Capture One is incredible and I use it for both Fujifilm X and Leica systems. Subbed for the informative and entertaining video. But most of all, the Guts shirt. Loved the watch, Yousef!

There is another alternative: Fujifilm Raw Studio, which is free. Gives the exact same raw conversion quality and settings as in camera.

Thanks Yousef. I've been hemming and hawing about C1 vs LR. I have C1 trial and I'm new to editing. The thing about LR is there is so much available info and stuff for it. Your enthusiasm has convince me to learn C1 better and use it. If it doesn't work for me, oh well, education costs money. Thanks again

I switched to C1 for my Fuji RAFs a few years ago and never looked back. I appreciate that this is a very clear look at how much better the files look in C1

I honestly just canceled selling my new Fuji XH2s. I was using the A74 and light room. If it wasn't for your video, I probably would've already sold my Fuji cam. Thank you for your help

Yeah been saying this. But Fuji needs to help fix this because many people are loyal to their LR workflow. I switched to C1. The C1 colors are just better

+9 clarity, +26 texture, +40 sharpness yields almost pixel for pixel results comparable to what capture one is applying in the background without the added noise of just pumping sharpening. Only sharpen past 40 with masking at 100%.

You hit my humor spot on, and the video is also very informative. Subbed!

Its worth mentioning price. C1 is more expensive from outset and they are now apparently trying to push people away from buying one off purchases of their software to an annual subscription model. An announcement coming in early Feb on the future pricing. For an amateur who might go a month or two without using its starting to look just too expensive to justify the price.

I've been use C1 for about three years and love every second of using it. After a year I went back to LR and it felt more like a childs toy. I watched a video about how Phase One dove into each camera body and lens to calibrate C1 for each body/lens. They just don't guess, they get it right on. Also I find C1 is designed for professionals. You can create several workflows for each type of photography you do. All the way from importing to deliverables. Another great feature is being able to move the tools around. You can't do that in LR. Everytime Phase One updates C1 it just keeps getting better and they listen to their customers. Yeah, we've been able to bring back features they removed or add tools people requested even though pros don't use them.

Just got a Fuji X-T5 as my first Fuji, but I was using C1 a bit before to see if I wanted to switch from LR, but this really has helped me make that final decision to let my LR subscription expire :)

Thank you And I agree with you on every point. I love Fuji for what I get and not for the name

totally agree, I'm now using C1 23 on my fuji xh2 and xh2s, a steep learning curve but I'm sure I will get as quick eventually.

Extremely informative and well explained video! This issue is something I've been looking into for a while now and frustrates me a lot. Sometimes I really can't get the color, sharpness and highlights well done in Lightroom but with other pictures it's fine. I already bought an earlier version of Capture One so will train myself using that and see for myself. It's annoying because I grew up and always worked with Lightroom and it really worked for me in the past with Canon and Sony files. But those are of course all bayer sensors and that's where the issue lies with x-trans.

Thank you for creating this video, I found this to be very helpful

Yousef, great video. You have a new sub. BTW, C1 has also made it relatively easy for LR users to switch by enabling users to customize their C1 workspace to be very LR-like. They even provide a LR custom workspace so users don't have to do the set-up themselves.

Yes. I left Lightroom 3 or 4 years ago for Capture 1. It’s way better suited for Fujifilm raw photos in my view. At first the workflow seemed bewildering but that was only for a week or two while getting used to something different. After that it is super easy to navigate through.

Thanks for an informative video. My Sony RAW files also look much better when I open them in Capture 1. A friend who is a professional photographer recommended me to try C1 a little over a year ago and I was very surprised by the difference. It's always annoying to have to change software and there are parts of the interface I'm not so fond of.. but it's the result that counts and I think there can be no doubt that C1 makes better pictures than LR. On Sony RAW files, it is much faster to achieve a good result, thus saving a lot of frustrating time. The colors in particular are so much easier to get to look the way I want.

I’ve talked to an engineer of CaptureOne (PhaseOne) when I switched to Fuji some years ago. C1 is the only software (because they cooperate with Fujifilm) that can actually read the X-Trans Sensor and the CMOS Files. Every other software (including LR) has to reverse engineer the Files. So it’s more or less guessing of the software

Long time ago I switched from Lightroom to Capture One exactly for that reason. Now I switched from Capture One to DxO PhotoLab 6 as it's another big improvement. With low ISO images you get even more detail and high ISO especially with new 40mpix is no contest. Capture One has some kind of problem with new Fuji sensor and creates lots of noise with weird patterns. DxO on the other hand creates this filmic Fuji noise with better detail. Deep Prime noise removal is really top notch.

