Capture 1 LE - superior RAW conversion tool

John Davis · Apr 16, 2003

I just put the new Capture 1 LE (C1-LE) through its paces, converting D60 and 10D images. The new product was made available today w/ a free 15-day trial period.

C1-LE is hands down the best RAW converter for Canon RAW files. Its output is sharp, noise-free, detailed and with a wonderful tonality.

John

P.S. - With the risk of again being labeled elitist (for the record: I do not care) I'm afraid many in this forum may consider their conversions for thw 10D AND the D60 pale and lacking saturation. Not so! They are accurate! Lovers of the standard (non-corrected) D60 output should stay w/ the Canon converter without any corrective profiling.

John O77763 · Apr 16, 2003

John Davis said:
I just put the new Capture 1 LE (C1-LE) through its paces,
converting D60 and 10D images. The new product was made available
today w/ a free 15-day trial period.

C1-LE is hands down the best RAW converter for Canon RAW files. Its
output is sharp, noise-free, detailed and with a wonderful tonality.

John

P.S. - With the risk of again being labeled elitist (for the
record: I do not care) I'm afraid many in this forum may consider
their conversions for thw 10D AND the D60 pale and lacking
saturation. Not so! They are accurate! Lovers of the standard
(non-corrected) D60 output should stay w/ the Canon converter
without any corrective profiling.

I agree it really is the impressive, on what I've seen so far. I have used Yarc and breezbrowser both of which are good but at the moment Capture One appears to be the best.

John O

jdavis37 · Apr 16, 2003

Is it any faster than the Canon software? I'm waiting for another 6-9 months before buying a new PC and my now aging 1GHz Athlon is chugging using the Canon software.

John Davis said:
I just put the new Capture 1 LE (C1-LE) through its paces,
converting D60 and 10D images. The new product was made available
today w/ a free 15-day trial period.

C1-LE is hands down the best RAW converter for Canon RAW files. Its
output is sharp, noise-free, detailed and with a wonderful tonality.

John

P.S. - With the risk of again being labeled elitist (for the
record: I do not care) I'm afraid many in this forum may consider
their conversions for thw 10D AND the D60 pale and lacking
saturation. Not so! They are accurate! Lovers of the standard
(non-corrected) D60 output should stay w/ the Canon converter
without any corrective profiling.

smoody · Apr 16, 2003

there are at least three answers to that question:

1] adjustments. waaaaay faster here. instant previews of adjustments. slide the exposure compensation slider and watch it change. then applying the change to the entire image is faster too.

2] faster to get the results you want (result being a jpeg or tif file that looks it's best). a big yes here too. You can even have it launch any program you pick once the file is saved, so, for example, it'll switch to photoshop (or neatimage or ...) and load the image.

3] converting from raw to a displayable format. hard to tell because it does it in the background without any model progress dialog boxes. i suspect it's a little faster, but again it's hard (for me) to tell.

SMoody

JDavis37 said:
Is it any faster than the Canon software? I'm waiting for another
6-9 months before buying a new PC and my now aging 1GHz Athlon is
chugging using the Canon software.

Leo Reinhard · Apr 16, 2003

I just spent 2 hours experimenting with some files I was having trouble with using YP and PSII. I am overwhelmed with the colours, clarity, sharpness, tonality and anything else I forgot to mention

>

Goodbye to oversaturated colours from my D60.

I am not sure that I need Magne's D60 profiles that he has been promising to release for so long.

John Davis said:
I just put the new Capture 1 LE (C1-LE) through its paces,
converting D60 and 10D images. The new product was made available
today w/ a free 15-day trial period.

C1-LE is hands down the best RAW converter for Canon RAW files. Its
output is sharp, noise-free, detailed and with a wonderful tonality.

John

P.S. - With the risk of again being labeled elitist (for the
record: I do not care) I'm afraid many in this forum may consider
their conversions for thw 10D AND the D60 pale and lacking
saturation. Not so! They are accurate! Lovers of the standard
(non-corrected) D60 output should stay w/ the Canon converter
without any corrective profiling.

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Keith Dodson145047 · Apr 16, 2003

Does that mean you can only convert 20 images to TIFF at one time? Or does it mean that you can only make image adjustments to 20 images at one time?
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Don Lashier · Apr 16, 2003

JDavis37 said:
Is it any faster than the Canon software? I'm waiting for another
6-9 months before buying a new PC and my now aging 1GHz Athlon is
chugging using the Canon software.

I've been using the pro version since last fall and cancelled my planned PC upgrade because C1 does just fine on my 800Mhz Pentium. Sure conversions take 20 or 30 seconds but I don't even notice because I'm busy adjusting the next image.

DL

Niklas Ferm · Apr 16, 2003

Not a problem - just let C1 convert in the background, while you are working with the next image. Works like a charm!

This is the best one so far, beats ACR hands down!

niklas

Keith Dodson said:
Does that mean you can only convert 20 images to TIFF at one time?
Or does it mean that you can only make image adjustments to 20
images at one time?
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Keith Dodson145047 · Apr 16, 2003

I shoot weddings and high school seniors and may have hundreds of images to convert and can't spend too much time working on each individual image. Well see....
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Paul Juhn · Apr 16, 2003

How possibly there can be so much improvement in image quality by using different conversion program?
If the output image is so good, then isn't it something wrong?

Please someone explain why it can be?
I have been a brerezebrowser user for more that 2 years.

