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by jquaint 1750 days ago
Slightly off topic: I recently switched to Capture One for all of my photography needs. I would highly recommend it over Lightroom. Rather than subscribing to a service you can just buy it outright.

It has all the features of Lightroom with some extras.

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Similarly I recently switched the other way. I recommend Lightroom over Capture One. The subscription is a slight downside, but Capture One is similarly expensive if you want to keep up with the latest version, I know you don't have to, but if you do it is expensive.

Moreover Capture One is missing some features which Lightroom has: The ability to filter collections based on their name. A shortcut for 'increase/decrease rating'. Filter photos for 'x stars and higher'. Show all images in a folder, including those in subalbums/subfolders. Being able to mark photos with a 'Reject' flag/rating (and easily hiding, not removing, those).

I tried switching to Capture One as well, and enjoyed using it for the most part, but I couldn't fully switch for one primary reason.

I'm still fairly new to photography and use a few preset packs that I've paid for as a base before making modifications to them to my liking. I downloaded a program that converts Lightroom presets to LUTs, and those worked decently, but they were visibly inferior due to the fact that the converter cannot handle camera/lens profiles.

I ended up just going back to Lightroom Classic for now, but hopefully once I progress enough to make my own edits from scratch I'll be able to switch back to Capture One.