Lightroom Vs the other Raw Converters

After reading most of this I had a look at the others. I have Dxo and just cant get along with it though having said that, the results from it are as good as lightroom.
That sorta leads me to Capture One...

Anyone here use it? I'm liking it...so far

What other raw converters are people using?

I know a few pros who use capture one, the majority are still using lightroom. Having looked at it the layout was too much for me to unlesrn then lesrn again compared to lightroom.

I guess in the end they all do the same thingnit just comes down to personal preference...

I used CaptureOne some years ago, then I found Pixmantec, a very good RAW converter which Adobe eventually bought and incorporated it into Lightroom 1.0. As a registered user of Pixmantec I was offered a free upgrade to Lightroom 1.0 and I took it. I haven't used much else since and have upgraded LR at each major release.

I'm happy with LR's workflow and exceptionally happy with its adjustment tools and output quality.

I very, very rarely use the full blown Photoshop (CS4) and if I wan't anything arty farty, I use one or more of the plugins from Topaz Labs.

I have no desire to check out any other RAW converters, though many do exist.

I went from Pixmantec to lightroom and photoshop, I'm now on the latest of each and love 'em to bits.
But I do like to have a play around with other stuff
Capture One is a good bit of software but as Cabstar says, its a lot to forget then re-learn

I use Aperture 3 on my Mac. This is a good alternative to Lightroom for Mac users, and it has an excellent raw converter.

Regards
Bjørn

I've gone from Photoshop to Raw Therapee and finally darktable. The latter only runs on Linux,Mac and SunOS though so windows users are out of luck.

I can't see me moving away from darktable now which gets a big, big thumbs up if you have an operating system that can run it. Raw Therapee I used to recommend for quality of results but I haven't used it for a good while now, and both it and the competition have changed radically.

I used Raw Therapee on my Linux drive, Its a very capable thing.

DP Review have carried out a comparison of Raw Convertors

See this page: link

I have lightroom which I rate very, very highly

(Admin note: corrected link!)

I've used Capture One, Pixmantec Raw Shooter, LightZone, Adobe Camera Raw, Silkypix Developer Studio Pro, and Lightroom


For speed I'd say that Silkypix was pretty excellent! Gives great results, and works well for most types of images.

But for me, Lightroom is head and shoulders above them all. Image quality is superb, lens profile correction is a revelation, chromatic aberration correction is incredibly useful, and the graduated adjustments are brilliant (haven't used physical ND grads for a very long time!)

I just don't get on with the cataloging of LR, and have set the preferences so it leaves the images where they are - in dated directories of my own organisation - and let it save the XMP side-car files. That works for me.

Only niggle is when using DNG, Lightroom decides to cram the adjustments inside the DNG file That means I have to synchronise gigabytes of images across three drives when I make adjustments. Alternatively, using PEF Lightroom will be forced to create an XMP file - and synchronising the adjustment changes is trivial

Matt

Neither do I - for that I use ACDSee; I find it easy and quick to keyword and categorise. It has quite a versatile RAW converter but don't like it as much as LR

Andy