Dick Turpin
New Member
As a newbie to Ricoh, I am still finding my way around the camera, and yesterday whilst I was enjoying a meal with some family members whom I had not seen for a while, I asked the waiter to take a few shots of us using my GR. On the 3" screen, they looked OK, so I didn't realize that there was a problem until I downloaded them onto my Mac. I had the camera set to TAv, which means that the camera chooses the ISO for correct exposure. We were inside a converted barn, so it was quite dark. However, I enabled the flash, so assumed everything would be fine. I was wrong! The images were shot at ISO 25600, in a low light situation, so you can imagine how noisy they were.
I started looking for a way to try and salvage them, and Topaz Photo AI seemed to be the option likely to give the best results. I discovered that they offer a trial, so I went ahead and installed it, with the idea that if I was happy with the results, I might go ahead and purchase it. That was until I discovered that it is $200, which might be fine for a professional, but for a hobbyist, who is only likely to use it once in a while, it doesn't make sense. Added to this, it's not a free trial at all, it's a demo. In other words, you can play around with your images to see what it can do, but you can't save your work without purchasing the licence. I understand the reason for this approach, to stop people using the trial to get over a problem and then not bothering to buy it afterwards. Needless to say, I have uninstalled the app, and must now look for an alternative means to try and save my images.
If anyone has any experience with other apps that are effective at denoising, I'd be interested to hear from you. I use ON1 Photo RAW 2024, but the denoising feature on that is pretty lame.
I started looking for a way to try and salvage them, and Topaz Photo AI seemed to be the option likely to give the best results. I discovered that they offer a trial, so I went ahead and installed it, with the idea that if I was happy with the results, I might go ahead and purchase it. That was until I discovered that it is $200, which might be fine for a professional, but for a hobbyist, who is only likely to use it once in a while, it doesn't make sense. Added to this, it's not a free trial at all, it's a demo. In other words, you can play around with your images to see what it can do, but you can't save your work without purchasing the licence. I understand the reason for this approach, to stop people using the trial to get over a problem and then not bothering to buy it afterwards. Needless to say, I have uninstalled the app, and must now look for an alternative means to try and save my images.
If anyone has any experience with other apps that are effective at denoising, I'd be interested to hear from you. I use ON1 Photo RAW 2024, but the denoising feature on that is pretty lame.