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Posted by Judith: Sun Mar 22nd, 2015 10:41 1st Post
Has anyone tried this? Or know anything about it?  If the example on their website is accurate, it looks impressive.

http://www.dxo.com/us/photography/photo-software/dxo-opticspro/features/prime




Posted by jk: Sun Mar 22nd, 2015 11:32 2nd Post
DxO is much hyped but some people swear by it.
I have always found it to be clunky and whilst better than NikonCapture (that doesnt say a lot).
I think it is a high priced set of Emperors new clothes. Just because they also do the DxO camera tests, whose results are also dubious ,they feel that they can charge premium rates for the software.

Adobe Lightroom and Photoshop are a much better solution for nearly the same price (depends how you do the calculations). DxO stated that tehy woudl not support the Fuji X-Trans sensor which definitely killed any chance of me making a purchase.

As an aside their customer support is very poor also.



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Posted by amazing50: Sun Mar 22nd, 2015 18:01 3rd Post
I installed the trial verson, 31 days no watermarks, and it seems to preform rather well.
Had to hunt for some high, 25,000 ISO Raw pix, as I usually do night shots at ISO800 with longer shutter speeds.
The Prime module is in Essential Tools>Detail>Noise Reduction>PRIME
It did a good job of cleaning up the D610 shots, should print well to 13x19 or larger, depending on the shot.



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Posted by Judith: Sun Mar 22nd, 2015 19:43 4th Post
I got the full basics version on a freebie CD in this month's Digital Camera magazine but haven't tried it yet.



Posted by amazing50: Sun Mar 22nd, 2015 23:15 5th Post
Going to do a series of test shots on a tripod ISO 800 to 25,600 of the same scene with the D610 in RAW.
This should give me an idea or the usefulness of the Prime Denoising.



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Posted by richw: Mon Mar 23rd, 2015 01:05 6th Post
I had a copy I used back in 2005. Back then it did make a noticeable difference, however it crashed a lot also. I didn't update and as Adobe has got better I wonder if the difference is as great now.



Posted by Judith: Mon Mar 23rd, 2015 05:28 7th Post
I'd be interested to see your test results.

Rich, it might have improved since 2005! ;-)



Posted by jk: Mon Mar 23rd, 2015 10:54 8th Post
The customer support is dire.
They are French and not customer centric!!



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Posted by jk: Mon Mar 23rd, 2015 13:51 9th Post
I guess my question is why would you use DxO instead of Adobe Photoshop which you are so familiar with.



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Posted by Judith: Mon Mar 23rd, 2015 15:18 10th Post
I just saw it and thought it looked good, hence the question... o.O

Haven't really used any denoising software. Never really needed it but I'm doing more night time shots now.



Posted by jk: Mon Mar 23rd, 2015 15:31 11th Post
NoiseNinja used to be the best software for noise reduction but it has been replace by PictureCode with the product PhotoNinja which is a very good RAW processing software.

There are now other software from other software houses. DeNoise, etc....



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Posted by jk: Thu Mar 26th, 2015 13:25 12th Post
Forgot to say.
If you want to get new software then have a look at PhaseOne Capture One Pro. This is excellent and it has layers which lessens the need for Photoshop except for complex stuff.



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Posted by Eric: Fri Mar 27th, 2015 05:31 13th Post
Do many of you lovely people still actually use a denoising programme?

I thought all these modern bodies had got noise under control?

:diggingahole:



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Posted by Bob Bowen: Fri Mar 27th, 2015 09:14 14th Post
Never felt the need since D200/D3. But then I was bought up in the press world where 400asa film was the norm so perhaps had a greater tolerance



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Posted by amazing50: Fri Mar 27th, 2015 10:05 15th Post
Eric wrote: Do many of you lovely people still actually use a denoising programme?

I thought all these modern bodies had got noise under control?

:diggingahole:
Hardly ever use one but it's nice to know how well they work. Don't usually go above ISO 800.



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Posted by jk: Fri Mar 27th, 2015 14:17 16th Post
I was regularly pushing my D3 and D3S to 6400ISO and only occasionally need NoiseNinja.
Most softwares have noise reduction built in.



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