lightcatcher Loc: Farmington, NM (4 corners)

Many photographers, including our team at PL, have been frustrated with Adobe’s latest move to discontinue the standalone version of Lightroom, something Adobe said it would not do in the past. As a result, a number of us (including myself) have been looking for alternative post-processing tools that can replace Lightroom completely. For the past few years, I have owned Phase One’s Capture One Pro software, which I found to be very capable when it comes to post-processing images. Some of Capture One Pro’s capabilities (such as color adjustments, adjustment layers, etc) are light years ahead of Lightroom, and performance-wise, Lightroom has only been getting worse year after year, with things like adjustment brush slowing down even some of the most powerful desktop computers, whereas you can stack layers and layers of adjustments on images in Capture One without slowing anything down. Because of this, I have been running Capture One for some time now, hoping that I can fully transition to it at some point in the future. However, the biggest reason why I have not been able to fully transition, is the lack of Fuji GFX 50S camera support, something I was hoping I would see in the new version of Capture One 11 that was just announced today. After looking at the release notes of Capture One Pro 11, I came to conclusion that Phase One has no plans to support the GFX 50S or any other medium format camera on the market to protect its own medium format system. For this reason alone, Capture One could never replace Lightroom as post-processing software for many photographers out there.

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anotherview Loc: California

Try Photoshop Creative Cloud. PCC does multiple layers. It supports the Fuji GFX 50S.

See here: https://helpx.adobe.com/camera-raw/kb/camera-raw-plug-supported-cameras.html

Haydon

CaptureOne replaced Lightroom a long time ago for tethering for myself. I won't go back to LR for tethering likely ever again.

blackest Loc: Ireland

well in this case lightroom 6.9 supports that camera.

The easiest work around is adobes free dng converter, however can you apply lens profiles for example in capture one. The other option is an initial conversion to 16 bit tiff

A lot of the open source programs make use of dcraw at the front end to demosiac the raw file and pass probably a 16 bit tiff file to the next stage.
I would be surprised if capture one couldnt process such a tiff file.

maybe dx0's optics pro might suit your needs better. actual no they don't list that camera as supported

https://on1help.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/235402887-ON1-Photo-RAW-2017-6-and-2018-Compatible-File-Types-and-Supported-Cameras

This does though.

chapjohn Loc: Tigard, Oregon

CO is responsive to customers. Have read or heard about what CO does to add a camera to its list? CO writes its own profile for camera and lenses after they have taken 700-1000 shots in different settings. The process takes time. However, CO usually can work with any image based on the manufacture's profile until CO has finished its work.

jackpinoh Loc: Kettering, OH 45419

I am relatively proficient in both Capture One and Lightroom/Photoshop. Capture One is far superior. I suspect the market share for medium format cameras is less than 1%. The fact that the author owns a Fuji GFX camera means that, for him and the rest of the 1%, Capture One cannot replace Lightroom.

The author also assumes that Phase One's decision not to support the Fuji GFX in Capture One is to protect it's market for Phase One cameras. Nice theory, but no evidence. In fact, the Phase One camera market is completely different than the Fuji GFX market--the same way the Leica camera market is completely different from the Sony and Fujifilm camera markets. Note that Capture One recently began support of Fujifilm cameras that use the x-trans sensor--because those cameras have a significant market share. It is ridiculous for anyone to believe that someone at Phase One thinks they can impact Fuji GFX camera sales by not supporting the GFX camera in Capture One.

Photo One Loc: Clearwater Florida

Check out ON1 Photo Raw 2018. You will love it.

Kenny