Following on from comments about the pros and cons of Canon's DPP regarding noise reduction on some high ISO images I captured and posted in another thread, I thought I'd do a quick comparison between canon Digital Photo Professional (DPP), Adobe Lightroom 4, and Nik Software DFine 2.0.
Here's a screen grab showing the raw image without any noise reduction, DFine auto, and my typical noise reduction settings in LR and DPP (10 seconds worth of adjustments).
What was interesting was that the unprocessed LR file (I turn the default LR NR off for my imports) was noisy, whilst the unprocessed DPP file had what looked like artefacts as well as noise.
In terms of the quality of the processing, both the LR & DPP images look less noisy, but are slightly smeared, but I think the quality of the images is very similar between the two packages and I wouldn't lean towards one over the other. DFine in auto retains more detail but also more noise, so I wouldn't favour it.
Processing parameters were: In DFine automatic, in LR 65 luminance at 50 detail and 25 colour at 50 detail, in DPP 14 luminance and 14 chrominance.
Aaargh! 503 error, so I've uploaded the file to the forum. Flickr link is here: Aaargh, it won't even let me post a Flickr link! Here's the link without http:// at the front www.flickr.com/photos/s_j_p/10908419683/ Aha! That seems to have resolved the 503 error, removing the http:// allowed me to post the link
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Here's a screen grab showing the raw image without any noise reduction, DFine auto, and my typical noise reduction settings in LR and DPP (10 seconds worth of adjustments).
What was interesting was that the unprocessed LR file (I turn the default LR NR off for my imports) was noisy, whilst the unprocessed DPP file had what looked like artefacts as well as noise.
In terms of the quality of the processing, both the LR & DPP images look less noisy, but are slightly smeared, but I think the quality of the images is very similar between the two packages and I wouldn't lean towards one over the other. DFine in auto retains more detail but also more noise, so I wouldn't favour it.
Processing parameters were: In DFine automatic, in LR 65 luminance at 50 detail and 25 colour at 50 detail, in DPP 14 luminance and 14 chrominance.
Aaargh! 503 error, so I've uploaded the file to the forum. Flickr link is here: Aaargh, it won't even let me post a Flickr link! Here's the link without http:// at the front www.flickr.com/photos/s_j_p/10908419683/ Aha! That seems to have resolved the 503 error, removing the http:// allowed me to post the link
Screen Shot 2013-11-17 at 17.18.29.jpg
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