[busyant]

> I'm currently giving Capture One a shot

This is what I use, too.

I did a lot of side-by-side comparisons between C1 & DT on my raw files and I could not get DT to make anything that looked like C1's automatic adjustments.

The best I could determine is that the out-of-the-box adjustments made by C1 were somewhat complex (e.g., it wasn't a 'simple' transformation of rgb values).

Obviously, it's preferable to know what's happening under the hood instead of relying on black-magic, but I just didn't have the time to invest in trying to figure that out.

C1 is really nice. I also compared it to Lightroom and I didn't like those results as much as C1.

edit: Although C1's masking features are excellent, I wish they had more parametric masking features. That's the one thing I miss from DT.