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Working with in-camera noise reduction

Working with in-camera noise reduction

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Working with in-camera noise reduction

Noise is enough of a problem that a lot of software developers have spent a lot of time trying to figure out how to reduce noise on an image in post-production. There's been a lot of good work done in that regard, and we'll look at some of those options later, but your camera also probably offers some noise-reduction options that can be extremely helpful. You're going to need to do a little research, dig into your camera's manual, and see what noise-reduction features it has that you can turn on. You might see something called high ISO noise reduction. This is a special noise reduction routine that kicks in when you raise ISO above a certain point. On newer cameras, high ISO Reduction defaults to being turned on, and it works very, very well. You probably want to leave it on. On some Canon cameras, you actually have different levels of noise reduction that you can activate in the high ISO noise-reduction feature. So you might want to try those and experiment with them and see what you…

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