Revisiting and Returning to Lightroom

Adobe can pat themselves on the back for many of the new features they’ve implemented into Lightroom in recent years. I’m thoroughly impressed, especially with their denoise feature. I’ve switched between Lightroom and Capture One throughout the years for various reasons, but now I really appreciate what Lightroom does in terms of digital asset management. I find it much easier to organize, sort, and rename images.

My images live on a large external drive in a RAID array and for some reason Capture One has a problem renaming them, often taking 15+ minutes to rename a group of about 500 images. This only started around the release of Capture One 20. I’ve searched for years for a fix to the issue to no avail. The same group of images in Lightroom takes mere seconds. I think Adobe has a better understanding of software development so optimization for different setups is generally flawless. Although I do love many of the features Capture One affords.

Between the two of them I think the Capture One image looks slightly better but it’s splitting hairs. I prefer the overall experience of Lightroom and will be switching back. Capture One will mainly be used for tethering which I think is still the superior experience between the two programs.. Now if only Adobe would an ability to set custom shortcut keys.