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ACR 6.1 on high-iso M8 files... wow :)


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I've always shot a lot of high-iso on my M8, regularly using 2500iso in low light.

 

Having installed CS5 a couple of weeks ago, primarily because of the comments on the new raw converter, I'm very impressed with the improvement.

 

The treatment of noise is hugely improved, makes 2500 look like unprocessed 640 to me.

 

Well worth the upgrade cost if you were wondering, or hadn't noticed the comments which seemed to be mostly in the M9 forum and focused on Lightroom.

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Really? Do you have some examples. I now set my M8 with the auto ISO to a maximum of 640, but if I cn go higher it would be nice.

 

I do like the Auto diafragm and Auto ISO. My M6 has not and it doesn't works that fast. Going inside and outside all the time without adustments. Really great having a beer and still be able to take pictures :D

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Really? Do you have some examples. I now set my M8 with the auto ISO to a maximum of 640, but if I cn go higher it would be nice.

 

I do like the Auto diafragm and Auto ISO. My M6 has not and it doesn't works that fast. Going inside and outside all the time without adustments. Really great having a beer and still be able to take pictures :D

 

Here's a link to a large one on flickr, Sam shot at 1250iso.

 

I used to see nasty parquet like patterns when using the previous version of ACR to reduce noise. Consequently I either used C1 or no noise reduction at all.

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Finally, with 3 different noise reductions:

 

ISO 2500, Nik Dfine 2.0 NR with maximum luminance noise setting

NR-3.jpg

 

ISO 2500, ACR 5 NR with maximum luminance noise setting

NR-5.jpg

 

ISO 2500, ACR 6 NR with maximum luminance noise setting

NR-6.jpg

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ISO 2500, ACR 6 NR with maximum luminance noise setting

NR-6.jpg

 

Yep, lovely retention of detail in the ACR 6 one, which was my main beef with all the other noise reduction tools I've used. I'd rather have noise than 'plastic' tones.

 

I generally haven't been going above 15-18 in luminance, and up to around 40 in colour... but then I like a bit of 'grain' in high iso shots.

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Before we get too excited we really need to see some real-world shots, especially low light, low light in tungsten etc. I think Adobe have made some big strides forwards with LR3 with regards NR so I guess we shouldn't be surprise to find them making improvements in ACR too, I can't believe the two engines are significantly different.

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