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On Mon, May 27, 2013 at 12:12 PM, johannes hanika <[email protected]> wrote:

> what are the white balance coefficients for that image?
>
>
> On Mon, May 27, 2013 at 11:57 AM, Baptiste Pierrat <
> [email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> I want to second this problem.
>>
>> I have a Sony Alpha 57 and have a lot of trouble with remaining bright
>> color dots after denoising. My usual denoising tools for iso>800 are :
>> 1. Chroma denoise: profiled denoising with wavelets, blend with color,
>> then
>> 2. Luma denoise: profiled denoising with non-local means, blend with
>> lightness
>>
>> Here is an example with an iso 3200 sample:
>> original: http://minus.com/lU783RXDLcLH7
>>  chroma denoised: http://minus.com/lBe1kgj6o5aoP
>> chroma and luma denoised: http://minus.com/lbqRsDO5q4E617
>> detail after export: http://minus.com/lCLmKR1s2vh5a
>>
>> Green, red and blue larger dots remain. Also notice as chroma denoising
>> does not work well for green color. As suni, this problem is partially
>> solved by using the color smoothing option in demosaic but the image is
>> slightly blurred.
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
>>
>> On Mon, May 27, 2013 at 11:25 AM, johannes hanika <[email protected]>wrote:
>>
>>> you left in all the luma noise in your lightroom comparison image. to do
>>> that in darktable, use `color' blend mode in the profiled denoising module.
>>> you may want to use the wavelet method, it is usually a little more
>>> effective against color noise.
>>>
>>> j.
>>>
>>>
>>> On Mon, May 27, 2013 at 11:21 AM, suni <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi all,
>>>>
>>>> I'm fighting the high ISO noise of my A550 camera, but I still cannot
>>>> achieve the reasonable output. Even the new profiled denoise filter doesn't
>>>> help much.
>>>>
>>>> Below is the example of the ISO12800 image. I do not take images on
>>>> such high ISO but it makes this problem more visible for this purpose. This
>>>> behaviour may be observed even at ISO1600 and higher. The RAW image below
>>>> is totally unaltered RAW for comparison opened side by side in dt and in
>>>> Lt. Only the base curve is applied at dt side because otherwise the image
>>>> looks very ugly and not comparable to the Lt from the visual point of view.
>>>>
>>>> Link to unaltered RAW image:
>>>> https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/9454436/sony_noise/raw_not_altered.jpg
>>>>
>>>> As you can see the image looks almost the same in both tools. Just note
>>>> the bright red dots. The Lt shows less of them especially on the right side
>>>> of the paper Christmas tree. These red dots cannot be removed by any of the
>>>> dt denoising filters unless the image becomes almost blurred.
>>>>
>>>> Now see the next image below. This shows what can be achieved in dt and
>>>> in Lt. While only activating the luma and chroma denoise sliders in Lt
>>>> produces the acceptable and (to me) pretty usable output where only some
>>>> luma noise remains, with dt I cannot achieve similar output by no means.
>>>> The most strange finding is that no one from all the denoising filters
>>>> available in dt can remove these bright red dots unless it is pushed to not
>>>> acceptable high strength producing the blurred image. The only strategy I
>>>> found to be somehow working here is as follows:
>>>> 1) turn off the sharpen filter
>>>> 2) apply the hot pixel filter at its maximum strength
>>>> 3) set the color smoothing of the demosaic filter to maximum
>>>>
>>>> These three steps do remove the bright red dots. But the image still
>>>> suffers of the high chroma noise. The only possible way to get rid of it
>>>> while maintaining the image sharpness at the level comparable to the Lt I
>>>> found is the profiled denoise set to less than default strength. But as you
>>>> can see there still remain far more chroma noise than in the Lt case.
>>>>
>>>> Link to altered RAW image:
>>>> https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/9454436/sony_noise/raw_altered.jpg
>>>>
>>>> Because I've got to that point I didn't know what to do more,
>>>> I profiled my camera. But even though my profile seems to me to be a bit
>>>> better than the one packed with dt, it produces no visible difference here.
>>>>
>>>> I would like to ask all of you experienced in fighting the high ISO
>>>> noise for your experiences and recommendations. It would be great to get to
>>>> know that the problem is in between the chair and the keyboard, not in the
>>>> excellent dt tool!:-)
>>>>
>>>> If someone is interested, the original RAW image can be found here:
>>>> https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/9454436/sony_noise/DSC09533.ARW
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Thank you in advance for any reply!
>>>>
>>>> Suni
>>>>
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