The same procedure as every year
Every year, when there is an update to the new year, we are all excited to see what CO has up its sleeve and pay subsidies for it, which promise a promising amount of money. But as soon as it is installed, the trouble starts again.
Many users fail with licensing, the catalogs and sessions are updated and are no longer usable for downgrading. So far, so good, you get it solved and can live with it. But what drives me crazy every time is the fact that the spinning ball of death (SOD) catches the eye with various tools.
New features are referred to as "smart", but they are anything but intelligent. The person recognition for "grouping" is in its current form IMHO as good as useless, even the iPhone is worlds superior here. Landscapes - maybe at CO24. Performance improvements - where please? Even on M1 machines, the SOD lurks in the background.
What do we learn from this - we keep getting sucked into marketing that it's absolutely vital to install the latest version bloated with features that very few people need anyway. Incidentally, we could turn a blind eye if the payment model were similar to Affinity. But as long as the CO community accepts this price-performance ratio and dutifully transfers the sum, CO will not have to or want to change its business model.
For more than five years I have been giving CO the chance to pack the best RAW converter currently on the market into a reasonably working DAM, performance optimized on many machines, to solve tasks with AI-elements in the same way as a human being would do with his intelligence and where they are necessary. We would all pay homage to them and personally deliver the gifts in the form of €uros to the "Holy Grail". This wondrous and sacred vessel is said to offer bliss, perpetual updates and features in infinite abundance. Given that he's currently donating hefty sales to CO, there's no reason to change that, although sadly it's surrounded by a community that's in a steady lack.
It's in our hands. Beautiful new world.
Helmut
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Your not wrong!
I love CO as a RAW editor, I think it the best out there, but I feel the same way. Every year I hope for improvements that actually help a working pro and I'm constantly let down.
Perhaps I'm the minority and I can accept that. I'm frustrated that there is no streamlined process for opening a file in PS but CO has lots of styles for sale and a re-designed Export dialogue thats poorly designed for volume work.
I already pay the highest price for any RAW editor out there, but am expected to pay an additional fee for an iPad version that is essentially useless. That makes no sense considering the other areas that need so much help.
Please CO, get the database performance into the current century. DAM is so painful. Lightroom's DAM was faster and more robust on day one.
I really feel like the CO team is not in touch with whats actually needed. Just look at the upgrade process. So painful. Anyone working in CO daily, especially for a living, can tell you their frustrations.
I don't want to end on a negative rant. I love CO, but the frustrations and challenges are real. CO, please take the time to set aside the celebrity photographers and make an effort to listen to those of us who make a daily living in CO managing and touching millions of files yearly.
THANK YOU to the Capture One team!
THANK YOU to David Grover for all the amazing tutorials!0
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