Capture One Express in Conjunction with Lightroom

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

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.

I quite often export from C1 to LR using 16 bit tiffs. Tiffs are lossless and I don't see any loss in quality.

Just make sure they're 16 bit, C1's default is 8 bit.

Here's an example

> I export Jpegs....

Ian, if you use a Mac, you can also use Apple Photos to organize your keepers. In addition to the usual keywords, folders, etc, Photos is very good at searching images that are not indexed. For example, you can search for 'cars' or 'trees' or 'flowers' or certain people or pets. It works surprising well.