Program: Capture One Pro 8 (8.3.3) Platforms Tested Available: Mac, Windows Price: $299 Installation: Very usual. Wholly unremarkable. Just as it should be. To be perfectly honest, I had no plans to test Capture One. It currently doesn’t support files from the Olympus C5050, a 13 year old camera that I enjoy playing with from time to time, and …
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That’s not the only question… It’s also a question of whether to upgrade at all.
Program: Lightroom CC (2015) Platforms Tested Available: Mac, Windows Price: $9.99 per month (with Photoshop CC and Lightroom Mobile); Lightroom 6 is also available, without PS & the other CC stuff and without some updates, for $149 or $79 to upgrade from LR5 Installation: Must first download and install the Creative Cloud. From there, you can try or …
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Program: Lightroom Mobile Platforms Tested Available: iPhone, Android Price: “free” as part of the $9.99/month CC Photography plan (with Lightroom CC and Photoshop CC and some other goodies) Installation: its a usual download from the app store, but it won’t work without a Creative Cloud membership and one of the monthly plans. With my 30 day trial of …
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Program: darktable (1.6.3; updated to 1.6.7 late in the review process) Platforms Available Tested: Linux, Mac, Windows Installation: normal download dmg & drag app to Applications folder (or wherever you like). Easy. darktable is probably the closest to Lightroom that you’ll find in the open source space. With the exception of user-definable albums (they’re called Film Rolls in darktable, and they’re …
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The Ansco was/is a beautiful film. I’m glad to have another roll to shoot… I think I’ll stick it in the freezer for now, and use it for something special. And the R3 Monobath is an excellent, easy developer. I look forward to using it again… I should probably pick up a couple of rolls …
So 50 year old Ansco still has some life in it and the R3 works very well and is super easy to use, but I encountered three problems. A couple are obviously user error, probably all of them are. Please. If you have any advice or suggestions, please please please pass them on.
