Capture One does take a little time to master - Lots of tabs hide controls for everything you’ll ever need, and some of the terminology used is unique to Capture One - EC is Exposure Compensation, CC is Contrast Compensation and CS is Colour Saturation plus images are developed, not converted or processed - but once you get the hang of it, converting RAW files is very fast. Noise reduction is set automatically by default- bottom of the panel on the left - but can be turned off.

Capture One images generally need no, or very little other work after conversion. That saves a huge amount of time in Photoshop in comparison to most packages. It’s so much better than doing everything twice. The program also allows you to work through images converting and saving each one as you go - processing images in the background as you work on the next. I’m sure you get the picture by now - I like Capture One.

So far I’ve only used Capture One with Fuji S2 files - excellent - and with Canon EOS 5D files - good for portraits but RawShooter is better for detail.

I’ll add to this review as I make more tests