I feel that the image from Capture One has more vibrant colours, the fine details of the petals, and the water droplets on the petals are clearer, and the bokeh is smoother.
The same file was imported into Lightroom and Capture One, and then exported as a jpeg without making any manual adjustments in either software. This first image is a comparison of a jpeg export. I’ve used this image as it’s simple, has clean, crisp, clear colours without too many fine details to distract from the sharpness of the image elements. As I feel that Capture One has the best results, the comparisons are all with Lightroom and Capture One. So this post is to show a few comparison images taken from a 100% crop of the title image. Meet our new project GRAIN Magazine and subscribe for a LIFETIME membership. I feel that the quality of the import in Capture One is the one that suits me best. After a few tests, it was quite clear which one was better, but I carried on and tested with different images, as well as images taken with various lenses, just to be sure. I wanted to compare the import of each of them.
I decided to try some other software for comparison, including Affinity Photo, OV3, and Capture One. It turns out that native RAW conversion for Olympus images in Lightroom isn’t quite what it could be. This comment triggered a thought about RAW conversion. Well the worry is over, thanks to a friend who commented on the brightness of an image. Although every other aspect of the camera is great, I was starting to doubt whether the speed, portability and weather proofing were worth the loss of sharpness in the image. I felt there was a touch too much noise, adding an ever so slight but very annoying blur to the images. I’ve had some concerns about the sharpness of the images from the Olympus.