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Here are five E-410 images taken at 800 ISO, JPEGs. Using the various levels of in-camera filtering and Neat Image. Big difference, IMO. Image has far more detail preserved and colour and contrast integrity is better. It almost looks like (in the case of the standard and high filtering) that the Olympus implementation makes the noise more course and it definitely wipes out detail.

Images are crops, about a meg each.

http://www.pbase.com/andersonrm/olympus_e-410_noise_filtering
 
As to whether the link works, or not, you are correct.

Many of the third party solutions are more flexible than the OEM or in camera solutions.
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Probably one of the biggest reasons I started shooting RAW.

Compared to a camera there's much more processing power available from a personal computer. That and noise reduction operation in a camera is also time restricted to achieve reasonably fast image processing time. So probably not the best way to achieve the optimal results.

So for something that can benefit from more computationally expensive algorithms, noise reduction software like neat image can and should do a better job than in-camera processing.
 
Your computer can bring a lot more horsepower to bear than the camera, and it's not time critical, whereas JPG processing is.

I've been using NeatImage since version 3, and bought the "pro" version. It works well enough for me that I haven't bothered much checking out the newer competition. If only NI's algorithms could be plugged into Lightroom --- night and day noise processing.
Jonathan Demarais said:
Here are five E-410 images taken at 800 ISO, JPEGs. Using the
various levels of in-camera filtering and Neat Image. Big
difference, IMO. Image has far more detail preserved and colour and
contrast integrity is better. It almost looks like (in the case of
the standard and high filtering) that the Olympus implementation
makes the noise more course and it definitely wipes out detail.

Images are crops, about a meg each.

http://www.pbase.com/andersonrm/olympus_e-410_noise_filtering
Click to expand...
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Neat image does a great job with Sky Noise, especially in those pics where you've under exposed and corrected during PP (i.e. effectively greater than ISO1600). This is at the cost of a little detail though.

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