Lightroom vs Capture One Pro
So, I own both, and I use both. Most of the time I am much more happy with the results from Capture one Pro. But this time, and with this picture, I am at a loss. Basically the Lightroom version looks much more pleasing, but there are minor detail problems in Lightroom, that are not in Capture One. On the other hand, the noise
reduction is much better in Lightroom.
Left: Lightroom 3.0, Right: Capture One Pro 5.1.2
Camera: Epson R-D1s
Lens: Voigtländer Ultron 28/f2
Both have been processed with the following base settings. Very strong highlight and shadow recovery. Slight color boosting, default White balance.
What I first found out, that in this situation the white balance, which is automatically choosen by Lightroom, is much better and much pleasing than the one from Capture One. The second one is, that the Shadow recover in Lightroom is amazing, even thught I didn’t go 100%, I see more detail and there is no color shift.
One thing I see in the Lightroom version is that at the concrete borders I get a slight “golden” reflection, which I do not see in the Capture One version.
The highlight recovery is almost the same, but the Lightroom one gets a bit more of the blue which shouldn’t be there actually, this should be more gray.
Again, both RAW converters are awesome, but as we see here, none is the best. Most of the time Capture One gives me much better results, but in some situations and with some cameras Lightroom is better. For example anything I shoot with my Ricoh GR III is only usable with Lightroom. On the other hand with my Canon 5D MkII Capture One makes much better pictures.
