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p.1 #1 · Lightroom rendering of high ISO D700 files - high chroma noise?

I'm wondering if this is normal, but I'm finding that lot of files at high ISOs viewed in Lightroom 2.0 show a lot more color noise than say Capture NX? I'm quite puzzled by this.... Is this normal? It's really a night and day difference... the noise in Capture NX has a much more pleasant appearance.

Here, someone else has brought this up

https://forum.adobe.com/webx?14@@.59b625fc/17

Has anyone else here experienced this?

Nov 24, 2008 at 02:18 AM

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p.1 #2 · Lightroom rendering of high ISO D700 files - high chroma noise?

my experience is that ACR does a great job with my high ISO stuff even better than my preferred editor for everything else : NX2

Nov 24, 2008 at 02:36 AM

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p.1 #3 · Lightroom rendering of high ISO D700 files - high chroma noise?

Well, LR 2 makes my high ISO files look really bad, so I don't know if I'll be using it anymore... I am not sure what the reason is.

Nov 24, 2008 at 03:31 AM

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p.1 #4 · Lightroom rendering of high ISO D700 files - high chroma noise?

By default Lightroom adds a lot of brightness to your images. Have you turned that down?

It's the "Brightness" slider, turn that down to zero. I'm happy with how it handles noise for me, does a very nice job.

Nov 24, 2008 at 03:52 AM

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p.1 #5 · Lightroom rendering of high ISO D700 files - high chroma noise?

OK, never mind. The problem is obviously me and not Lightroom. :o I just realized that I was looking at NEF files without noise reduction and and the JPEGs which obviously must have noise reduction. Hell, of course they are going to look less noisy. :o I am feeling very silly about starting this thread now

EDIT : opening NEF files in Irfanview still doesn't display the noise in NEF that is present in those files in Lightroom... what gives? I'm sure it's me being an idiot again.

Nov 24, 2008 at 05:05 AM


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