Adding exported files to catalogue: LR vs C1

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In LR, I set it up to export processed files to the same folder as the originals, and add them to the catalogue, which it then does automatically without further fuss.

In C1, I haven't found an equivalent procedure, and manually importing (files that I've just exported) takes ages as C1 scans an entire folder twice - once to detect duplicates & exclude them from the selection, and again during actual import. What am I missing?

I've just thought of a workaround. But I feel I shouldn't need one, and it adds an extra step or two ...
 
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I realise that people have different workflows, but has nobody got any clues, on an entire photography forum ...?
 
droj said:
I realise that people have different workflows, but has nobody got any clues, on an entire photography forum ...?
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I don't use C1 catalogues, but is this issue with the synchronise folder option? That's what used to use, and there have been some improvement in recent releases.

I can't remember it being a particularly slow, but it will depend on how many images are in the folder I assume, and my folders usually only have a small number of images.
 
Ah, thanks Graham. I hadn't discovered synchronising, and from a brief try it seems to do the trick. Now I feel much better!

My next issue is that I can't find a way to make a bespoke lens profile - my lenses are pre-digital and aren't listed in the drop-down menu. With LR, I could correct for barrel distortion, say, and colour aberration, and save a preset for each lens. But it's not just that - the CA / fringing controls in C1 seem a bit lacking in ability too, compared to LR.

So choosing what application I go forward with for raw processing is a balancing act.
 
droj said:
Ah, thanks Graham. I hadn't discovered synchronising, and from a brief try it seems to do the trick. Now I feel much better!

My next issue is that I can't find a way to make a bespoke lens profile - my lenses are pre-digital and aren't listed in the drop-down menu. With LR, I could correct for barrel distortion, say, and colour aberration, and save a preset for each lens. But it's not just that - the CA / fringing controls in C1 seem a bit lacking in ability too, compared to LR.

So choosing what application I go forward with for raw processing is a balancing act.
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You can go into the manual lens correction tools, you can make adjustments for sharpness fall off, light fall off, and barrel/pincushion distortion and save as a preset. It's the tool tab that looks a bit like a front lens element.

The distortion slider automatically changes from barrel to pincushion depending on focal length, which isn't much use for lenses that C1 doesn't recognise. I am sure there is a way of manually selecting this, but can't remember how.

You should, if you don't already, manually run the CA analysis on every lens, even if the lens is recognised and has a built in profile. C1 says the CA correction is set up for an average copy of profiled lens, and will vary between individual lenses of the same make and model, so you should run the analysis. Having said that, I have a sneaking suspicion, that C1 automatically runs the CA analysis if the lens doesn't have a profile.

The purple fringing correction, I agree isn't as good as some other programs.
The other thing, that offers more improvements than the obvious, is the diffraction correction, but again it needs to know the lens focal length and aperture to work.

My manual lenses are/ have all been Nikon AI lenses on Nikons which allows aperture and focal length to be stored in the EXIF (assuming I set it up) so all these things work for me.

If you get stuck, get back to me, as I may well be able to to find an answer quicker than you can, or may actually already know.
 
It seems that you can use the "movement" option under lens correction tab to manually set the focal length and aperture if it hasn't been recorded in the exif.

This seems to be a collation of lens correction help for C1, including LCC profiles that allow you to correct for light fall off and lens colour casts by taking a reference image that C1 will analyse. I actually bought the official C1 lens diffuser/filter to do this, but any semi - opaque diffuser material is meant to work


 
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