Q2 low light with Adobe's AI Denoise

[SrMi]

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Here is an image from my recent trip to Disneyland. ISO 8000 lifted 4.1 stops in LrC. One image has AI Denoise applied.

 

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[frame-it]

3 hours ago, SrMi said:

Here is an image from my recent trip to Disneyland. ISO 8000 lifted 4.1 stops in LrC. One image has AI Denoise applied.

 

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looks like its all made of cheap plastic

[M11 for me]

You might want to reduce the denoise effect a little bit and it would be fine.I believe that there is no need for Topaz Software anymore. Lightroom does the job very effectively. Its a pity for the small software developers.

[LocalHero1953]

I have stopped using Topaz except where I want better sharpening than Lightroom can give. I'm sure Topaz made plenty of money while they had a lead, but it's inevitable that users would rather stay in one software environment.

[newtoleica]

A tad aggressive in the example maybe? I don’t mind a bit of noise, however point well made and that is the reason I saved money and got a mint unused Q2 rather than a Q3 last year. 

[LocalHero1953]

I find the Q2 noise pattern a bit ugly, so I'd rather hide it, at the expense of a bit of plastic texture. I'm told the Q3 noise is more agreeable.

[SrMi]

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I have tried reducing the NR but was always left with ugly looking white dots. We know that Q2 has some issues with heavy lifting of deep shadows (4 stops in my case). ISO 8000 lifted 4 stops corresponds to ISO128000. I was happy to get anything as usable as you see. It does not work that well on humans, but it kind of works on puppets and decor 😁.

[Herr Barnack]

On 9/20/2024 at 5:02 AM, frame-it said:

looks like its all made of cheap plastic

It is all made of cheap plastic.

The Adobe AI Denoised version is a vast improvement over the original, though. 

Edited September 22, 2024 by Herr Barnack

[hdmesa]

Meanwhile: me still wishing I could buy a Q with the SL2-S sensor 🫠

[Fred Miranda]

I find that DXO Pure RAW does better with more natural results with extreme examples like this.

[sometimesmaybe]

4 hours ago, Fred Miranda said:

I find that DXO Pure RAW does better with more natural results with extreme examples like this.

DxO is superb

 

[SrMi]

8 hours ago, Fred Miranda said:

I find that DXO Pure RAW does better with more natural results with extreme examples like this.

I find that DxO has some issues with lots of noise. Here is one from AI Denoise at 83 and DxO PureRaw 4 (default). Same input (saved metadata on DNG before invoking DxO).

 

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Edited September 23, 2024 by SrMi