Thanks in advance.

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TonyK_in_Texas · Apr 16, 2003

I have tried serveral times today to download it. I am registered and logged in and still am not able to get it to download.

There are no error messages. I am running W2K Pro with IE 5.5.

Thoughts?

John Davis said:
I just put the new Capture 1 LE (C1-LE) through its paces,
converting D60 and 10D images. The new product was made available
today w/ a free 15-day trial period.

C1-LE is hands down the best RAW converter for Canon RAW files. Its
output is sharp, noise-free, detailed and with a wonderful tonality.

John

P.S. - With the risk of again being labeled elitist (for the
record: I do not care) I'm afraid many in this forum may consider
their conversions for thw 10D AND the D60 pale and lacking
saturation. Not so! They are accurate! Lovers of the standard
(non-corrected) D60 output should stay w/ the Canon converter
without any corrective profiling.

--
TonyK

Adam-T · Apr 16, 2003

I thought it may be a good converter Of course I'll be buying from the USA

)) - BTW how big is the download ? and does paying give you an activation key or do you have to order it as a package ? ..

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imageguy · Apr 16, 2003

I don't know if this will help anyone. I've been playing around today with both Capture 1 - LE and Canon's File Viewer Utility using the some images.

I found C1 to be faster (working on old 500mhz athlon system)

Take a look and let me know if my testing method is even valid. I have limited experience working with raw conversion software.

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Mike (a.k.a. ImageGuy)

John Davis said:
I just put the new Capture 1 LE (C1-LE) through its paces,
converting D60 and 10D images. The new product was made available
today w/ a free 15-day trial period.

C1-LE is hands down the best RAW converter for Canon RAW files. Its
output is sharp, noise-free, detailed and with a wonderful tonality.

John

P.S. - With the risk of again being labeled elitist (for the
record: I do not care) I'm afraid many in this forum may consider
their conversions for thw 10D AND the D60 pale and lacking
saturation. Not so! They are accurate! Lovers of the standard
(non-corrected) D60 output should stay w/ the Canon converter
without any corrective profiling.

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Carlos · Apr 16, 2003

keith,

I have the exact same question you gave. Does it mean "convert" or "make adjustments" at one time? I'm pretty sure it means "convert" because it is difficult to "make adjustments" to 20 images before the first one finishes.

When I come home from an airshow with a few hundred images, I'm not gonna go thru them one at a time.

I'll try it myself also.

Keith Dodson said:
I shoot weddings and high school seniors and may have hundreds of
images to convert and can't spend too much time working on each
individual image. Well see....
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body doubles be?'

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Phil Askey · Apr 16, 2003

It's because the input isn't an image as much as data from the CMOS sensor, it's how the conversion software processes that which defines the output image. Phase One obviously have superior processing algorithms (demosaic, sharpening, color correction) than Canon. That's all.

Paul Juhn said:
How possibly there can be so much improvement in image quality by
using different conversion program?
If the output image is so good, then isn't it something wrong?

Please someone explain why it can be?
I have been a brerezebrowser user for more that 2 years.

Thanks in advance.

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Joo · Apr 16, 2003

I would think that for most people, the efficiency of their workflow would be more of an issue than the speed of the RAW file conversion.

Well... at the very least, thats the way it is for me. Guess I really shouldn't make a judgement about other people.

Having said this, I think that C1 LE would provide a more efficient workflow with its background RAW conversion and batch RAW conversion, i.e. you can correct other RAW files while C1 LE is converting.

Joo

JDavis37 said:
John Davis said:

I just put the new Capture 1 LE (C1-LE) through its paces,
converting D60 and 10D images. The new product was made available
today w/ a free 15-day trial period.

C1-LE is hands down the best RAW converter for Canon RAW files. Its
output is sharp, noise-free, detailed and with a wonderful tonality.

John

P.S. - With the risk of again being labeled elitist (for the
record: I do not care) I'm afraid many in this forum may consider
their conversions for thw 10D AND the D60 pale and lacking
saturation. Not so! They are accurate! Lovers of the standard
(non-corrected) D60 output should stay w/ the Canon converter
without any corrective profiling.

Click to expand...

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EddyG · Apr 16, 2003

I was just about ready to register both BreezeBrowser and YarcPlus, but maybe now I'll just buy the LE version of C1! Downloading the trial as I type this...

Pigasus · Apr 16, 2003

I've been told it's 15 MB's! On my non broadband connection that will take me about 90 minutes to download. Yikes. I sure hope I only need to download it once.

Adam-T said:
I thought it may be a good converter Of course I'll be buying from
the USA )) - BTW how big is the download ? and does paying give
you an activation key or do you have to order it as a package ? ..

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Keith Dodson145047 · Apr 16, 2003

From what I could tell from the web page you can activate the copy you downloaded. Good news for you 56K folks!

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DavidP #28649 · Apr 16, 2003

The C1 workflow is only more efficient, IMO, if you intend to work on each image individually when you convert.

For those (like me) who tend to convert a large set of images and prefer to do that in a batch mode (after doing some experimentation on a few images to find a good white-balance, etc), then "fix" only ones that are terribly wrong later in Photoshop, I don't think C1 has a better workflow at all.

Joo said:
Having said this, I think that C1 LE would provide a more efficient
workflow with its background RAW conversion and batch RAW
conversion, i.e. you can correct other RAW files while C1 LE is
converting.

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