Canon User/Capture One

[cbserota]

Just purchased a Canon 1DX Mark II.  Canon tech support recommends their free raw software-Canon DPP4. 
   Any recommendations and advice would be appreciated.
     Thanks

            Charley

[David Grover / Capture One]

Just purchased a Canon 1DX Mark II.  Canon tech support recommends their free raw software-Canon DPP4. 
   Any recommendations and advice would be appreciated.
     Thanks

            Charley

Naturally Canon would suggest that, as naturally I would suggest using Capture One. 

I assume you want to tether the Canon as you mention DPP?

Capture One has a free 30 day trial, so you have nothing to lose in experimenting.

For a full run down on working tethered and file management, have a look at.

https://youtu.be/vCFgMWaALoA

David

[cbserota]

David--I have no interest in tethering--just looking for the best image quality possible.  Canon's point is that their software is directly engineered for their cameras. They don't provide information to 3rd party developers, so Capture One and others need to reverse engineer the software. 

[Bart_van_der_Wolf]

David--I have no interest in tethering--just looking for the best image quality possible.  Canon's point is that their software is directly engineered for their cameras. They don't provide information to 3rd party developers, so Capture One and others need to reverse engineer the software.

Hi,

While there are (probably) some unused proprietary features in the Canon Raws, the main task of a Raw converter is to achieve a high-quality Demosaicing of the Raw data. In my experience, Capture One and RawTherapee provide the best conversions on both Mac OS, and MS Windows OS. Capture One currently even achieve a higher resolution conversion, with fewer artifacts than most other converters.

After the demosaicing step, there are many possible ways of processing the still in linear gamma Raw demosaiced data. Good profiles and good resampling are often the basic factors for success, the rest of the tools help with an efficient workflow.

Cheers,
Bart

[mediumcool]

Just purchased a Canon 1DX Mark II.  Canon tech support recommends their free raw software-Canon DPP4. 

Try both. Nowt to lose.

[Bob Rockefeller]

Canon's software, while free, is pretty clunky and somewhat limited in its scope of image adjustments. as several have said, try both and decide from that.

[tcphoto1]

For years, I thought that Canon's software must be better because it was developed by Canon and surely it had advantages over external developers. I could not have been more wrong and I can admit it. I tried the free trial from CaptureOne many years ago and did not care for it but version 8 changed my mind. It is now my go to lone image processor and is becoming more intuitive the more I use it.