K-7 Noise Ninja profile

[eagle]

I just spent more than a fair while taking pics of the calibration chart and creating my own noise ninja profiles for the K-7.

If anyone doesn't want to go through this process, PM me and I'll email them through to you.

Basically, I have shot all test shots in RAW, opened them using default settings in ACR, created a profile. Opened them again in ACR and processed them with 'auto' setting for exposure etc, which added approx +1.2 for exp, and profiled again. I was using 50mm manual lens.

I did this for all ISO values from 100 to 6400 in 1/3 steps.

These profiles should provide a good starting point, and seem to err in the favour of retaining details, rather than smudging, and improve even low ISO shots for the pixel peepers

[pcarfan]

How exactly does this work?

I have the K-7, lightroom 2.4 and CS2. Can I use this program?, can I purchase a standalone noise ninja that will take this profile.

Can you post some before after pictures of using these profiles.

Thank you.

[eagle]

I have the purchased it as a photoshop plugin, but it comes as a stand alone as well I'm pretty sure.
You can select 'Load Profiles' while using noise ninja, pretty simple process.

Here's one example. ISO 3200. No other post production, except noise reduction.

1. Entire image, unedited


2. 100% crop of same image


3. Noise Ninja, using my profile


4. 100% crop of the noise reduced image


Note again, that I have not applied sharpening, levels or curves adjustments.

[Arpe]

Thanks for those mate, I think they're pretty good.

[PhotoJim]

PM sent!

How do you go about making Noise Ninja profiles? Does it require a test target to photograph?

_Jim

[eagle]

you can download a copy of their test chart, follow the instructions on how to photograph it, then profile each picture. It's pretty easy.

[pentaxk10duser]

can you post a before noise reduction picture so I can see the differance .thanks Steve

[eagle]

First two pics are before noise reduction mate - second two are after