Cool and interesting video/topic. I'm looking to stay with Fuji so might actually switch over to C1 as I too haven't been that happy with Fuji RAWs in LR. However I'm still running LR on a student subscription so was kind of shocked to see how much C1 would cost me. 🙃

Holy shit . Thats like a night and day difference. Thanks man, thats a big help

Super informative video, but the quality of production is nuts. GL on your way to 500k subs bro

raw therapee and luminar neo also reads fuji files perfectly, incredible details.

Very informative! Thanks!!

Recently moving to Fujifilm X, I was incredibly disappointed by the Raw performance, and have been looking at Capture One. This video sealed the deal, and got you an immediate subscription as well. Cheers!

Im using xt4 and editing in capture one..its just ❤❤

My ADHD Loves you and your editing style. Great work!

I usually use Silkypix to convet Fuji x-trans files and export them to LR. I made some tests and i think it is better than LR and even better than CaptureOne in my opinion. It worth a try.

Thx man, i immediately downloaded the Testversion!!!

Great information!

Thanks for the video, you absolutely 100% right. I been using C1 for the past 4 years and because it handles Fuji X files so well, I actually ended up selling Canon full frame system. Adobe would have caused me to sell Fuji and I would be now carrying around a lot of extra weight and spending a lot more money to get the same result.

Hi, thank you for this comparison, very usefull !

I tried Capture One a few years ago and I think it was because I was so used to my flow with LR that I didn't make the switch. It seems like the photos on my X-H1 just seem "bad" now on LR and I just can't seem to get good shots when reviewing in LR. I'll be revisiting C1 after watching your video. By the way, loving the "Cruel Angel's Thesis" at the end of your video.

It's because Capture One is set up to understand the X-Trans sensor and Lightroom processes them as though they used the conventional Bayer sensor found in all the other digital cameras. I assume at some point Lightroom will be updated with software to understand this. Don't know what's taking them so long, though.

Awesome photos! and a great video!

C1 is more easy with great results. I manage to edit photos with different lights conditions and camera settings. 27 photos in 1 day. Only 3 had slightly feedback. The rest are approved from the client. The luminance mask is more advance that LR doesnt have.

Thanks for great video. Last few years i shot only jpgs on my fujifilm x100s

As you talk about "Fujifilm", you need to first distinguish between Fujifilm cameras in the Bayer paradigm on the one hand and X-trans on the other. Most raw processing software is in the Bayer paradigm. And images from the X-trans sensor are not. That's not necessarily a problem, except when algorithms are used for X-trans that got developed for Bayer. X-trans needs a completely different approach. Some people think that there is a simple way of tweaking the Bayer raw conversion to we get RGB images from X-trans, but that is where the muddiness comes in. This video is about the X-T cameras only.

Yo Chimney Rock! Grew up down the mountain from there lol. Mostly drove up to speed on those backroads and not so much the town itself though hahahaha

Great video ! Thanks

Capture One is the industry standard for commercial photographers (like myself who has been using C1 since I can't remember--2005-6?). Lightroom seems like a great tool but you don't want to send clients soft and mushy images...

Very good review and explanation. Nice video.

I used C1 for about a year, than DxO and other converters and finally LR. I then stayed with LR for ease of use. The difference is not that dramatic to me, but I still use DxO PureRaw with DeepPrime that is much better than either LR and C1 when it comes to low light enhancements at the import process. Please consider: LR changed the default sharpness level to 40 with newer releases - that is too much for Fujifilm files (in my observation). Go back to 20 or 25 and you‘ll see a more reasonable result. Plus: C1 is now ridiculously expensive. 29 Euros/month??

After switching to Fuji i no longer was happy with LR. i moved to ON1 which gave me better results, but the software was awefully slow. so i tried C1 and man, i was blown away. not only best results in processing, but also lightening speed compared to both LR and ON1.

Everyone complaining about the 40 MP sensor recently all used Lightroom. I saw an immediate and significant improvement in image quality between the 26mp sensor and the 40mp sensor, but I've been using Capture One for a while now.

You are right! NOW>...>please can you do the same comparisons with Fuji jpegs in both software , that would make a great video....Thanking you in anticipation of the fulfilment of my humble request. Greetings from Scotland!

Its just all about default settings. Im sure you can set LR that the images are as sharp as in c1.

