High ISO NR

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Dave_W

The Dude
It's personal preference and based on the level of noise you're expecting from your low-light shots. I prefer normal to off, depending again on what I'm shooting.
 
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Mike D90

Senior Member
On my D90 the ISO noise reduction does very little at anything above ISO 800. I use LightRoom noise reduction to remove it.
 
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Mfrankfort

Senior Member
Lightroom is the best way for me. And if you can't get it in lightroom, a little gaussian blur in photoshop usually does the trick.
 
Marcel

Marcel

Happily retired
Staff member
Super Mod
I don't use in-camera noise reduction because first it only works when you're shooting jpeg and I almost never do. I find I get digital artifacts that are later harder to get rid of. When shooting raw, I get a kind of grain that is very regular and it actually looks like the old film grain. Then with Camera raw or LR, it's easier to deal with. I can tolerate a little bit of grain since some noise reduction to excess can also bring loss of sharpness. But that's my taste, to each his own.
 
BackdoorArts

BackdoorArts

Senior Member
I have it set to Normal, but as Marcel states since I shoot RAW it matters not. I use Nik Dfine 2.0 to reduce/remove noise. Phenomenal tool.
 
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PeteB

New member
I also have it set off. The D800 does so well that even at ISO 3200 one has to enlarge quite a bit to really see the 'grain.'
 
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gqtuazon

Gear Head
I cheat and use it on high so that I can use that jpg image as a reference before PP and in situation that I need to upload the images right away. Not the preferred method but it is there if you need it especially if you need to pp hundreds of raw files.


Sent from my iPhone.
 
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