After the
latest Lightroom gaffe in which Adobe released an update to Lightroom,
knowing that it contained a bug, causing a huge uproar with users complaining about crashes, slowness, and removed functionality, I wonder whether this will drive more users into switching to Capture One Pro.
Apparently Adobe is determined to increase the user base for Lightroom and targets users using mobile devices and with a preference for simple interfaces. Unless Adobe decides to create two Lightroom versions in the future, I think this is bad news for those who appreciate Lightroom's design as it is and only wish for better performance and/or more pro-features.
As
Capture One Pro started to support DNG 1.4 with version 8.3, i.e., no longer just supports native DNG from certain cameras, I will take another look at this alternative. Michael Woloszynowicz published a
comparison between Lightroom and Capture One (version 7) a while ago. I'm not sure whether the claimed better RAW conversion quality is real or (more likely) just due to different default development settings. In any event, although I really liked Lightroom, I'm tired of Adobe's non-existent quality control and the need to force stop Lightroom now and then, and its annoying problems with refreshing previews and incorrect colours in previews. I furthermore have difficulty getting nice colours from my K-5 II despite having resorted to using custom camera profiles (created with an X-rite ColorPassport) and tweaking the latter by hand.
I look forward to playing with the latest C1 version and hope it will be a good alternative to Lightroom.