Given the level of interest and that I’m curious as well, I think it’s time for an On1 NoNoise Vs DxO DeepPRIME challenge. It’s extremely well respected and produces very good results. It creates new creative opportunities by helping expert photographers overcome digital noise or a lack of light. If you aren’t aware, DeepPRIME is the noise reduction technology used by DxO in their PureRAW and PhotoLab Elite products. Just look at the above examples…all the cardboard/paint texture has been washed out by using the HQ algorithm (please note: all images have been processed using all the same optical corrections provided by PL). Of DeepPRIME, Jérôme Ménière, DxOs CEO, says, There are a number of applications for DxO DeepPRIME. Of course to intercept noise it’s best to start by demosaicing the RAW (after all this is what all similar software tell you “You’ll get better results with the original RAW file”), but my point is that even with a good image, demosaicing it using anything less than DP/XD will result in data loss.

As DxO says in their documentation, their algorithm does demosaicing & denoising. The whole point is that most people think that DP/XD is there just to get rid of the noise, which IS NOT TRUE. What do you mean? I took the picture of an object I own which is on my desk.

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