Mika Y.
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Re: Canon EOS R3 Baked in Raw Noise Reduction Revisited
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Lost99999 wrote:
Mika Y. wrote:
Lost99999 wrote:
Hi Claff,
between the lines you seem to imply this ‘baking’ is not a good thing. But could it not be that Canon understand the sensor and processing and desired end result to such perfection that this so called ‘baking’ leads to a better rather than worse result ?
While I'm not him, from my point of view, the problem with baking processing in is that it's optimal if you assume the current processing is the best there can ever be. But in real world, both the available algorithms and processing power tend to improve over the time. And unlike in-camera processing, doing conversion from raw does not have to be done almost instantly while processing files on a computer.
Sure, but for a given sensor and camera your hardware / processing power is fixed. Improved algorithms can be uploaded via firmware. Guess if you are taking pictures, you are always dependent on hardware and software provided by the camera producer .. and if you don’t trust them, you should not buy the camera.
This will apply if you're only using in-camera jpegs. But I can certainly get better noise reduction results processing my old files from, say, my 40D or 5D mk III raw files today with a desktop computer than the camera itself could do back in the day. Having baked-in noise reduction will compromise this.
(now, having a setting for enabling or disabling this in the camera settings would be fine for me and I would be fine with it defaulting to 'on')