DxO Pure Raw 3 - The NEW Denoise Champion! 

I bought it, installed it, used it, and I love it! Thanks for keeping me up to date on the best noise reduction method yet, and by a considerable margin by my experience. 👍👍👍

Bought it based on the results from the 30 day free trial. Shot a MLB night game in 2015 with the. D7000 with a Nikkor 55-200 @ 200mm. Shooting a pitching sequence for an overlapping composite. It was a night game so I had to increase the ISO to counter the limited light caused by f5.6 max aperture and the 1/2000sec shutter speed to freeze the pitching motion with max clarity.. The image had a lot of noise and good for the personal scrap book but way too much noise for the intended composite. DXO Pure RAW 3 cleaned the entire image. No noise period, leaving a pristine image (no joke) perfect for my composite. The software read the RAW info, downloaded the correction settings for the exact camera and lens used and corrected for the lens distortion to boot.. The final image was not cropped at all. It is phenomenal. If you can't afford pro gear, this program will give you professional looking results as if you used expensive gear. I have some really old images shot with a consumer level D40x and the 18-55 kit lens. Looking forward to testing it out to see the results.

I'm sold on it. Honestly blew me away as i expect that "painterly" look you get with most software and Topaz . This seems to avoid that and is very clean.

Thanks and I have Photolabs and Topaz however, all ends up in LR. For my last trip I used Photolabs to "do" Pure Raw and adding Clearview. Seemed a good result. In the end I used LR denoise instead of Topaz.

Great review. I also have Topaz AI in addition to Pure RAW. All the RAW photos go through Pure RAW first, but there are times that Topaz AI adds some nice finishing touches. I don't use Photo AI for may primary noise reduction as I find it blurs the photos a bit more than I like, but it is nice for older JPG files. Pure RAW only works on RAW images.

I have worked PR3 just half a day now. I'm flippin' crazy over it. 25600 ISO stills, under exposed -1, processed firstly by PR3 then C1 are flawless. Working with aging 7RII tech, and I'm thinking this may allow me to expunge my GAS. They made a winner.

thanks! really appreciate the quick review.

I've been using version 2 and found it superb. Version 3 has more options and the upgrade price is reasonable. For me, by some distance, the best noise reduction software. It's only drawback is the large files created by the conversion.

Pure Raw 2 worked with X-Trans sensors also.

It looks like it changes color and tone a lot.

INSANE

Thanks for the demo, impressive, which software you use for object removal?

I used DXO Pureraw 1, but the sharpening artifacts were bad, making it unusable. I'm happy to see that DXO listened to feedback, and now we have the option to switch off lens sharpening. This is how it should be used if you don't want to get that nasty sharpening countour around everything. Setting it to soft is somehow acceptable, but anything beyond that is as bad as it was in DXO Pureraw 1 or worse. Now, It's working very well with DJI Mavic 2 pro, but I wish to see smartphones added to it, like S22 Ultra. And, why not, DJI Pocket 2, for which the raw files really need some AI help.

Their upgrade pricing is very expensive. It’s barely less than a new licence. I bought version 2 just a month ago. I emailed DXO support asking for a discount code on an upgrade to version 3. Not a chance. Won’t be upgrading. Version 2 will do for now.

I noticed one instance where DeepPrime outperforms DeepPrime XD, and that's with stars and northern lights. I would get some very odd artifacts all over the sky with the latter... Which is interesting.

Great video! I use Topaz Denoise with my wildlife shots, as it seems many wildlife photographers do. I was under the impression that Topaz Denoise worked better for denoising than Topaz Photo AI, but I could be misinformed. Would be very interested to see what DxO Pure Raw 3 could do with aviation photos. I haven't found any noise reduction product to be effective with those, as the denoise algorithms seem to be confused by smooth, relatively texture-less metal surfaces. They end up leaving tons of noise, smoothing out or mucking up details (seams, rivets, or text) or both. Very frustrating!

I'll definitely take a look at this because I wasn't that happy with the DXO version 2 (2023) and so stuck with Topaz AI.

Wouldnt mind trying this on low light high iso images.

Gotta ask what brand of external hd holder is yours. I’ve seen so many but tons get bad reviews of not staying stuck to the laptops. Curious how yours is working out. ?? Thanks

Nik collection isn't created by dxo labs though nowadays they are developing it

This should help with the X-T5 files. Bought & installed.

Been using Pure Raw 2 for a while now and really like it. However, it doesn't work on Astro photos at 10,000 ISO and at 100 ISO it makes the image way to sharp. Almost looks fake. Otherwise, it works great for all other images. May upgrade to 3 but not right now.

I’ve very recently purchased Topaz, so I’m not eager to spend money on another similar program but your results are really impressive. Definitely going to consider a future purchase of DxO.

DXO is the best but the one thing I don't like about DXO they won't support built in lens profiles. If your shooting video you might want the built in lens profile to match your stills. Also I might want the built in lens profile because that's how I framed it and my Olympus came when shooting use the built in lens profile. I might be having internet issues and can't download the DXO profile.

I have tried all AI denoise software. PureRaw is the best

Thanks for the review. Might jump from my 1st version now 😃However, it looks like you still cannot save to the same folder as a setting, Just next to the original image like any other program does ... . I do not understand why this isn't a possibility ... I would want the image always next to the otginal raw, maybe even auto stacked. So I always have to either designate the folder for each image, or copy from a "processed" folder into the original location. Why does DxO introduce this unnecessary step into the workflow by forcing to choose a dedicated folder?

Which one is faster, topaz or this?

Is it a subscription or a one time payment?

Will it work with Bridge and Photoshop?

What is the difference between Pure Raw3 and Pure Raw2?

What's going on in the shadow areas of the skin on the DxO pure Raw left image at ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-_M2dZvG6Eb0.html? Under the hat, the man's left ear, the skin under the eye, there is no detail, just smeared pale gray color, whereas the image on the right has detail, tonal gradations and natural true color..

Takes way too long to edit. It took 12 minutes to edit a 24mp. image from my Canon.