Noise at iso 200? (another one, i know, canon 200d)

BalanisUK wrote:

benjilafouine wrote:

It is a bit hard to evaluate from a website but these look perfectly fine to me, even at ISO 800. I have a 7D and I am having more noise than that!

But if you are a freak of pitch sharp and perfect photos, maybe you should look at Topaz DeNoise AI and Sharpen AI. I am shooting at ISO 6400 and removing most of the noise with my 7D. In my mind, my 7D was scrap until I discovered these two applications (Windows only).

from a ben to another ben

so i may just be over ocd'ing it by super zooming into the image? hmmm ill have a look at topaz, i did do a trial run for a single image... qq, do you edit then denoise, or denoise then edit?

First, I convert the RAW file to JPEG using Lightroom with no post-processing (just the in-camera processing).

Second, I run the file through DeNoise AI making sure the sharpening slider is at 0. Depending on the level of noise, you have so select how much noise you are going to remove (too much is like not enough).

Third, I run the DeNoised file through Sharpen AI. Depending on the picture, you have three options there: sharpen, stabilise and clear. Most of the time I will use the stabilize option, especially with birds. The sharpen option is my second choice. Again you have to select an appropriate level of sharpening and since noise was already removed in step 2, I move the noise slider to 0. Both with DeNoise and Sharpen, make sure the quality level when saving is at 10 (highest quality).

Fourth, from then on, it is either Pixelmator and/or Pixelmator Photo Pro and/or Adobe Photoshop. This is where I make the final colour adjustments and editing.

Hope this helps.