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Capture One Express in Conjunction with Lightroom

Started Jun 12, 2021 | Discussions thread
Erik Baumgartner Senior Member • Posts: 6,893
Re: Capture One Express in Conjunction with Lightroom
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pao1os wrote:

Hi,

I am a Fuji X photographer, using X-E1,2 and X-T20 bodies. Up until now I have used Lightroom to catalogue and edit my images. I have noticed that although it has gradually improved, LR does not deal with sharpening and noise particularly well with the X-Trans sensor images.

I have discovered that I have free access to Capture One Express so my thinking was that I would load up images which are worth keeping or selling into C1 for sharpening, noise and Fuji colour profiles (as these are apparently accurate to Fuji's specification) then finish my processing in LR and PS.

However I am having difficulty in exporting from C1 and importing into LR. I have discovered that C1 will not export RAF files to DNG so I was thinking of baking the changes into the image but am not sure which format to export to. The options appear to be TIFF or PNG (apart from JPG).

Any suggestions?

Thanks

A whole lot easier to use the Iridient X-Transformer plug-in ($36) from within Lightroom. Two mouse clicks and you can produce well demosaiced DNG’s from a single or multiple selected RAFs which appear next to the original images with all your Lightroom development settings up to that point (including color profiles/film sims etc.) automatically applied (you will want to apply different sharpening/NR settings). X-Transformer demosaicing is on par with C1’s.

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