Instead, the price of the upgrade was unchanged and even more than buying a new license at BF as displayed in the screenshots of the OP !! So their statement "Reduced price every time you upgrade if you have a license" is not true. If you missed the pre-release promotion - or didn't want to pay blindly before knowing the - actually minor - improvements of v23, there was no discount of the regular upgrade anymore at Black Friday in the account. To be polite, their pricing has become absurd and inappropriate, at least. So even if I come to the conclusion to upgrade one more time for now, I doubt that I will continue to pay the increasing price every year just for the support of an optional new camera - if on the other hand C1 furthermore focuses primarily on the wedding, studio and fashion community and increasingly neglects useful advancements and progress for nature photographers. This means that you pay € 220.- just for the support of the new camera and you're hooked every time you invest in a new body no matter if a future release is worth it feature-wise. So I have to decide if I bite the bullet to upgrade once again - in contradiction to my statement above, though C1-23 basically offers nothing for nature photographers compared to the previous version C1-22 and not much over C1-21. That said, I've just seen that my C1-version 21 doesn't support my relatively new Canon R3 - I'd need C1-22, at least. In fact a switch would require a time-consuming learning curve. So I think both alternatives have caught up at some point in the meantime and all have their strengths and weaknesses. But then there's the subscription route I always have refused to go. Nevertheless, from what I've seen from the excellent tutorials and results by Greg Basco & Keith Bauer and others, LR has significantly improved and expanded the options, too. I also judged C1 always to be superior for detail and colors up to now. I believe that my experiences and skills in C1 are much better, too, compared to DxO or LR - after using CaptureOne for almost 40 years.
Well for me, as a Fuji and Sony shooter, Capture One is significantly superior to the alternatives so I would not even consider switching, not to mention my proficiency level with C1 compared to having to learn something else… The clock adjustments may be nice if you use several cameras but that alone won't justify the price of the upgrade for me. At least, I was hoping for a better and more flexible implementation of HDR and Pano in v23, - not to mention other useful tools and progresses, such as the long- demanded History, AI etc.
Apart from that, v22 already didn't offer much over v21 for nature photogs. For the first time, I had skipped v 22 because the new HDR and Pano functionalities are pretty rudimentary compared to the competitors. I have been using CaptureOne since v1 and upgraded every new realease up to v 21. The smart adjustments are worthless for other motifs not including faces. It looks like they incleasingly just focus on wedding and studio photographers. The new version is extremely disappointing for nature photographers. To my regret it's probably time to look elsewhere after decades of using C1 once newer cameras aren't supported anymore So I won't spend the money for v23 and will stay with v21 as long as possible.
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