Originally posted by house With baked in NR you have to buy a new camera to take advantage of software improvements. You also can't choose what algorithms to use depending on scene and output. A camera manufacturer can't provide all the flexibility and experimentation of the worlds software developers in the camera. Phones can load third party apps and are designed for constant updates. Cameras can't do that.
'Baked In' simply means you cannot change it. Punct.
Whether the unchangeable changes come from hardware or software does not matter at all.
Software is usually changed for updates; be it firmware on a camera or a app on a camera does not matter at all.
Whether you change noise, or noise and levels {as the 'accelerator' does} does not matter at all.