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Re: Darktable

#51

Post by throw0101d »

Hamuko wrote: post #50
wmfiv wrote: post #24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Not getting into which solution is better, but Capture One is at least 50% more expensive than Lightroom. It's a material difference.

Lightroom is 15.29 €/month and Capture One can be had for a one-time payment of 391 €. Lightroom is the more expensive one if you plan on using the software more than 2 years and 2 months.

> Lightroom is 15.29 €/month and Capture One can be had for a one-time payment of 391 €.

Also worth considering how often you change camera bodies: if you get a new one you may have to upgrade CO to get support for the new RAW format. (AIUI, they don't backport things like that.)

Re: Darktable

#52

Post by vjvjvjvjghv »

I have tried to get used to Darktable for more than 2 years but finally gave up and went back to Lightroom. For some reason it never clicked with me and made me almost lose interest in photography . And the AI stuff like masking in the latest Lightroom versions is crazy good.

I am generally really impressed with what the Darktable are delivering but somehow it just doesn’t come together for me personally.

Re: Darktable

#53

Post by weezing »

I found Darktable to have very steep learning curve while RAWtherapee felt perfect immediately. Never used other software like that before besides some Photoshop.

Re: Darktable

#54

Post by weezing »

Hamuko wrote: post #50
wmfiv wrote: post #24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Not getting into which solution is better, but Capture One is at least 50% more expensive than Lightroom. It's a material difference.

Lightroom is 15.29 €/month and Capture One can be had for a one-time payment of 391 €. Lightroom is the more expensive one if you plan on using the software more than 2 years and 2 months.

391 euro for a piece of software seems kinda crazy.

Re: Darktable

#55

Post by vjvjvjvjghv »

actionfromafar wrote: post #2

https://github.com/aurelienpierreeng/ansel

I am always amazed at how much Aurelian Pierre is able to produce. But I think he is too smart for his own good and also too opinionated to be a good leader of an open source community.

Makes me admire Linus Thorvalds even more. He is super smart, opinionated by also was able to keep a huge community on track for decades.

Re: Darktable

#56

Post by wizzledonker »

pnut wrote: post #17
randomstate wrote: post #3

Ditched Adobe Lightroom 10+ years ago in favour of Darktable and never looked back. It was the first FOSS software, which showed me how green the grass can get.

Pretty sure Darktable only supports openCL and not Metal for MacOS. OpenCL is unsupported for M1/2/3/4/5, which makes RAW file processing, batch workflows, basically everything, unusably slow. Unless something has changed in the past few months, Darktable is dead on MacOS with no fix in sight.

I use it on Mac - I didn’t notice too much. There’s some GPU usage, I assume Apple still has some deprecated OpenCL drivers kicking around that it knows to use.

Re: Darktable

#58

Post by tristor »

I have tried to switch to Darktable multiple times over the years, it never has worked for me properly in my workflows. I'm still solidly on Lightroom Classic + DxO Photo Lab + Photomatix/Zerene Stacker (for stacking/HDR/bracketing)

Re: Darktable

#59

Post by vjvjvjvjghv »

Mashimo wrote: post #46
bix6 wrote: post #39

I am switching soon. I hear a lot of people complain about the catalog management. What solutions have you found?

> What solutions have you found? * Putting the photos in folders, based on dates and event name. * over a decade ago I used digiKam in parallelle with Darktable.

Same for me. Managing images in Darktable alone is terrible but with Digikam it’s quite doable.

Re: Darktable

#60

Post by BeetleB »

flipthefrog wrote: post #22
tokai wrote: post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Private equity owed proprietary Mac and Windows exclusive. No thanks.

Want the best software for editing photos? No thanks, I'd rather use inferior open source solutions. Go Gimp

Upvoting you, because I actually use Gimp. While it has its headaches, for photo editing it's still the best after Photoshop.

(Yes, still better than Krita).

But this is all a digression, as Lightroom/Darktable are not Photoshop/Gimp replacements. Not even the same category.

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