Hi
I´m planning to migrate from Lightroom to C1 but haven´t found yet answer to some questions:
Is c1 fully parametric as LR, even with layers and sharpening?. I found through thye years the value of preserving the original files and redevelope them with newer software versions.
How many files, roughly, can it hold in one catalog? C1 says thousands but that means nothing to any serioous photographer. Is it 2.000, 200.000 or 1 million?
For me working with a single catalog is Paramount so I can go forth and back on the searchs among around 170.000 photographs.
Any suggestions about a really good book and or tutorials to learn the software in full. I´ve been working for 8 years with LR and came to a pretty nice understanding about it, so changing will take quite some effort and time.
It's fully parametric.
In theory number of files in the catalogue is unlimited, in practice this seems to vary tremendously from user to user. Some say it's unusable with 30 - 40, 000 or even less, others say they are having no problems with a few hundred thousand images.
Phase One seem to make minor to major improvements with every point release, so comments are often out of date with actual performance.
Unlike LR, you can have multiple catalogues open at the same time with C1, so you could split catalogues up if you were having a problem, and run duplicate searches, but there is no automated way of doing this.
My experience suggests C1 is (much) slower to load the catalogue than LR (but this is meant to have improved with recent releases), but once loaded it works (much) more quickly than LR, especially in terms of rendering previews. But judging from comments from others, there are some types of searches that are very slow in C1 ( I can't remember what they are).
How satisfactory the catalogue is in C1 seems to come down to personal requirements and expectations.
There is a lot of help around for C1, a lot can be found by searching/browsing through this forum. For example, there was a very recent post on a tutorial to get you started with C1.
But, a good starting point is the C1 Youtube channel.
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCJgJWICGMzzvXk2wIgqxVEQ/videosBut there is also a fair amount of other related material on Youtube.
Lynda.com and Creative Live do paid for courses on C1
The only book I am aware of, is this one.
https://rockynook.com/shop/photography/capture-one-pro-10/It's useful, but doesn't go that deep.
Cheers,
Graham