualities of Safari (poor with the same crushed shadows), Firefox (better in the shadows but a bit washed out), media pro (high quality rendering but even more washed out in the shadows than firefox), and came to the conclusion that there are few or no programs or applications (at least that I tested) with the same high quality viewer as Photoshop CC or CO1 v7. Most of all, the match between Photoshop and all other viewers is really poor, while it is a near perfect match with CO1.
So I will be using CO1 as a library tool from now on, to view and show Jpeg collections. It's all there with the newest version, but I do hope that Phase one will improve the speed and consistency of operation, especially with the new catalogue features!
Chris
Lately I have been experimenting a bit with CO1 to take the place of Iphoto for fast and simple viewing of Jpeg collections.
I had not fully acquainted myself with the v7 catalogue and album features, but they seem quite nice once digging a little bit deeper into the possibilities. The bottleneck with CO1 remains the speed, which can vary greatly on my Macbook pro 2011 with Samsung SSD and firewire 800 external HD. Switching between catalogues, it's working Ok, I have no more crashes or permanent freezes with the latest update (on Mavericks) anymore, but the spinning ball is there regularly for 10-15 seconds.
Mainly due to the operating speed I have been looking into other ways of managing and viewing my Jpeg library. I have been using Iphoto for that the last couple of years, but got more and more weary with the poor quality of mac preview, and the Iphoto viewer. I have a calibrated high resolution screen and the shadows are standard crushed with Iphoto and it comes nowhere near the Photoshop CC viewer quality.
So I tried out a few programs and also tested the viewer qualities of Safari (poor with the same crushed shadows), Firefox (better in the shadows but a bit washed out), media pro (high quality rendering but even more washed out in the shadows than firefox), and came to the conclusion that there are few or no programs or applications (at least that I tested) with the same high quality viewer as Photoshop CC or CO1 v7. Most of all, the match between Photoshop and all other viewers is really poor, while it is a near perfect match with CO1.
So I will be using CO1 as a library tool from now on, to view and show Jpeg collections. It's all there with the newest version, but I do hope that Phase one will improve the speed and consistency of operation, especially with the new catalogue features!
Chris
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Hey,
I've always found C1 being better at displaying e.g max 200 shots in one folder, so more suited for tethered shooting. I would never use it as a catalogue, I find Lightroom much more suited and faster for this!
Laimonas0 -
[quote="LSdigi.com" wrote:
Hey,
I've always found C1 being better at displaying e.g max 200 shots in one folder, so more suited for tethered shooting. I would never use it as a catalogue, I find Lightroom much more suited and faster for this!
Laimonas
I did consider Lightroom, as it will have the same viewer quality as Photoshop, but I don't really like it as a raw converter. I noticed though that the price has come down. Perhaps I should consider it as a complement to C1.
Thanks for your input.
Chris0 -
Photo Mechanic is the fastest pure image viewer out there, by far. It doesn't really do anything else but show images for fast editing (reviewing/selecting/rating) and entering metadata. Don't think they've produced a worthy catalog-type of package yet and you can't alter the image from within Photo Mechanic. 0 -
Cheeky monky, The bottleneck is you hardware and not COP. 0
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