Capture One 22 vs Lightroom Classic - NEW Update PANORAMA & HDR Challenge!

the time has come capture 122 just come out with two brand new additions most users wear waiting for a while the panorama and the hdr merge functionality hi everyone what's going on since you enjoyed so much my previous video capture one in lightroom about differences in raw engine and sharpening i thought it was nice to make a new side-by-side comparison between the two just focusing on the new features my go-to software for stitching panels has always been a lightroom and i didn't have any issue with it so far quick and simple workflow an excellent result but what about capture one in this video i'm gonna focus on a few things like differences in the ui between capture one and lightroom and the options available the panorama and hdr merge performance in terms of rendering merging time and possible issues on stitching a large number of images then the image quality when you look at the detail the color the artifacts and photos alignments and the output dng file size let's start with the panorama stitching [Music] i selected some different images captured with different cameras to better understand the capabilities of both software but before diving to the test let's take a look at capture one's panorama interface to access the panorama panel we need to select at least a couple of images and then we can find the merging function up here in the top bar menu under image and stitch to panorama or just right click over one of the images on the browser window and select stitch to panorama the panorama panel is pretty simple with a clean interface and few frills we've got the main big window with panorama preview on the top left corner there is a projection section with the four different options spherical cylindrical perspective and panini so these are basically the same projection we find in lightroom except for the new panini right below we have the stitched size module that allows you to reduce the exported file to a smaller size this is actually a really cool addition especially when you need to experiment with the panel before deciding if it's worth the high-res exporting and on the bottom we have the resizable film stripper with the selected images so pretty straight forward nothing too fancy on the other hand lightroom doesn't provide the panini projection and the exporter resize option but it features other powerful stuffs like the boundary warp slider to warp the image filling the white gap so you don't need to crop the panel losing important areas of it the autocrop function to crop the image but creating a thinner panel and losing some detailed areas the fill edges which is another option that comes in handy to fill the white gaps when the warp become too noticeable the auto settings will attempt to process the image i would recommend you leave this unchecked and process it after the merging phase and then the create stack very handy to group the images i used for the panel stitching into a single folder for a cleaner film strip view after this general overview let's have a look at the performance i'm gonna start with this sequence of three horizontal images taken with the fujifilm xt2 and our goal is to see if there is any difference between the two software in terms of rendering time and merging speed i'm gonna select the three shots right click stitch to panorama capture one is now generating the preview using the spherical preset it took about seven seconds to render the preview now i'm gonna hit stitch and let's see how long it takes to merge the images and create our master dng file okay it took roughly 16 seconds let's try the panini projection even though it's not meant to be used with this kind of images but rather architecture the process took over 40 seconds so more than double the time now i'm gonna try merging the same sequence in lightroom i'm going to select the same images right click photo merge and select panorama the preview rendering time is a bit slower than in capture one now we are going to select the spherical option i leave everything uncheck them i'm going to select merge here we go the merging process took around 13 seconds so it's a bit faster okay without wasting your time going through different scenarios i already made several tests and here i have a chart nothing too technical with some results on merging different types of files and bigger sequences for this specific panorama as we have already seen to render the preview capture one took about seven seconds and switching to the other projection took about three seconds for the cylindrical roughly four seconds for the perspective and up to 19 20 seconds for the panini as teaching time for the spherical the stitching time is almost identical for the first three projections took about 16 seconds whereas with the panini stitching the time increased three times up to around 43 seconds the output dng file in capture one is about 45 bigger than the dng file created in lightroom and uh that's quite a lot now let's move to the next example this is a sequence of four horizontal images captured with the dji mavic 2 pro to create a vertical panel okay as you can see the differences between the two software are not huge with a slightly advantage for lightroom but the file size now is about 76 percent bigger than in lightroom as a third example we have got five horizontal images from the fujifilm gfx 50r medium formal camera here we start to see a significant difference between the two capture one is a bit faster on the first preview rendering but it takes more time on switching to the cylindrical and perspective projection by adding the three values that they match the lightroom performance actually the only exception is when we select the panini projection which takes a huge amount of time just to render i guess the process is more intense for this new one capture one is still 40 percent slower than lightroom when stitching the spherical projection with the panini stitching at about 2 minutes and 49 seconds again the dng phi is about 74 percent bigger than with lightroom that's number four let's double the number of shots using a sequence of 10 vertical images from the fujifilm xt4 and as you can tell by the black areas this is a handheld panel shot the rendering performance are slightly better in lightroom with a 55 difference in stitching speed and up to 3.28 minutes for the panini then a 62 percent difference for the dng file size now let's move to our last test i tried pushing both after a little further raising up the number of shots and here we have 19 vertical images from my older fujifilm xt2 and something interesting happened during the test capture one failed so it's not been able to render the preview with every projection lightroom did it smoothly with no issues the exporting process as well no issue at all overall capture one seems to be slower than lightroom performance is almost equal working with a small number of images like three or four but as we start adding more shots to the merger capture one starts struggling with a significant increase of the rendering and stitching time till stop rendering with the 19 images another thing to take into account is that the esported dngs are most of the time more than double the size of the lightroom version in some cases quadruple that's a lot [Music] now let's have a closer look at the image quality of the exported files the stitching process works really well i can't see no issues so the result is pretty pretty good the first thing i notice is a clear difference in colors as you can see colors look