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

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Hamuko an hour ago | parent [-]

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.

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throw0101d an hour ago | parent | next [-]

> 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.)

	▲	dylan604 an hour ago \| parent [-]
		> AIUI, they don't backport things like that. Ugh, that's horrible. Needing a full app update to handle this minor updates is annoying. The one thing that I did appreciate about Adobe's Camera RAW is that it was constantly being updated with new profiles that would work with whatever version of software being used.

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weezing an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

391 euro for a piece of software seems kinda crazy.

	▲	Arainach 43 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		That's less than €1/hour for how much time I've spent using Capture One. Good, ergonomic, efficient tools are worth their weight in gold. C1 is one of them. Importing/triage, editing, color profiles, tethered shooting - it's an incredibly powerful suite and works well. For particularly problematic noisy/dark shots I'll do manual editing in DXO, but I do everything else in C1.