wryphotography
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Doug, no offense, but you really are coming across as total team phase one.Additional variables beyond lens quality:
- dark frame technology
- raw processing
Both are very important especially at the fringes (especially high ISO or especially long exposures). The guys who developed the IQ250 hardware are down the hall from, work with, drink with, and otherwise tightly coordinate with the guys making the software. The software guys at C1 also have a very strong incentive to spend lots of extra time tweaking C1's processing of IQ250 files to get the very most out of the files, and they had access to prototype samples for months before the launch (see the Phase One IQ250 story I wrote).
For a more valid comparison you'd want to wait until you can run raws through LR to compare. Only time will tell how much time Adobe spends on catering their processing to get the most out of those raw files.
What you say is good about the software developers and hardware developers being able to have direct access to each other.
But at the end of the day, I have run my IQ180 files through Lightroom and Capture One and I prefer Lightroom's interface where everything is in the develop tab vs capture one, white balance is in a different area than other color editing options.
I am pretty reliably able to get good results from the files out of both editors.
helicon focus has a plugin for lightroom i believe.yes. but with lightroom you can easily export photos as advanced object in photoshop and with a click had images stacked. i don't know if the results can keep up with helicon results, never tried. but in my opioni lightroom is very flexible. personally i tried capture one and is probably the worst software i have ever tried. but maybe i never studied it deeply.
I have compared it to stacking with photoshop and its really no contest, helicon is way better.
@Guy - I am curious why you think canikon is dying. I purchased a d800e after selling my IQ180 and its a great little(i use this term loosely) camera. Is it medium format? Nope but it is flexible enough for me to do more with it than I could the IQ180.
Don't get me wrong I would really love to have another IQ160 or 180 but the price is just too much for me right now.