Curious young Red Squirrel - “I see you...”

Unlike my Noiseware Community software, which I simply always run at Default setting, Panny's NR inserts NR artifacts which are worse than noise.  I call them blotches or frogspawn.  Even at 80-100 ISO, these blotches appear on shaded faces, in skies, in car paintwork, etc.  The smearing is bad too.  Noise is more even, like film grain.

I learnt a lot when I had the Oly E-410 where I could turn off the NR.  The noise could be taken out cleanly by Noiseware, or ignored when it didn't matter.  I enjoyed having the choice.

So the FZ settings we have discussed are helpful, in the absence of NR with the option of switching it off.

Mike