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Denoise challenge - raw, jpeg, tiff provided

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Rightsaidfred
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Re: Denoise challenge - raw, jpeg, tiff provided

Samuraidog wrote:

I understand and appreciate the exercise of this thread, but I can't get past myself looking at sharpness for comparison. I don't mind noise so much, so I always feel that denoising itself seems to soften an image.

Am I alone in this?

I think it depends.

Sometimes noise can look good. Like with my recent Shooting a gig (80s rock band - X-T4, X-T20, Viltrox 85 Mk II). It looks authentic and wild with all the noise.

My last subject that I cannot share was portraits under low light at ISO 6400. The noise was clearly disturbing. I am very happy with what I achieved with Neat Image. Sharpness did not suffer.

Not every image is as demanding as the one in the current challenge with the fine hair in focus.

Regards,

Martin

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