alundeb wrote:
Keithreeder has tuned his workflow over a long time and, and found a noise reduction method that gives unusually pleasing results.
It\'s not that long a time actually, and it\'s by no means a complicated or time-consuming workflow - and the NR methodology is based on common, easily available commercial solutions (initial NR in Lightroom 3, finishing off with a light dusting of Topaz DeNoise in Photoshop as required - hardly rocket science).
But the point is that I\'ve sat down and figured out a process that works, rather than giving up at the first obstacle and wasting time complaining that could usefully be spent on finding a solution.
Clearly it\'s eminently possible to get excellent high ISO results, very easily, from the 7D, without any observable impact on detail or sharpness, despite what EverLearning asserts about the supposedly unavoidable necessity of heavy NR with its concomitant detail loss, in order to get half-useful high ISO results from the 7D.
But the solution won\'t find itself...
Oh, and although I don\'t usually print - as an enthusiast bird photographer it\'s not really something I do regularly - and although I rarely shoot anything in light that needs 6400 or 12800 ISO, I did print these two examples, and they look fantastic at A3 (about 17\" by 12\").
I can say much the same about the banding \"issue\" that I say about high ISO noise. As it happens I\'ve had observable banding in precisely one image at proper exposure in the 20+k images I\'ve taken with my 7D, but I can provoke banding by excessive dicking around with EC and fill sliders in conversion/PP.
By judicious use of the excellent line noise filter developed by Emil Martinec, as found in Raw Therapee 3, I can deal effectively with any banding, no matter how nasty, that I\'ve dragged out of my images.
