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No self-cleaning sensor on the 5D Mark 1. That is a deal killer every time.  Unless you want to spend your like tediously removing dust spots, get something newer. 5D II or 6D.

Sorry, that is nonsense. Blind Freddy can tell that Topaz grossly over-sharpens and badly overdoes the noise reduction on many, possibly most images. It is beyond credible belief that any imaging ...

No, they obviously regard it as a feature. This isn't new. Topaz has always been way too aggressive. They presumably think that their target market is beginners and don't realise that a lot of ...

No pre-sharpening. Quite often, no raw converter - many (maybe 30-40%) of the pictures I use Topaz for are very old and shot in JPG.  Sometimes I run them through a raw converter anyway to adjust ...

Good posting, Night Pixel. :) I've been aware of that (adding a control line to an existing control point, for example) for  a little while but I don't know that I've taken advantage of it yet. ...

No! It is a PITA. I have to fire up Affinity just for this task (because my raw converter  doesn't do layers), open both the before and after files, and copy-paste, then reduce the opacity on the ...

Absolutely. It is a wonderful lens with outstanding optics still superior to anything else made (bar the new Mark II and one or two others of similar ilk - and even there the difference is very ...

I used Photoshop for many years (not sure how many, but I started with CS2, which was quite a while back), never really mastered it (not many people do!), always respected it for its power but ...

A really interesting setup. I like it! I go a different way. I cut my teeth in the dry, dusty outback with non-self-cleaning cameras and learned to avoid changing lenses in the field wherever ...

Yes, the upgrade process is mega-confusing. I paid a quite reasonable amount ($80  USD maybe?) to, as I thought, upgrade two old, disused Topaz applications ... er ... noise reduction and ...

Ah! Thankyou! There is another technique to add to my skills set. That will come in handy for sure.

Seeing as we are discussing 85s, with some thought given to the 85/1.8 as well as the 85/1.4, allow me to slip in my usual plug for the excellent Tamron 85/1.8. Significantly sharper than the ...

Oh, a handy tip for the DXO products generally (PhotoLab and many of the Nik Collection products too). Use the presets as learning tools. Click on a preset that is doing something you like (even if ...

The good news is that it is vastly easier and more intuitive than Photoshop. But then most software is. Photoshop is a prisoner of its own long and successful history. Most functions in PhotoLab ...

It does? Where does it hide them?

* Analog Efex: control point on basic adjustments only, not really relevant to most of the others. * Color Efex 2 - +ive and -ive control points on pretty much everything relevant * Dfine 2 - no ...

Calling a straight safe of a TIF input file to a TIF output file is not by any stretch of the imagination "exporting". It is a save. That keystroke sequence is indeed the standard. The system is ...

Good questions. I have to go out, Digital Nigel, but I'll fire them up and check exactly (rather than trust to memory) later on today, then get back to you.

Good luck to upgraders. I downloaded an Affinity V2 and it didn't improve on V1 in any way for the uses I make of it . I only use Affinity for the things I can't do, can't do easily, or can't do as ...

Yes, DXO have been working on the Nik Control Point technology consistently ever since they bought it some years ago. Control Points work the same way and not the same way across their suite of ...