Noise reduction?

[5user5]

I am shooting with a Canon 30d. I have more noise than I would like to have. I am shooting at 100 ISO RAW. I have tried the noise filters in Bridge and PScs3 but they don't seem to get the job done. I was wondering if there was a plug-in or some piece of software that could do a better job than CS3.

Another thing I had a question about was making large photos from an 8.2mp camera. I have been told "Genuine Fractals" is a good way to go. Any advice?

Thanks a bunch

-Josh

 

[Sw1tchFX]

I have more noise than I would like to have. I am shooting at 100 ISO RAW.

It's not the camera, it's you. Read your manual and learn how to expose correctly.

 

[shorty6049]

i dont quite understand how you'd have more noise than you want at iso 100.... i just dont hear that complaint ... ever

 

[bhop]

Eh.. i'm going to have to agree. I have an older Nikon d70 and don't have noise issues at iso 200.. even 800 is acceptable to me personally.

But when I do have a problem, I choose Noise Ninja (google it)

 

[Digital Matt]

Photoshop's camera raw plugin just doesn't do a great job in my opinion. You'll get much better results out of the box with DPP, but I prefer to use Capture One.

 

[TCimages]

I've never seen noise @ ISO 100 on my 30D. Can you post an example?

 

[5user5]

Hmmm. Well I use a Hasselblad back at work and it has no noise. If you put the two side by side you would see how noisy your 30d is. I guess none of you know of a good plugin or some third party software?

 

[5user5]

There is also the lack of subtle tone gradation in this like clouds. Any advice on smoothing that out?

 

[TCimages]

I use Noise Ninja, which was suggested above

 

[5user5]

ok thanks

 

[Antithesis]

Noise Ninja and Neat Image both seem to get a good amount of positive feedback. Are you brightening images in photoshop? That would give you quite a bit of noise, but if your looking at an unedited RAW image and there is a lot of noise, something might be wrong with your camera.

 

[5user5]

I am getting color noise or it is just not gradating enough for my tastes. I am also trying to get the biggest file I can so I up the pixels in Bridge. That might be where I'm going wrong. That is why I also asked about "Genuine fractals". Seems kinda crazy to make something that isn't there but I thought I would give it a shot. Doing retouching on such a small file is frustrating.