AI denoising - fact or fake?

In my test of the new in DxO Photolab 8 included AI-based denoising DeepPrime XDS2, I questioned, based on the incredibly detailed results, how many of the resulting details are…

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Japan 2023

Tokyo, Hiroshima, Kyōto and Mount Fuji Lake Ashi, Hakone, Japan In February 2023, we once again had the opportunity to visit Japan. The trigger this time, as in 2014, was…

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Tokyo

Tokyo was the first destination of our trip. We arrived there after a good 14-hour night flight on the evening of February 12th 2023 and were picked up at the…

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Hiroshima and Miyajima Island

From Tokyo we took the Shinkansen to Hiroshima on February 17th, 2023. There we spent two nights in the Mitsui Garden Hotel, where we had already been in 2014. Unfortunately,…

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Kyōto

From Hiroshima, we took the Shinkansen to Kyoto on February 19th, 2023. There we spent six nights in a very nice apartment at MIMARU Kyoto Station near the main train…

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Denoising with AI in Lightroom Classic

After DxO with DeepPRIME and Topaz with Denoise AI, Adobe's new Lightroom Classic version 12.3 (and also Camera Raw v 15.3) has finally implemented Artificial Intelligence to remove noise. This…

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DxO PureRAW 3

DxO today introduced the new version of their RAW processor PureRAW 3*. I already had the opportunity to test a beta version of it in detail previously and would like…

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