noiseninja vs 1Dmk3

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hiya,

now im yet to enable and try the built in noise reduction on the 1D, but is it worth doing this (i.e. - is it better) compared to noiseninja? i guess it would save me going through and processing each shot manually afterwards. any drawbacks like delayed writing to CF etc?

ive got an indoor equestrian event next week and plan to do some testing before hand but thought id throw it out to the floor before hand..

cheers
 
neil_g said:
hiya,

now im yet to enable and try the built in noise reduction on the 1D, but is it worth doing this (i.e. - is it better) compared to noiseninja? i guess it would save me going through and processing each shot manually afterwards. any drawbacks like delayed writing to CF etc?

ive got an indoor equestrian event next week and plan to do some testing before hand but thought id throw it out to the floor before hand..

cheers
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Can't comment on the in built noise reduction on the 1D MKIII, but for noiseninja, just downloaded the profile for my camera off the site, rather than trying to create one myself. http://www.picturecode.com/profiles.htm
 
In camera noise reduction is for long exposures. It takes a second "blank" exposure and stores the difference. Not really much use for fast shutter, high ISO stuff and it slows down the camera.
 
grumpybadger said:
In camera noise reduction is for long exposures. It takes a second "blank" exposure and stores the difference. Not really much use for fast shutter, high ISO stuff and it slows down the camera.
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There's a high ISO noise reduction on or off option in addition to the long exposure noise reduction option.
 
Fair point. I turned that off on my MkIV and forgot about it completely!

It does say a few interesting things in the manual:

1. Strong will slow down the camera
2. If you directly print a RAW or view it on the back screen you may not see the effect. You may have to open the image in DPP to see the full impact. This suggests that DPP is getting a flag from the RAW file and doing further NR in post

Personally, I don't use it as you are throwing away detail (as you always are with NR) that you can't recover if you do it in camera. Give me NR in post so you can selectively apply any day
 
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