Let us let the photos do the talking. My overall comments are at the end. I encourage you to make your own conclusions.

Conversions from PhaseOne’s CaptureOne Pro 7.02 beta (C1) are at the bottom of each set. There are a LOT of options to deal with with C1 – I ended up using something like this: Sharpening Amount 250, Radius 0.8, Threshold 0.0. No noise reduction. In Noise Reduction Advanced I used Details 50 and Fine Grain 10. The conversions for the other softwares are the same as before.

I added one more comparison at the bottom – conversions from DPReview’s studio scene.

 

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CaptureOne 7.02 is good. Not super-fabulous-amazing like some on the internet have been claiming.

It renders green foliage a bit better than AccuRaw. C1 is still maybe a tiny bit behind the in-camera JPEG in the foliage scenes.

It does a fairly good job with the  moire/false-detail suppression. AccuRaw does a bit better on the DPReview scene at controlling the maze pattern in the red fabric in the top right. There is a moire-slider in the CaptureOne software, but it doesn’t seem to do anything in this scene. CaptureOne does a better job with the moire-control in the rooftop comparison, though.

I think we’re at the point where a combo of AccuRaw/CaptureOne can effectively match the in-camera JPEG.

From a long-time RAW-only shooter, it is aggravating that this has taken so long. Frankly, this has a lot to do with Fuji’s in-camera conversion being so good (unlike, say, Canon or Nikon). Fuji set the bar high and now we finally are seeing third-parties rising to the challenge.

(It is interesting that while Fuji claims X-Trans tackles moire at the “root cause,” we can clearly see it struggles in some situations……)