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Kirantexas wrote:
While shooting in most conditions my ISO levels going anywhere between 1000-8000 to achieve faster shutter. When check my results on DPP it looks absolutely fine in these noise ranges. However when I tried to open the CR3 directly in LR or PS, the noise-levels are extremely high (with noise reduction kept at 0).
This matches my experience with the Canon 90D. For my past Canon cameras with the 24 mp sensor, the noise was pretty high at or beyond ISO 1600. I did not see much improvement in noise at high ISO with my 90D using Adobe ACR to open the raw files. Results were outstanding when I used Canon DPP4 software to open raw files. The default noise reduction works very well giving me great results up to ISO 6400. At ISO 12800 or beyond I often get quite useable results but sometimes I see color shifts that are not easily corrected and some minor loss of details can occur. Adobe ACR just does not work well for noise reduction!
I took a hard look at some of the other properties of Adobe ACR and found other major deficiencies. For example, the colors tend to look better when opening with DPP4 and of course, DPP4 also permits use of a wide variety of "picture styles" which can easily change the look. I found color and light adjustments work better with DPP4. DPP4 also permits use of a diffraction correction algorithm that works wonders. This may not be much use for bird photography but it is very powerful for my macro photography where I often shoot at f/20 or higher to extend depth of field. The Canon DC algorithm works like magic to retrieve details that would have otherwise been lost. Like "magic" is the best description I can offer because it does not seem possible that software could recover details lost to diffraction.
My solution to this has been to use DPP4 to open raw files! One downside is that DPP4 is quite slow compared with ACR. I typically do not process large numbers of files and have found the speed acceptable (especially since I am now using a newer computer with an SSD drive. I make adjustments to a raw file and then process in the background with DPP4 while I make adjustments on the next file.
I have never tried to us Adobe software for file management so that has made it easy to avoid the use of Lightroom and stick entirely with DPP4. I convert and then save as tiffs. I have also given up with using the full subscription version of PS. I find that PS Elements does everything I want at a very low, non subscription cost. If I were not so use to Elements, I would probably just switch to Affinity Photo and be entirely done with Abode and their predatory prices and policies.
One final comment to a long post, but you might also want to give a try to Topaz Sharpen AI. It definitely goes beyond what DPP4 can achieve for both noise reduction and sharpening. Unfortunately it is slooooooooooow.
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