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My other half uses a Canon 20D, She swears by Capture One LE.......She really does not get on with Adobe Camera RAW in Photoshop.
Having said that she has not really given Lightroom s decent road test as yet.
I use a Nikon and find Cap One LE, OK sometimes use Lightroom, But mostly use Nikon Capture NX........So if your a Canon shooter, I'd check out Cap One LE, Many on EPZ rate it highly...
How long is a piece of string. I pick C1 LE for its control over colour and ability to produce the result I want without an over sharp noisy/over harsh output.
Others will argue. Some say Lightroom is a better workflow, but it cost a lot more, and are the end results as good?.
Quote: are the end results as good?
Yes, better? Now that's another question!
It's a bit like asking which car is better, or which camera, or which brand of butter!
Everyone will have their own views and their own reasons for their views. Try as many as you can, learn to use each one to it's fullest capabilities and then choose for yourself. You'll probably end up at a different conclussion 'cos you're most likely coming at it from a different direction.
To some extend it seems to matter how powerful your PC is too!
Thanks for your comments guys - they are very useful. Normally I use PS raw, which was going ok but then I downloaded the Capture one demo and it seems the image quality is far superior. In fact I'd go to say it makes the PS Raw images look a little soft.
However, there are things in PS Raw that I like - which on the demo of CO LE I can't see are available such as the ability to set the crop size and to be able to rotate your cropping box. Is this available on the full version? I'm sure there are other notable differences, just haven't had time to find them yet.
Rob
Quote: Capture One vs Photoshop RAW vs Rawshooter?
Try 'Lightroom'... 
If you use Nikon, try Capture NX.
you can still get the FREE Rawshooter essentials from this site here
http://www.download.com/3000-12511_4-10518796.html
Quote: which on the demo of CO LE I can't see are available such as the ability to set the crop size and to be able to rotate your cropping box. Is this available on the full version?
Yes, also in the LE version of C1 v4 - the beta is downloadable now.
The crop and rotate tool is in the C1 Version 4 B, but to be honest I am not convinced you need it as I tend to have to finish off the image in a photo editor, (true for all the RAW tools mentioned) things like crop, re-size and sharpen are best done there.
but that is my personal opinion.
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