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I went to a macro-abstract (or was that an abstract-macro) workshop with my camera club today. The weather was poor and they were cutting the grass outside so we had to do everything inside and the light was pretty poor. Since I was shooting at high ISO I thought this was a good time to compare the big denoise contenders.
Methodology: The original Raw file was from a Canon R5 imported into LR with a Neutral Adobe Preset, Lens corrections applied, sharpening set to default. The ISO was 12800 1/250 sec f/5.0 (I was hand holding and even with the wonderful stability of the camera and the lens my left hand tremor requires some pretty good shutter speed to get crisp images.) I went to 100% in Lightroom and then ran the same image through 1. LR AI Denoise (new release) 2. DxO Pure Raw 3 3. Topaz Denoise - Raw 4. Topaz Denoise - Low light. 5. Nik Dfine 2. Here are the 5 with the originalplus the original
I think that DxO did the best job, although there is a slight color shift. The new LR/Camera Raw AI denoise was second best followed by Topaz Denoise for low light and finally Topaz Denoise Raw and the the Nik Define
. What are your thoughts?
Methodology: The original Raw file was from a Canon R5 imported into LR with a Neutral Adobe Preset, Lens corrections applied, sharpening set to default. The ISO was 12800 1/250 sec f/5.0 (I was hand holding and even with the wonderful stability of the camera and the lens my left hand tremor requires some pretty good shutter speed to get crisp images.) I went to 100% in Lightroom and then ran the same image through 1. LR AI Denoise (new release) 2. DxO Pure Raw 3 3. Topaz Denoise - Raw 4. Topaz Denoise - Low light. 5. Nik Dfine 2. Here are the 5 with the originalplus the original
I think that DxO did the best job, although there is a slight color shift. The new LR/Camera Raw AI denoise was second best followed by Topaz Denoise for low light and finally Topaz Denoise Raw and the the Nik Define
. What are your thoughts?