We Need An Adobe Lightroom True Competitor Locked

Bill Ferris wrote:

Adobe's the industry leader. Their market share is huge.

When I was youngster Ma Bell was the industry leader in the phone communications industry and their market share was huge. Gosh, I wonder why such a fine company lost that advantage... This argument in support of Adobe is typically the first offered, and is understood as the weakest by those of us who keep on trialing software that end up meeting our needs better. Yes, LR is still the best at some things, but is clearly falling behind in other major areas.

There are plenty of folks who prefer Capture One or another image editing app to Lightroom. That's only normal. In a competitive market, no single product is the best option for all consumers. But the notion that LR Classic can't produce a quality NEF is just a tired old troll.

And that's the rub. For those who are primarily Nikon users, LR processes NEFs spectacularly. For years, my Canon CR2 files very much responded to LR color processing very nicely. Yet, my Pentax PEF profiles from Adobe were not right most of the time. While LR has mitigated both waterfall and worm effects from the early RAFs, the profiles have never quite nailed the backward engineered profiles for Fuji. So, yes, Nikon and Canon have been better served by the higher level of attention Adobe provided, but clearly for Pentax and Fuji Adobe hasn't put in the same level of effort. That's based on my extensive use of Canon, Pentax and Fuji bodies over several generations, and the back-and-forth use of LR and Capture One over several years - until Fuji and Capture One became my primary choices in recent years.