Generally speaking, a ceiling of $200-$300 per year for a core piece of somewhat specialised software is not that ridiculous. Obviously, the pricing is getting rather excessive. Don’t worry, I’ve got a long list of grievances against Capture One: Again, is that the basis for creative choice? Hey, a Kodak-branded Chinese Point & Shoot is WAAAY cheaper than a Nikon Z7!īut that’s just me. So yes, an Adobe Photography Subscription is (much) cheaper than a Capture One subscription.
But I think I can live with Affinity Photo for the few things Capture One can’t do. Photoshop? Well, of course, Rome remains Rome.
Lr Mobile is certainly very nice to have, but the UI is not pleasant. Bridge is a clunky disaster area which seems to get worse with every update. Yes, the Adobe Photography Subscription, offers, on the face of it, a fantastic deal. First of all to me Lightroom controls seem very unsubtle, and second they all interact with each other, following a Grown-Ups Know Best model apparently based what Thomas Knoll thought photos should look like. With Lightroom it is nearly impossible to reproduce. In Capture One my basic process is this: adjust exposure, balance shadows and highlights, adjust contrast with a Luma curve. But more important, for my tastes, it is an absolute battle to get any kind of attractive output from it. I dislike Lightroom for two reasons: one, it has an awful User Interface which makes it an absolute drag to use. And a lot of people are very happy with Lightroom. So after several years of Adobe as The Great Satan, suddenly they’re all saints rolled into one.īut anyway, as Paul Reiffer put it, even skipping the false claim (well, false for now, I’m not that naive) that Capture One is forcing you into subscriptions, does any serious photographer really make core creative decisions based on whether or not there’s a subscription model involved? I certainly don’t.Īdobe (and DxO, and Exposure, and Iridient) make great software. They both need to pay their staff, keep the lights on, and keep the markets happy. Neither Capture One nor Adobe are charities.
#Capture one vs iridient developer upgrade#
Then, they coerced people into upgrading, by drastically reducing the cutoff for upgrade eligibility from previous versions - only to kill off upgrades altogether a short time later.īut whatever - this is how commerce works.
So Joe Photographer everywhere screamed he was going back to Adobe, which offers way better value for money (I’ll get on to that later), Joe of course forgetting how outraged he was when Adobe, faced with a similar dilemma, not only summarily dropped perpetual licences altogether, but also played a very nasty trick on customers a few months prior to going subscription only with their Creative Suite upgrade policy change. And although their messaging was pretty flawed, actually I think they’ve come up with a fair compromise between offering choice to their customers and remaining a viable company, attractive to investors. Since there are clear financial reasons for software companies to try to persuade their clients to move to a subscription model, this must have presented a serious commercial dilemma for Capture One. So perpetual was more flexible, and on top of that did not lock you in perpetuity to a subscription. The problem here is that perpetual licenses also got that benefit, and the perpetual upgrade pricing was not very different to a subscription. A major touted benefit of the subscription model was that you get new features when they’re ready, not just at major release points (yearly in Capture One’s case). It’s pretty clear why they made this move: some time ago, they introduced a subscription model running alongside the perpetual model. The to-be offer is much the same, only it removes the feature upgrades part, and can be bought at any time to cover the then-current product feature set. In addition, any feature upgrades added up until the next major release you also get to use. In a nutshell, the current offer is that you can buy a “perpetual” license, which will give you long term rights to use a particular release of the software, for as long as you meet the hardware / operating system requirement. The photointerwebs, or at least that part which is interested in Capture One, exploded in a orgy of demonstrative outrage last week, when a new pricing model was announced for Capture One software.
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