Something similar to Lightroom. I believe it comes from the same company that makes some high end medium format cameras. I have a lite version of capture one that I haven't used much.
I used C1 many moons ago because they excelled at raw conversion, but wasn't really an editing tool beyond global adjustments. Local editing still required photoshop or a similar tool. I see they've added some local editing, but I'd still be inclined to Lightroom/Photoshop.
I've tried C1 on a couple different occasions, and always found I liked Lr more. Lr has advanced tremendously, and now with the low price, it is a slam dunk. It's both a great RAW processor and a terrific library management tool.
I've tried it once and at the time I liked it better than Lightroom as it pertained to RAW conversion. However, I couldn't justify having both and as Kirbic mentioned, it's hard to beat Lightroom's library management features and rapid proofing for clients.
I still think its has better RAW conversion, especially in the yellows for Canon than Lightroom, and it's color adjustment wheel seems much more intuitive than Adobe's, but the costs of upgrading is pretty steep so given the extra step for a small benefit and a high cost, I gave them up a few years back.
I was just reading an article about Dean Bradshaw on Scott Kelby's blog. He swears by this program...
He said it's what he uses for tethered shooting. He also cited its high cost and that Lightroom is also good, but somewhat less "stable" whatever he means by that.
...Lightroom is also good, but somewhat less "stable" whatever he means by that.
He may be seeing what I've seen occasionally with Lr during tethered shooting. The tethered shooting portion of Lr will occasionally crash. By occasionally, I mean it happens to me once a month or so. For someone shooting tethered a lot more than I do, it might become a nuisance.
I won't have a chance to test Lr 4 for tethered shooting for some time, as it does not support WinXP and I am still on that OS on my work machine.
For some shoots, especially the high end type he does, involving lots of people, equipment, and $$, being able to see all the details as you're shooting is incredible, as you can adjust anything that's not "perfect", and pretty much a necessity. It's also very helpful outdoors, where high contrast lighting makes it almost impossible to see the LCD on the camera.
I've been attempting to do the wireless route, but the current option is a the Eye-Fi Pro, and it they only offer the sandisk. Nikon uses CF. There is a workaround with an adapter, which I bought but haven't tested. Either way, there is a throughput issue which is an issue with bursts, if you do that kind of shooting. It also involves having to set up some closed circuit routing between the camera and the external screen, which I haven't looked into, which involves some software - which is why I was asking about this. Still, it's quite a big pill to swallow for something I'm not yet doing regularly. I do see this at some point in my future, however.
I did get a Marshal field monitor for Xmas, and that works really well, but I currently only have a very short tether, which is an issue. Also, when you use the external monitor, you have to view your shots on it as the LCD doesn't work while tethered. So there are pros and cons for sure.