I assume that it's because Fuji uses a 6x6 Bayer pattern that has extra green sub pixels. Standard Bayer patterns use a 2x2 which comprises of RGGB subpixels. LR can't interpret the RAW files properly because all the tools will assume the file is using a standard pattern hence weird artifacts and unsharp renderings.

Main reason is the type of sensor Lr reads, Bayer sensors. Fuji uses xtrans sensors, which Lr does a terrible job converting(why they still haven’t fixed i don’t know…). C1 is great, ended up switching to it because it respects the native quality of the raw file, xtrans or Bayer…almost regretted moving to fuji, but yeah, C1 exists!🎉

I noticed this with my X-H2. In camera my images looked sharp, but after loading them into LR they looked as if I had slightly missed focus. It had me questioning myself so I went and viewed the jpegs on a different program and it was sharp again. I started questioning the raw files and even used a different camera on my next shoot. I recently was trying out a more budget editing software and my raw files looked better from my X-H2. I would hate to leave LR, I just hope they come up with an update to this issue.

The problem with CO is the performance, they simply can not solve the shagginess on high resolution screens, every slider has a latency, half a second, sometimes even a full second. On a 5K iMac it is a disaster since always. The problem could be solved with the Open In Low Resolution option available since the Monterey, however there is no such option anymore and we are stuck with the incredibly slow app. LR is instant, so it is possible. As for the sharpness, well it is true but not the way you presented here. CO sharpens much, much better, but it also starts with high noice reduction setting while LR does not. also, CO sharpening is far from perfect, it has a lot of splotchiness and LR noise looks better so not a clear win as it seems. Most of the time the difference is negligible if it exists at all. But with the foliage and with the high iso images there could be some problems with the LR sharpening. In the end it really does not matter which one you use, and most of the time the comparisons in which one kills the other are flawed, just as yours. Your black and white conclusions seen a bit too religious and I believe you rushed up with them, and I do not blame you, we are all guilty of that. Just, the reality is a bit more complex. :)

C1 always has been better with skintones and sharpness, and these examples again show the difference. Nothing comes close to skintones if you shoot hasselblad and use phocus though (also works on RAF btw). Lightroom is a great piece of software, very fluid workflow, but in the end it is about the image quality and color rendition and that is where it misses the mark when comparing it to other specialized software.

I had the same experience. Dog photos with fur were terrible and looked out of focus. Then C1 and POP! I do prefer the LR catalog though: using sidecars for metadata (tags, etc.) I have over 100,000 old metadata tagged files. I’m considering Photo Mechanic. And, as you said, it is taking time to get my workflow tweaked in C1.

I had the same problem with lightroom. However, it only looked muddy on preview mode before converting them to jpeg. But i find weird why preview mode makes fuji raw look bad.

Capture One relies on libRAW, an open source raw format decoder. Most raw processors use it and it is quite good. Lightroom is one of the very few that uses a proprietary raw processor and it's just not that great for x-trans sensors.

I have Lightroom 6 (the non-subscription version from a few years ago). It doesn't read RAF files at all! You either need to upgrade LR to a more recent version or use another program to convert RAF to DNG. I'm currently using Capture 1 Express (free version). I'm not a pro so it's tough to justify Capture 1 Pro as it's a subscription.

For basic editing, Capture One does a fantastic job on Fuji files. But LrC has a ton of masking features now that C1 doesn’t have. If C1 ever gets masking to work the same, I’m all in.

I still have a half brick of 120mm fuji films in my freezer. I also have a full brick of Kodak 120mm panatomic-X. :D Also, raw should look the same regardless of program viewing it. Edit it in raw. Don't let a program touch it. The days of processing have gone when all the photo labs closed up. I worked as a mural printer at Detroit Imaging Group and Chroma Studios in Columbus. Yes we processed there (C41). Otherwise no processing.

it's pretty simple: Fuji doesnt like Adobe (for whatever reason) - they didnt give the demosaicing algorythm to them - so Adobe tried themselves but dont get it right, because of the X-Trans sensor which is unique to Fuji works differently than any other camera manufacturer which all use a Bayer Matrix. But Fuji likes the guys over at PhaseOne because they were willing to bring a "lite" version which is free, but only can use the standard functions and only for Fuji RAW.

Stick with it! C1 is so much better than Lightroom for pro work - apart from how it’s better for Fuji pics, Sessions are much easier to work with, Lightroom is far too slow and just seems outdated and clunky in comparison.

