![]() Real world stuff business processing stuff can be very expensive indeed. The costs in that respect are, in my experience, a lot lower than one might be asked to pay for other types of Professional Business software. Certainly if something if cheap enough (and appears to be sustainable at that price) I might decide to buy in and then not really care about its future if it is not a main part of my processing and especially if what it does is, basically, a cheaper clone of a product that could, if necessary, replace it should my requirement move that way.īear in mind that you and your wife, as prolific users of many hardware tools, presumably bought at some costs, could perhaps consider a multi-user licence as a professional user and thus obtain a reduced "per seat" cost of usage rights. We, as consumers, decide whether to buy in or not. The thing is, Ian, you have to allow that companies do their own market analysis for feature functionality and pricing and choose their business development options accordingly. As a business model it presumably works for them although I suspect that, like Adobe, their main income stream come form products other than photo editing and especially RAW conversion. But sure, I will buy at the price offered. Nothing wrong with the products - just that I rarely need them. Over the year I have spent a lot of money with them (by your assessment) for a lot of products I have hardly ever used. Why should they?įWIW I ave for many year boguth Serif products. I'm not sure that the Serif guys even think about C1 in any way. įor much the same reasons I find Affinity to be somewhat un-natural (compared to Capture One) but then it has different opbectives and approaches matters in a different way. Presumably you also, after 25 years, know the history of LightZone from when it was a commercial offering.įWIW I never got to grips with Photoshop (yes, I know, an entirely different product as it is not a RAW converter). I am slightly surprised that with all of your experience - and I note you have LightZone - that you find the C1 interface "rather obscure". If so, in part, you are preaching to the choir and in part you are, possibly, offending people by referring to them as "fanboys". You maybe already know that this is a User to User forum primarily. ![]() Reduce the price, increase the licence seat numbers. So my feature request is simple, get it to the masses and see it take off. The pricing is far too high and the licencing too restrictive to buy the software. I know only 1 photographer of literally hundreds who uses Capture One and to be honest he is not that good (yet) so is not an ideal model. When my wife and I present our work we get more questions about paper used but secondly we get asked about how and in what software we processed it? Capture One will take off when the word gets out and it is getting used more but that is not happening. Take a look at Affinity and see what can be had for £50 and then get your marketing guys and business modellers to see if Capture Ones licensing models will be sustainable? Unfortunately I doubt it. Capture One will continue to be niche software with low take up and the subscription model is a non-starter for most. It just is not going to happen and talking to many other photographers they are of the same mind and opinion. But are we expected to buy at least 2 licences and maybe many more? Yes a purchased Capture One licence is 'user' based and allows 2 installs. We both have a powerful desktop PC as well as a laptop and a tablet each. In my household both my wife and I are enthusiast photographers, indeed we have presented our work to other photographic clubs. Let me be clear here, Capture One is not cheap and in an age where both cheaper alternatives are available and software generally has become much much cheaper, Capture One and its licence policy is rather an anachronism. There is still a towering elephant in the room. The interface is rather obscure and esoteric but its functionality is coming to me (slowly). However now Capture One have released a free Express version for Nikon myself and a few others have taken a closer look. I am certain others will have posted on this subject already.
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