John, Have you tried opening the file in Adobe Camera Raw and using the built-in noise reduction. The noise reduction is the same as that in the LR develop module. It is a lot better than in the past, and it sounds like you already own it.
gs George Sinos -------------------- [email protected] www.georgesphotos.net plus.georgesinos.com On Tue, Feb 28, 2012 at 12:51 PM, John Sessoms <[email protected]> wrote: > From: Bruce Walker > >> I would offer that for most folks there is "good" and "bad" noise, or >> more aesthetically pleasing noise anyway. When I was shooting with the >> K100Ds I was almost obsessed with removing noise. But I really >> disliked that camera's noise as it consisted mainly of repeated >> coloured streaky stripe patterns. It's the clearly noticed pattern >> that makes it so objectionable. Even converting to B&W will not hide >> it. It's just fugly. >> >> The K20D (and newer models I believe) produce more film-like noise, ie >> quite pattern-free. If you process a noisy K20D image in Lightroom you >> can decide how much to trade-off that noise against relative >> sharpness. At high ISOs (3200) objectionable colour noise starts to >> appear but is removed completely by Lr's NR filter. Just crank it to >> 100 and you're good. >> >> BTW, if I had taken another shot of this on a tripod, you'd see just >> how shaky and blurred it is. This was hand-held at 1/40th sec. A K20D >> with the DA* 50-135 on it is a pretty heavy thing to hold steady at >> the best of times. > > > Is there a really good free-ware noise removal plugin for Photoshop CS5? > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and > follow the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
