Stan - LR is not a bad tool, but its keep lacking proper skin rendering. C1 and LC do those things way better so far, IMHO. Only issue with C1 is that its a wee bit flaky with pre-AptusII leaf backs (as in - crashing, having issues with processing and such, but in all fairness - less in 5.2 than it used to be in 5.0).
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Anders, out of curiousity - when you do same RAW processing with default values ("as shot"), no corection - C1 vs LC - do you get more grain but a bit more details from LC like i do with my 54s?
There is always a balance struck between increasing detail extraction (real, not perceived) and increasing granularity/noise. Capture One has always erred towards the side of detail extraction even when grain goes up somewhat.
C1 5.0 was the first version that supported Leaf file. 5.1 was better for Leaf, 5.2 was yet again better for Leaf and I would expect that trend to continue until you see no meaningful difference between the support/stability/quality of working with Leaf vs. Phase.
I would strongly suggest Capture One over Leaf Capture. If learning a new program is intimidating just select [Window > Workspace > Simplified] and most of the tools will go away and the entire program will be less intimidating (without losing any of the processing quality). When your ready the "Default" Workspace will bring them all back.
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