19/12/2024
Over most of the last decade, my primary photography software has been Capture One.
Alas, as of the last update, the manufacturer decided to not only make it impossible to use, their license management "feature" insists on running a (buggy) web server on my workstation, without asking permission.
As this "solution" not only makes the software impossible for me to run on a technical level (because the "service" is so utterly buggy), it also adds a HUGE risk of customer data and photos becoming compromised and shared across the internet if I left the software installed (which I didn't. I caught this in time before anything really bad could happen.)
Now what will this mean for you?
Well, it does add some (temporary, I hope) extra time needed for the post process after a photoshoot. I've had to revert back to Adobe Photoshop Lightroom (The "Lightroom Classic" version that doesn't add all your photos to "the cloud"), which will take me some time to relearn.
It also means that my "back catalog" of photos (i.e. any photo taken before yesterday) will take a lot of time and effort to recatalog. So please keep those requests to a minimum.
Of course, given their rather arrogant "we don't care about our customer's computer security issues" attitude, I've canceled my subscription for Capture One over this. Not only do I see no reason to fund a non-functional piece of software (which it currently is, not matter how superior the core software is), I will not use my hard earned money to finance the paychecks of people willing to risk my customers' data for their own greed.
