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Disabling Wavelet NR (Bacon Camera) Experience?

Started Nov 17, 2017 | Questions thread
I2K4
OP I2K4 Senior Member • Posts: 1,441
Re: Disabling Wavelet NR (Bacon Camera) Experience?

Absent further interest, but in case some downmarket and lazy SOOC shooters might care, I'll just report that after experimental series on my ZTE phone with Open Camera (former default), Camera FV-5, Bacon Camera and Snap Camera HDR, I ...

. dropped Open Camera for lack of either denoise toggle or sharpness adjustment resulting in the low ISO denoise smearing that bothers me;

. keep Bacon Camera for working denoise-off and sharpness adjustment that result in the best SOOC results for tripod low ISO, but GUI is too twiddly for handheld / outdoors;

. keep Camera FV-5 (no denoise toggle, with sharpness controls) with good GUI but still unwanted "smoothing" at low ISO;

. keep Snap as possible new default: good is output equivalent to Camera FV-5 (but not Bacon) and three separate "P" configurations ready to hand, but bad denoise-off toggle doesn't seem to work on this hardware as Bacon does, and it had trouble accessing microSD card, though seems okay now. Lacks polish and some features of FV-5, but on balance could be a go to app.

It's worth saying that for a stable shot at ISO 100 - when there's no noise worth the name - the difference in detail between intrusive automatic JPEG noise reduction and none is noticeable, and sharpening goes only part way to restoriing lost detail.

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