Still loving the M6II, even more with new DXO

TiltShiftR wrote:

I must be so far gone from the game. What is Deep Prime and Deep Prime XD?

I was equally far gone a bit over a year ago. DXO Optics has a RAW processor called Photolab, with lots of neat features, including several different noise reduction and lens correction settings. They release dedicated modules for numerous combinations of camera and lens, including all the ones I use, or have ever used. A couple of years ago, they released a version of their noise reduction software called "Deep Prime", which was truly revolutionary, in that it not only reduced noise amazingly well, but it actually preserved detail better than pretty much any other RAW processor (that is largely down to the dedicated lens modules). I think that was released with version 4 of Photolab. I bought version 5 last year, which included Deep Prime, and have been using it ever since. Mostly, I only need to use Photolab, but sometimes I export a file from Photolab to Lightroom, when I want to use some Lightroom (or Photoshop) features that don't have a counterpart in Photolab. The latest version of Photolab, PL6, has a further enhanced version of Deep Prime, called Deep Prime XD (it still has the regular version too, so you can choose). In my experience, and that of numerous others who pushed me to try it last year (R2D2 especially), Deep Prime, and now Deep Prime XD, gives you at least a 2 stop high ISO advantage over what you can get with Lightroom alone, DPP, or just in-camera JPEGs. I am now comfortable shooting my M6II and R7 at ISO 25,600 and my R at ISO 51,200.