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RoB_m
20th of July 2004 (Tue), 21:47
i have grain surgery but i've found it to be pretty worthless so far. all it does is blur the hell out of my images. is there anything else i can try that is mac compatible?

looks like noise ninja is my next choice. has anyone used both?
Qurlyjoe
21st of July 2004 (Wed), 07:11
I use Dfine Selective 1.0 by NIK Multimedia http://www.nikmultimedia.com/dfine/usa/entry.php?&info=help/dfine_selective.shtml

I like the results I get with it. It's a PS plugin. They have (for extra cost) profiles for various cameras' characteristics, including the 10D. I don't know if they've got a profile for the DRebel or other Canons.
meow
21st of July 2004 (Wed), 09:44
It was up a while ago.
http://photography-on-the.net/forum/showthread.php?t=35963
RoB_m
21st of July 2004 (Wed), 11:42
thanks,
i'm going to try Dfine with an S40 profile and see how it goes.
i'm trying to get the noise out of this shot.

http://rexthewonderhorse.com/rob/hills.jpg
who10
22nd of July 2004 (Thu), 10:03
Something else to consider (if you have or need Office2004) is Virtual PC (version 7 now comes with OSX ver of OFFICE).

NeatImage actually runs pretty well on a 500mhz G4 using VirtualPC - I upgraded memory to 1gig and processor to 1.25ghz and performance is respectable. My hope is that NeatImage will move faster on their OSX product - it's really a nice program.

Virtual PC option not viable if you don't need the program for anything else...

David
who10
26th of July 2004 (Mon), 16:22
Here's a shot at it... (Neat Image on a G4 with Virtual PC)

http://www.haskellct.com/photos/hills_filtered.jpg
Qurlyjoe
27th of July 2004 (Tue), 06:45
Seems to work pretty good for the noise, but the shot also seems to have lost the teeniest bit of the feel of depth somehow. Maybe add a touch of sharpening after the noise removal?
dn7elson
27th of July 2004 (Tue), 07:32
Here it is with Neat Image at reduced strength allowing more detail and a bit of noise to remain.

http://www.pbase.com/image/31864800.jpg
who10
27th of July 2004 (Tue), 09:41
Thats a nice touch, Dale. Actually I was attempting to demonstrate (or proving to myself) that the current version of NeatImage actually runs on a Mac with acceptable performance. In real life I never run NR on an image as small as the sample available, and then only to remove my 10D "noise fingerprint" (I rarely sample the actual image for noise analysis) - generally/always use a custom profile created for the specific camera/lens/aperature/ISO combination - there's too much opportunity for degrading detail otherwise, certainly for my level of expertise with NeatImage.

Again... nice work with NI parameters.
dn7elson
27th of July 2004 (Tue), 11:16
In real life I never run NR on an image as small as the sample available,

Fortunately, the objectionable noise appeared to be in the blue sky areas, so I just took small samples from a few areas of unobstructed blue sky and used it for the profile. Too much detail throughout the image to get a real good sample any other way.