Still loving the M6II, even more with new DXO

KevinRA wrote:

Great post, thanks! I'm liking DXO PL6 too - but not so much for the deep prime XD but for some of the other enhancments and somehow the colours look nicer from camera too.

Deep Prime XD - yes it is great but some times I do find it give an unnatural look. In your shots the Deep Prime ones still have some noise - but being softer kind of works too. The XD ones have to me some over sharpened looking "detail" next to smoothed out areas - example your son's beard and one area of blue fabric in your wife's photo - these shots somehow dont look natural.

I know what you mean. I'm never quite sure whether what I'm seeing with lower NR is actually more detail, or just noise that's tricking the eye into thinking it's seeing detail.

Also the difference in noise level in your shots is the most I have seen - I must try my M6II with it.

Yes, I think you'll see the most difference at really high ISO levels, like 20,000 or 25,600

Taste I know and I am nitpicking - somehow often I prefer Deep Prime to Deep Prime XD. I think it depends on the image - and if one is that bother can export both and then stack and choose best part of image in photoshop for those "problem" areas in XD.

That would certainly do it. I'm also still playing around with the different settings with Deep Prime XD. I think you can probably get the best of both worlds (Deep Prime, and Deep Prime XD) with the right slider values. Also, adjusting the contrast differently in the shadows, midtones, and highlights can have good effects (this is something you can only do, if you also have Film Pack installed).