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Comparison of various Noise reduction software for Olympus .orf files

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  Blog on noise reduction of om-1 files using 4 programs i.e. lightroom, pure raw 3, photo ai and om workspace. This was written on 12 th   August 2023 and all the software used were updated as on that date Variables   1)      Comparison of various engines at 4 different ISO ranges. 3200,6400, 12800, 25600.Pure raw at 2 conditions i.e. soft and standard. No distortion correction, no vignetting correction. AI photo. Standard or ai defined. LR auto, om workspace standard across all and also best of class. Also On1 Nonoise, Topaz Denoise and Photolab 6 will be studied 2)      Comparison of NR in 2 step process. First om system and then topaz ai or first pure raw and then topaz ai. 3)      Noise levels for ETTR with 1 stop +  4)      Noise levels comparison of 1 stop less exposure and hence 1 stop less ISO and then boosted in LR. Comparison of 2 different f-stops. 5)      ...
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October 2022 OM1 for bird photography   All focal lenths mentioned are in FF equivalent.   In 2021 I had written a blog on my website  www.glimpsesofnature.net  about what I would like to see from Olympus (Or their new owners i.e. OM systems). I had basically pointed out that OM has a huge advantage in wildlife and certain other genres which it may not enjoy in other genres like say wedding photography.  Note: I am going to digress here a bit. We had a wedding function at home recently and the photographers came with a full frame camera and f/1/4, f/18 lenses etc. many of the photos had too shallow depth of field and many photos were actually ruined. So looking at high ISO performance, of the new OM-1 body, I think wedding photography could also be a good field for m43,purely because of slightly better DOF in close settings like mehendi party or something.   So I had argued, that OM must come out with lenses and systems which are excellent for wildlife...