
To get the same results via hardware upgrades would cost me many thousands of dollars.

And, if you need what it does, it's super-cheap, too. And, unlike some other apps, applying DeepPRIME is a one-click batch operation - no tweaking needed. This speedup has been transformative for my high-volume tight-deadline workflow. And, on my $999 M1 MacBook Air or $1099 Mac mini, PhotoLab 5 Elite does noise reduction processing 6x-8x faster than I experienced just one year ago on my fire-breathing custom-upgraded 8-core $5000 cylinder Mac Pro, outputting 42MP JPEGs in 10 seconds each. This combo is amazingly liberating for low-light work. With DeepPRIME and bright primes on my a7RIII, I'm getting very clean results at ISO 25,600 in truly dark environments, letting me work without flash while still delivering the image quality my clients expect. iridient – Iridient X-Transformer 2.0.20-year corporate event shooter here.Speaking of DxO, recently they also added X-Trans support to DxO PureRAW 2.Īnd since we talk editing, I thought to make a mini-roundup with some of the editing related articles, including the ones of Thomas mentioned above in this article.

If you are using DxO PhotoLab 5 already, feel free to let me (and us all) know in the comments what you think about it.

A downside: in order to use Fujifilm’s film simulation, you have to purchase also the “ DXO Film Pack” as an extra. Thomas Fitzgerald, my go-to source for all things X-Trans files editing (links below) says that DxO is the best X-Trans converter for “ Pure Image Quality” in combination with DxO’s DeepPrime noise reduction technology. So much so, that, even though I am a hardcore CaptureOne user and lover, I think DxO PhotoLab 5 will be the one software I will check out in depth in 2022 as it seems to perform better than anything else. And from all I could see so far, the results are absolutely fantastic. The arguably most exciting event was DxO finally supporting Fujifilm X-Trans files with DxO PhotoLab 5. A few exciting things happened on the X Trans demosaicing front recently.