I'm Sony user (a6400) but I want to buy a Fuji XT5. Actually I prefer use CaOne over Lightroom, more details, sharpness and real colours.

For the moment, I'm using Dx0 pureRAW at the front of my processing in Lightroom, which demosaics into a DNG. Some people say its's overshapened but it's a LOT better than leaving it to Adobe. Sadly I can't afford C1 on top of CC. Maybe someday.

I have similar problems with processing Sony A7 IV raw files. Shadow recovery is trash in Lightroom, it just adds a ton of noise.

100 % correct. C1 gives best IQ with Fuji files.

You are right. Fuji's Trans X sensors suck on Adobe. That's why I stay away from Fuji APSC gear. I would not change my photo editor just to have a camera that does not offer any apparent quality advantages but disadvantages. Fuji colours are not my thing anyway.

Very nice comparison. I would also 100% recommend landscape photographers do this as well, foliage looks really bad in Adobe software, almost like a painting, it looks a lot better in Capture One and I think even a hair better in other software (RawTherapee I think, not sure).

Lightroom and PS have a feature called “enhance” that works in line with Fuji raw that fixes this issue. Just right click on your image and select enhance while in camera raw

Thanks for the demonstration. I am watching on a MacBook, but I cant see any difference in the details of your shot. Your are switching to C1? What if you have a lot of presets in LR, workin with? Is it also a problem of older Fujifilm Cameras? I use the X-T3.

Never really liked Lightroom - preferred Phocus when I was shooting with Hasselblad. When I bought a Fuji GFX 50R I tried Capture One and haven't looked back.

Many people snivel about the cost of Capture One being higher than Adobe. But you get what you pay for with Capture One. Yes, Capture One doesn't do some (many?) of the things that Adobe can do. But it isn't designed to do everything. What it does do, it does extremely well. For example, if you tether when you shoot, Capture One is far better than Adobe.

It would be great to see you comparing canon files as well as other brands =)

I have heard many people say that the latest Lightroom update has made it equal to C1 when it comes to processing Fuji Raw files. I would really love to see a follow up video in which you can checkout the latest update. As with many other people in the comments section, I am also biased towards Lightroom mainly because I can edit anywhere using any device. From what I understand, the C1 iPad app is not as good and the masking feature is also not that great compared to Lightroom. I would highly appreciate if you can make a follow up video comparing with the latest Lightroom version. Also, a very good detailed and fun video. Keep going. One more sub added 😁

Yes, they have a special VIP offer for you in the pipe line - higher annual payment.

How do you know that I use Fujifilm XT4 and have the same issue. I couldn't figure it out until you say it. Thank you very much for this video. You made my career lol

easy reason... fuji isn't a bayer sensor. it is x-trans. the layout of colors is not a standard array of photo receptors. it actually eliminates some bayer issues such as moire. x-trans allows fuji to remove the low pass filter and that results in better quality (for the same size/resolution sensor). it has reduced color fringing abd improved sharpness. The reason lightroom sucks compared to capture one is that lightroom doesn't account for this x-trans layout of color photo receptors. Instead it interpolates things and tries to force the x-trans layout into a set of processing algorithms that were designed for a bayer layout. Capture one natively processes x-trans layout, and thus shows the added benefit of the x-trans sensor. to this day, i have absolutely no idea why adobe refuses to update lightroom to include x-trans support natively. perhaps the software code is so insanely complex it wouldn't be easy to retroactively add it without a major overhaul? but then capture one does bayer and x-trans no problem, but maybe it was designed that way from the ground up and thus more easy to implement? maybe adobe has something against fuji? i have no idea. but it made me drop lightroom for c1, and i've never looked back.

Don't oversharpen in LR, use enhance details

I've wanted to switch away from Lr for a long time. The trouble is Ps. Having Ps alongside Lr for $10/month is really hard to beat. I hope to switch to Capture One at some point, though.

Have you compared the straight out of camera JPEGs to the LR and C1 RAW files? In my experience in doing so, the SOOC jpegs actually look quite similar to the LR RAW files in terms of muddy results. It seems quite possible to me that was we are seeing is actually a downside of X-Trans, rather than LR doing something detrimental the the photos. I think C1 likely has a clever sharpening algorithm that corrects for these deficiencies.

