DeNoise software

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I have been using Topaz DeNoise software occasionally (though I use Topaz Sharpen a lot). Both are billed as ‘AI’, and both give good results. In the past few days Adobe have added ‘DeNoise’ to Lightroom, again billing it as AI. I decided to do a quick and dirty side-by-side test. Yesterday I took an against the light photograph of …

Scanning and processing film

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I don’t do my own ‘wet processing’ anymore, so when I send the film away I always also ask for scans. I know this is more expensive than home processing, but it’s a choice for convenience and, frankly, consistent results. I send my work to Exposure film lab whose service I find excellent. They scan with a Fuji Frontier SP-3000 or Noritsu …