I need some help to better understand an issue I am not able to solve on my own. I recently added to my 60D a Canon S-100, a camera with decent low light performances for the sensor size, so I now have to manage low light pictures at say 2000-3200 ISO , Raw, from a small sensor.

I was not particularly impressed by the changes I can make with Aperture ( it seems to me both Noise reduction and Raw fine introduce little changes to the visible noise ( maybe I don't use them properly) , so I tried DPP and the feeling is that the changes are dramatically more effective in reducing NR, at the price of details, of course.

So my question is, am I using Aperture in the wrong way, or is Aperture "weak" in managing NR , or is Canon software more effective because they know better the way the Raw is taken with their sensor ??

Would you suggest I keep using Aperture to manage my Library and use other tools to create better photos ?

Thanks!!
giovanni