So what we look at, on our large computer display, is the result of "raw processing". Incidentally this happens in camera too, when we look at the display or eVF. The raw file, in the meantime, remains 100% colour noise and 100% luminance noise - it only has monochrome data elements - zero RGB pixels. How LrC and C1 do their magic depends on "defaults" or our deviations from these. The Mudbricks (mudbrick AKA adobe) work everything towards their neutral flattish rendition. The Adobe default profile is actually camera model specific. C1 opts for a more vivid default. To me C1 presented a no-go with their treatment of black point & white point, plus their Ts & C's (AKA pricing). As LrC doesn't do raw processing but actually Adobe Camera Raw (ACR) as a plug-in, when we comment on raw processing, we mean ACR. Well, it has two fundamental weaknesses: its sharpening versus detail recovery and detail loss, and, its graininess in the darker - perfectly within dynamic range - exposure zones. These latter are easily visible when pixel peeping on display or printing larger than A3. Both are failed raw processing where demosaicking goes wrong. The detail handling is done best by Topaz's Gigapixel AI when you blow up significantly. Note, at 1,440 DPI, you need a lot more dots than pixels and this app controls that problem very well. The noise - ability to not generate graininess - is best handled by either Topaz's DeNoise AI or DxO PURE RAW. Where colour, vividness, tint, contrast, etc impact your image, you need to work those sliders.

I ve been using c1 since c1 19 and been screaming as a fuji user to not use lr Classic. Ps. Look at the clarity difference in the iris

Capture One doesn’t allow the AF feature when tethering with my X-Pro 3. A big issue for me.

Don't switch to Capture One. Process RAF with DxO PureRaw 2 and then import to Lightroom. DxO does a crazy good job, better than Capture One.

This is the reason why there is no proper key to decode data from raw files in adobe applications. many years ago in the days of the Nikon D300, only Nikon's NX was able to get the true quality of raw files, and this is due to the lack of information about their correct reading by Adobe CRW or Lightroom and other applications. Of course, in the further part of the edition, the algorithms used by the program in the corrections are also important ...

My brother in Christ I have your answer: Camera manufacturers do not provide third parties with raw processing information which is why the results vary from one software to another differ. It's up to the engineers at Adobe to reverse engineer the raw data & improve how their software handles the files. It's what they've always had to do, actually & it isn't necessarily exclusive to Fujifilm cameras. New cameras with slightly differing raw interpretation can cause phenomenon like this.

If you thought capture one is good, give dark table a shot. It comes out like I saw in the camera, it's nuts.

Thanks for the good video. I like my xt4 but the images of my Nikon Z6, and my Sony A7III are still sharper than the images of Fuji with the 90mm 2.0 in Capture Pro 23.

Somebody tell capture one to make an app already. I hate editing on my laptop. But would try it on an iPad Pro as soon as it’s available.

Adobe's subscription model is reason enough to go for C1.

but what version are you using. i have gfx 50s 2. i cant get capture one to find raf files

It's clear the difference, but its not a problem with LR (or C1), This is mostly about the profile you pick on LR (provia) to "read" the photo, and sometimes its just performance preview. Export jpegs on the same settings and profile and see what comes out abd check the difference.

I use ON1 Photo Raw. Has anyone compared Fuji Raw files between ON1 and C1 or Lightroom?

try DXO and you'll see that C1 will be outperformed, too

CaptureOne is the best for Fuji raw files. Canon,Nikon and Sony raw files came out good when I used Lightroom. But for Fuji, I don’t understand why Lightroom can’t work well with Fuji raw files🤦‍♂️🤦

Ive had a Fuji X100F and I currently use Affinity Photo for RAW conversion and editing. I picked up a X100V a couple of days ago and have a link to download Capture 23. I'll give it a bash. Have you tried Affinity Photo?

I tried capture one but can not stand for their catalog management. I have about 500 photos taken every time and the import takes forever. And it will get worse over the time. Once hits like 10000 ish photos it's almost not possible to use the C1. I guess if you take studio shots and don't need to manage a tone of photo, yeah try C1.

Is this still the same? or has Lightroom now become more optimised to Fujifilm?

I use fujifilm and yes using capture pro then i don't see wormy fx

Can someone explain to me why I cannot change the shutter speed, the ISO or the F stop in the dialog box? Everything seems to be locked except for the shutter button. I have to change either one of these features on-camera. I am using Capture One 20 for Fuji. Thanks in advance.

I have no problem at all with Lightroom. I import both pictures from X-Trans 4 and X-Trans 3 and both works. I tested in C1 but there is no difference. Pictures look literally the same.