I used to use Noiseware back when I had the first DRebel. I agree that now the prints look great without it. Back inthe film days it was called grain and no one minded.
Every time I read some post about the horrors of noise when viewed at 1600%, I look at the 8x10 ISO 1000 D70 PRINT that I have tacked above my desk. Given a correctly exposed image, noise is mostly meaningless in PRINTS.
Same here. I don't use anything.. I've printed 6400 iso images at 8x10, and don't see anything wrong with them, and my clients are more than happy as well. From my experience, you loose sharpness with all these noise removal tools. I've toyed with DPP, ACR, noise ninja, and neat image, and with all of them found a lack of sharpness afterwards. That to me is worse than a bit of noise. Besides, I really don't need another step in my processing. I've finally got it down to under 2 hours for 500ish images!
As others have said, a properly exposed image really doesn't need noise removal in my book. And if it wasn't properly exposed: over-exposed is easy.. drop it down.. under-exposed, it either gets turned BW or deleted.
I'm ok with ACR's color noise adj.. and if I remember, sometimes I'll use a dab of that on the 6400 iso images.. but that's about the extent..
Its less than ideal, especially if you are used to LR. I have a good PS action that I use on DPP images to get me close to where I want to be, I started with DPP way before LR was around so Im kind of used to it.
As a RAW converter, DPP does its job better (IMO) than ACR/LR, however as a tool for finishing your images it is truly shit (IMO).
That being said, just use the RAW to generate big TIFFS and do the colour in ACR/LR?
Chris Beaumont wrote:
Morgan,
Isn't DPP a bit clunky to use for weddings ? I'd say at least 1/2-2/3 of my wedding photos are at ISO1600, if I had to put each one through DPP I'd lose what little marbles I have left.
morganb4 wrote:
A big old NAD amp a big new pair of Monitor Audio speakers and an Arcam CD player loaded with Led Zeppelin.
How 'bout Shure SE-110's and The Guns N' Roses leaked tracks?!?
