Has anyone used noise ninja? A lot of the newpaper orgs use it.


Fast glass what are the noise reduction settings in DPP that you are using? I find that if you tweak the the 2 noise setting in DPP plus play with the sharpness you can improve on the image that I took and make it look much closer to CS5 and Dxo image.


Using CS5 I can go in and do way more to control noise with different selections and tricks so for me that is where I do all my tweaking. For the person who does not know or want to hassle with the extra steps then the DXO one step noise reduction is probably the better solution.


I think it would make for a good demo/assignment for someone to come up with an image that needs help with noise and they submit it here so that people can download it and do their best with what ever tools they use and see which one is the best. The top picks tell what they did in detail to achieve their high marks. I think we all might, could or will learn something.


My question to myself is DXO worth spending the extra 170 dollars? Can I achieve similar results with what I have on hand already. Sure if I had money falling out of my pockets I