Post processing of shots taken with EOS R6 M2

bmninada wrote:

I took a whirl. LR -> trial. Capture One -> trial.

My monitor's pretty good calibrated using Spyder, etc. BENQ professional with 100% Adobe RGB, etc.

Anyways what I found is DPP JPEGs are seriously good comparing to LR and Capture One. I did what I thought is best in DPP. Then did that using LR and finally with Capture One.

As 1 post suggested - next I tried the RAW in DPP and using which applied the lens corrections, exported as TIFF and then tried using LR and Capture One. Final images again as JPEGs. Its here I found JPEGs generated by Capture One to be slightly better but its nothing to write home about.

The thing that concerns me in de-noise and sharpening since I have a bunch of stuff in low light. No matter what I did LR - did best, then DPP and finally Capture One. Surprisingly, Capture One was worst when it came to de-noise and sharpening.

1 big surprise though: "Astro denoise" in darktable was excellent. Better than LR and denoise (profiled) in darktable was really good. So, this time around I did everything in DPP -> stored as TIFF and then applied denoise + sharpening using darktable. Boom: perfect!

Finally I had some photos shot using RAW Dual Pixel and some using HDR PQ. Those photos DPP came out miles ahead than Capture One or LR. I don't remember which one but one of them failed to load too!

The only reason I feel DPP is bad is because its sloooowwwwww. LOL.

My experience is the opposite about astro denoise and denoise (profiled). Would you like to upload a raw sample + xmp with your astro denoise settings?