Sharper Lenses And Less Noise -DxO PureRAW 3.7 Makes It Happen

[@mattisulanto]

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[@realdoctorobvious]

I agree, PureRAW has been eye-opening for me.

[@webersteve1547]

I was very impressed by PureRaw 1.0, but I'm put off by their upgrade polithy, as you get costly updates very often. Also I tried to persuade them to include older cameras (my venerable Leica S2) without results

[@michaelj7069]

I think the Complete Image area would be good if you're using photoshop and want to try out generative Ai to fill up the blank areas.

[@_Thumbnail_]

... Or if you want to crop the pic anyways. Then you can see the boundries of the unstreched pic and fit the crop right into it. BTW I didn't like the autostreching in the given samples. Especially in the greenhouse / wintergarden type of building. It looked almost fisheye-y in the corners.

[@mattisulanto]

The max rectangle, as the naming implies, crops automatically to the max possible image size. It's not auto stretching, whatever that even means. It's normal for very wide angle rectilinear lenses to stretch the subject/scene towards the edges of the frame due the way they are designed to render. It's the complete opposite of fisheye, because fisheye lenses are not rectilinear and towards the edges everything appears smaller and curvy.

[@letni9506]

I'm still using the original pure raw. I'm tempted by the latest version but i don't know if there will be real difference.

[@OlegVasylevskyi]

Dear Matti, I want to give you an idea for a future video. This is a special case of the topic of matrix resolution. I have never seen an explanation about shooting at a lower resolution than the matrix is ​​capable of. Photos used exclusively on websites do not require a resolution greater than 4 megapixels. Does this mean that I can shoot photos in Small instead of Large to reduce the size of the photo for processing and storage? What to choose? High resolution and then downscaling versus initially shooting at a lower resolution? How to compare the output quality?

[@mattisulanto]

I guess we usually want the max quality at the capture and then we can easily resize from that if necessary. If you don't need/want the max quality you can use whatever picture size you want of course. Comparing should be easy, just put the photos side by side on your screen.

[@OlegVasylevskyi]

Thanks!@@mattisulanto

[@BuildingByFaith]

Good to know that v3 to v3.7 is free. You inteoduced me to the original version and I've been using PureRaw on every photo. Do you use it on a Mac? Im trying to decide whether to get an M1 Max or M3 Max. Any thoughts?

[@mattisulanto]

I have 1,5 years old 14 inch MBP with M1 Pro and so far it's performing very well. I'm afraid I can't advice what Mac you should buy😀 Depends on your budget and what you want.

[@tonigenes5816]

Antime I tried DXO PureRaw, it was oversharpening the images, even when I disabled the "lens softness". So for me it was unusable. I guess for the people which have soft lenses, could work.

[@mattisulanto]

Thanks for sharing. I have not noticed that, but maybe my lenses are soft😀

[@tonigenes5816]

I tried on Olympus 300mm, pictures with birds and animals. No matter which settings I used, the subjects came out oversharped. The textures looked very atificial, overdone.

[@geogu3images]

Good observation, I stopped using DXO PureRaw for anything that resembles a portrait, faces which are way over sharpened even with minimal correction. I’m thinking that AI editing is becoming a unique rendering, which will probably work well for fine art photos or landscape but needs to become more film organic for portrait or documentary images. But it could just be user error.. 😊

[@miso56]

did you try to use old deepprime denoise (without xd)? i had similar issues due to the dp xd usage.

[@tonigenes5816]

​@@miso56 I only tried XD.

[@BrightExposure]

I think DXO PureRaw 3 is also applying AI sharpening aside from denoising algorithm.

[@mattisulanto]

Yes, if you choose lens sharpening. It sharpens selectively certain areas. That's how I understand it.

[@ruuddirks5565]

Unfortunately Pure Raw only accept Raw images. (I understand it is necessary for using lens profiles) It means I have to reprocess all my older pictures if I want to denoise them. And my phone photos (which need it the most) are left behind. I better stick with Topaz.

[@mattisulanto]

PureRAW is a RAW processor, but that would be the best way to denoise any photo. You just have to shoot RAW on your phone and problem solved😀