DxO PhotoLab's Deep Prime Noise Reduction at 12,800 ISO

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 DxO PhotoLab is available at www.dxo.com

Wow. Look at the digital noise in this image. Both the luminance and colour noise are so pronounced you could probably feel it if you ran your hand across this print. This image was taken back 2013 in the evening on a poorly lit football field at ISO 12,800.

The noise reduction software we had at the time was relatively good back in those days but once I enlarged it .... well you know where I am going with this. This image is cropped quite a bit and ended up about 5.3 inches square. Good enough for social media but not so good for enlargements so I decided to disguise the flaws in the image by adding a painterly filter effect to it. That actually looked quite good as a 16 inch square print. Quite the conversation piece.

The technical specs are: Nikon D3 (12 MegaPixel sensor), Nikkor 70-200mm f2.8 VRII lens shot at 1/500th second at f2.8 using ISO of 12,800.

I am sure that the newer cameras on the market today would produce better quality images than something from well over a decade ago but none-the-less here I am attempting to revive some older image files.


Check this out. Using DxO PhotoLab's Deep Prime noise reduction option really cleans this image up. And I am just using the default settings. Who knows what would happen if I played around some with the various sliders ...
Here is a zoomed in view of that same image without any noise reduction


Here is a zoomed in view of that same image with DxO PhotoLab's Deep Prime Noise Reduction


In conclusion, I must admit that these results are truly amazing. Like I mentioned in my previous article on DxO PhotoLabs noise reduction tools, you can get the same results using their stand-alone software PureRAW which is available at https://www.dxo.com/dxo-pureraw/

I can only imagine what this would look like if I actually did some sharpening to it. Oh well, that'll be for another article. Until then ...



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