Digital BW, The Print

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "Eric Neilsen" <e.neilsen2@...> 
wrote:
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> Robert, What other noise programs did you try? 

Noise Ninja, one from NIK I believe and another I don't remember (was a couple of years 
ago, about the time that CS3 came out, ACR 4.0 was the comparison)  I tried them on 
individual images and decided that nothing could save those images (the 3200 ones) and 
passed on the whole idea of third party software and just went back to low ISO shooting 
with Nikon's in camera noise reduction for long exposures.  The idea of using the multishot 
approach never crossed my mind until I looked at the PhotoAcute program.  I just happened 
to have saved a couple of sets of those 3200 shots that I had thought to run through HDR 
so they were available to try with the PhotoAcute.  

I should have some time next week to shoot something with the PhotoAcute multishot 
approach in mind.  One thing I noted about the PhotoAcute method was that color noise was 
extremely reduced without losing any detail at all and that I could further reduce luminance 
noise in ACR until I was unhappy with the detail loss.  I'm not big on 3rd party software 
having always felt that PS had the technique somewhere inside it but this looks worth a bit 
of time.