more saturated and also the contrast is higher in the panel version the details look crispier and crunchier and the image looks quite good but to be honest i would rather prefer to adjust tones and colors by myself in lightroom the merch panel looks absolutely identical to the source images no differences and neither in colors nor contrast and that's actually what i expect there are some other side effects i would point out aside from the unpredictable results in a color and tones if you use styles your images are no more consistent throughout the collection let me show you an example i'm going to apply one of my styles to this single rav file we used to create the panorama and then the same one to the panorama itself as you can see the effect is totally different the issue is even more emphasized when we want to change just the curved profile here i'm going to change the curve selecting one of the fujifilm simulations for the original file and applying the same curve to the panel the image turns out dull and nothing happens so at the moment the core profiles are not quite usable i'm pretty sure it's something they will fix on the next update one last thing is mandatory to apply the light fall off at 100 and the lens correction before stitching the images otherwise you'll end up with an uneven transition across the images here you can see the same panorama stitch with the lens correction plus the light fall off at 100 and then without the difference is pretty dramatic an interesting feature that capture one provides is the drop down menu that offers a list of scale percentages to export our final panel in a smaller resolution i quite like these additions and it's very handy when you're working with the file sequences and the resulting image quality is absolutely great here on the right is the table with some numbers to give you just a better idea of the differences in resolution memory space and stitching time okay let's move to the next addition the hdr merge [Music] bracketing is probably one of the most important techniques for a landscape photographer and we have waited a long time for this feature in capture one finally with this new release we can now merge multiple exposures so let's take a look at the main hdr window to access the hdr window we need first to select the images we want to merge together so i've got three bracketed exposure capture with the fujifilm gfx 50r a dark exposure for the highlights the average one and the overexposed for the shadows so let's click on the first one and shift click on the last one to select them all then right click and i'm gonna hit the new option merge to hdr at this point we've got two options to select the auto adjuster to apply some basic adjustments like the exposure contrast brightness and so forth these are adjustments that can be obviously further tweaked or removed after the merger i leave it alone for the moment then the outer line to align images that are not perfectly aligned this comes in handy when you need to blend multiple images short without a tripod enabling this function can slightly increase the merging time as you can tell capture one doesn't provide any other custom setting but these two check boxes lightroom features a couple of extra settings in this respect like the handy d ghost amount that helps to reduce a ghosting created from objects moving in the frame from shot to shot when you are shooting a bracketed sequence say for example people walking like a in this image or birds waves moving clouds when the images are merged together you can end up with a semi-transparent ghost of the object in different spots across the image so i'm really curious how good is capture one at handling this stuff the other missing option is a create stack to group the images used for hdr merging into a single filmstrips folder now that being said i'm gonna select merge and after a while we got a perfectly merged dng file with a wider dynamic range so actually an hdr file as we have done with the panoramic merger let's have a look at the results to see what are the differences compare with the lightroom hdr version the first thing i can see is that capture one prioritized the brightest exposure to generate the hdr preview whereas the preview in lightroom is very close to the average metered exposure but let's try to adjust the high dynamic range sliders to rebalance the brightness of the image equalizing the two versions and making a side-by-side overall comparison now i'm going to zoom in quite a lot to see where differences lie i turn to zero any sharpening and noise reduction on both software keep note the lightroom version is the merger without any the ghosting applied the blend is pretty good capture one definitely blends the exposure quite differently than lightroom with a better detailed representation right off the bat in the capture one version though i can see more color noise here on the water lightroom tends to soften some areas apparently because of the ghosting function turned off we can see also some artifacts on the water ripples on both versions capture one looks much better but the issue on the specular highlights even if at a lower level is still there now comparing these two images with the d-ghosting applied at the medium strength the artifacts in lightroom are completely gone this is the big plus of having this additional functionality however if we have a look not at the water but at this zone of the image even with the de-ghosting applied in lightroom we still have some weird artifacts capture one instead looks perfect i have another example of three bracketed exposure cut through handheld and even though i activated the outer line and the ghosting both lightroom and capture one show some ghosting around the subject in terms of merging time i prepared a couple of charts the first one is about the the example we have just seen with three shots from the gfx 50r capture one took about 41-42 seconds to generate the dng fine whereas the lightroom took 21 seconds but we have to take into account the preview rendering in lightroom which is uh about 15 seconds so the total amount is around 36 seconds again the resulting file size in capture one is much much bigger than in lightroom about 51 more another example with six exposures 30 seconds for capture one and the 19 seconds plus eight seconds for the rendering so 27 seconds for lightroom with an output dng of 120 megabyte for capture one versus 88 of lightroom overall these new two features are a nice step forward for capture one and its users don't get me wrong i mean even though both new additions are not yet fully mature we probably need to wait a little longer for an update i think they will make many photographers happy making this software more complete as i said there are some aspects i think need to be improved like the discoloration the maximum number of shots on panorama blending some additional equivalent features like the boundary warp and filled edges the issue with the film simulation and few other if you want to learn more about some of the main differences between these two programs i recommend watching this video from the channel if you are a capture one or lightroom user let me know what you think about this new update if you have any questions drop me a comment down below give the video a thumbs up if you found it useful and subscribe to the channel in the meantime thanks so much for watching and i'll see you in the next video ciao

Channel: Andrea Livieri

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Length: 15min 17sec (917 seconds)

Published: Thu Dec 09 2021