Here's a before and after dxo pic of a woodpecker, it wasn't something I'd considered sharing despite me trying to enhance the original in dpp and luminar 4.
This is my 1st pic using a trial of dxo.
To say i'm reasonably impressed is an understatement
I had to crop to just the head due to 4m limit on drpevived
Was that in PureRaw or Photolab. My understanding is that in PureRaw you get what you get without the ability to adjust parameters, whereas in Photolab you can do some tweeking.
I agree, the result is very good. The image does not look over-sharpened and the increase in detail is impressive.
Yes, that worked rather well, nice details.
Danny.
It was the standalone pureraw, the noise reduction it sorts out itself, but you an choose 4 sharpening levels (I let it choose = standard) and optionally some lens settings eg distortion and CA. I just left it to as it knows better than me how to edit raws
I was doing some testing earlier today. on the m6ii noise was gone even from 12800 iso shots, but sharpness suffered above 6400. Given I hate noise and was reluctant to use more than iso 320 (not 3200) thats a BIG jump
OK, cool. I did not know you could control sharpening levels. I'm debating PureRaw vs Photolab. I'm using DarkTable right now, but I still find the UI quite unintuitive and the R7 CR3 format appears not to be supported.
Its just a trial copy, 30 days to convince me its wonderful, its results are but it takes ages to batch process a bunch or raws (and I thought my PC was speedy), I obviously need to be more selective
Now I know NR & sharpening software does actually work, i'll have to check out which one to actually buy. I also need something more modern that edits raws better that what i have (luminar 4)
How many cores does your CPU have? Looking at the specs dxo recommends a minimum of 6, but the way it is worded, they will use as many as you throw at the app. I suspect batch processing will take advantage of all those cores.
I just picked up a new laptop with a 12 core i5 to replace my ancient 2 core i5. It was not particularly expensive. I remember not that long ago anything Intel more than 2 cores was expensive.
Hmm, I’m not on the pc just now, but I seem to remember it was using the graphics card, which was a cheepo thing, it’s taking 7-9 mins per image, good job it’s in the background while I do other things. I’ll have a look tomorrow and see if it can use the processor instead
Just had a look on the pc, under pureraw preferences it can use the GPU or CPU, I switched to the cpu (ryzen 5 - 6 core) and the time came down to 2 mins (ish), but that slowed down as i did things in the background, i guess the best option would be to factor in a better GPU
Very nice result. BTW if you don't want to crop your full-resolution images, just save the JPG at a slightly lower quality.
I've been particularly impressed by exporting a TIF from DXO and doing a bit more sharpening (including corrections for out-of-focus and movement blur) in Topaz Sharpen.
the use of multiple s/w is growing... I must admit the image i see in the dxo viewer is better than my raw (dng) editing skills. I've been a jpg only convert for years and i'm not convinced luminar 4 is giving me what i want
James I have just built a new desktop machine 13th gen i5, 32Gb Ram, 3060 GPU. Pure Raw2 now takes approx 17s per image from a Sony A7R4 61Mp Raw. It is actually slightly faster setting it to use the inbuilt GPU (Intel UHD Graphics 770) so the 3060 isn't needed for this. I also have a 8core 8gpu 16Gb M1 Macbook Air and it takes 42s. Hope this helps. Ken
That’s no use at all, how are you going to get a break to get a cup of coffee while you wait on it processing?
It’s bad enough to have camera gas, now I have computer gas too..👍
I don't think you need the latest and greatest CPU/GPU computer. The laptop I just bought was ~ $750 USD, not that expensive. It has a gen 12 i5 and 3060 gpu. It will do me for quite a few years.
One of the software I had in mind to test...
About PC ... Hmmm... No more Intel for me. NEVER. too poor performances/$
My 2-year-old PC is a 5600x + 2070S ...
So far, with what I have, a stack of 150 takes less them 12 seconds on Helicon.
I built a PC for my son's girl in December for less than 700€ (5600+2060) but have no idea about its performance on Photo Softwares
Before buying back a Camera and spending a nice lump of money, I was thinking to update mine to all AMD on 7800x + 6800x for around 1k$.
Supposedly that will happen later maybe next year.
Not complaining about what I have... I just love PC a little more than Photography, but not so much!
DXO was one of the software to try, ....
I'll report back, after testing
