Side note – Helicon Focus is my favorite focus stacking software, check out my review here.įor those of you that know Lightroom’s tethered capture features, you may say that this section is unfair. Unfortunately, this is mostly reserved for those lucky few shooting with Phase One cameras, but us mere mortals can still take advantage of the features to export to Helicon better than nothing. In addition, if you do a lot of focus stacking work then the most recent update to Capture One has streamlined the process between Capture One and Helicon Focus. Some cameras will allow less to be controlled (make sure you check) but with the likes of something like a D750 you are able to do pretty much anything. Ĭapture One allows you to take control of almost every setting in your camera–just look at that list above. There’s much more control when it comes to applying edits as you shoot, you can apply the same edits as the last image but you can also choose exactly what you’d like copied, for instance, you could select all but the color settings, which is very useful for color matching multiple items in the studio. Firstly, it obviously does all the things that Lightroom can, BUT it does them better. The list of things you can do in Capture One goes on and on. Sadly for Lightroom, that’s where it ends. And, you can apply overlays to your photos which is extremely useful if you’re shooting for a magazine for example. You’re able to control the camera’s shutter speed, ISO, aperture and white balance. In Lightroom you can edit on the fly (choose “same as previous” in the develop section, see above) and those edits will be applied to your photos, or you can apply a pre-existing preset. What do I mean by controls? I’m talking about, how much control do you have over the camera, the files being ingested, the edits being applied, and any other specialist features. Sure, I’ve experienced a couple of similar issues but I’d confidently say that Capture One has also been superior on the reliability front, and that is a feeling echoed by others. Capture One, on the other hand, has been fantastic. That sounds bad but, in all honesty, it’s not like that was happening constantly. After all, what’s the point of anything if it doesn’t work? Generally speaking, I haven’t had huge issues with Lightroom, however, I have experienced a few images taking a LONG time to load (longer than usual), cameras disconnecting and Lightroom crashing. Reliability though, is arguably the most important factor. In some cases, people were reporting images appearing at double the speed compared with Lightroom and this matched my own experience. Sadly, no video I found was of good enough quality for me to add here (come on people, make better videos), but all confirmed my own findings. However, I never like to rely solely on my own experience and hence did a little research as well. From my experience, Capture One is leaps and bounds ahead of Lightroom in terms of speed. When you’re shooting with a client or team (or both), and you’re all relying on the monitor, and you want the images to be appearing quickly. This is a boring one but nonetheless vitally important. Tethered Shooting Comparison | Speed And Reliability Those three categories (speed and reliability clumped together) represent the three most important factors to tethered capture, for me at least. To give this comparison some structure, I’m going to judge the two programs under three headings Speed and reliability, Controls, and Live view.
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