I'm loving the a77 but there's no doubt it is noisy at high ISOs. I'm trying to find the best processing for using these files because the AF speed and accuracy - not to mention the 12 fps - are too good to pass up.
These are ISO 5,000 at f3.5 and 1/640 sec.
No noise reduction:
My best effort with LR 3.5:
My initial attempt using Topaz Denoise 5 (which is new to me):
What do you think?
Obviously the Topaz is less noisy - but is it losing too much detail here or does this look good. Obviously the NR levels and detail levels are adjustable but I just want to know what you think looks good.
I'm open to suggestions.