- #DXO OPTICS PRO 11 REVIEW KEN ROCKWELL MANUAL#
- #DXO OPTICS PRO 11 REVIEW KEN ROCKWELL FULL#
- #DXO OPTICS PRO 11 REVIEW KEN ROCKWELL ISO#
DxO Optics Pro 9 automatically improves the optical flaws in your pictures with an exceptional level of quality. The auto-correction is best and better than most photo editing software. It is an ultra-precise analysis of each camera-lens combination.
#DXO OPTICS PRO 11 REVIEW KEN ROCKWELL MANUAL#
It is an automatic or manual mode, numerous intelligent tools can help you perfect your images.
Sliders are also more responsive in the new release, there's a new full-screen display mode, and keyboard shortcuts have been added for rating and filtering.DxO Optics Pro 11 is an image quality enhancement tool that a demosaicing system to better deal with RAW data. Other new or tweaked features in the new release include more intelligent tone mapping which now uses face detection to identify your subjects, automatic red-eye correction and microcontrast adjustment, and better midtone control with the selective tone function. The improved PRIME engine isn't the only change in DxO Optics Pro 11, but it's certainly the big news for me and anyone else who is a fan of available-light shooting.
#DXO OPTICS PRO 11 REVIEW KEN ROCKWELL FULL#
As you can see in the crops that follow the full image, despite the more-than-doubling of speed, the Optics Pro 11 version of the image retains the same detail and low noise levels of that from Optics Pro 10, but with cleaner results in out-of-focus areas and across tonal transitions.Ī fair few more worthwhile changes, as well Both passes at the image were on my HP ZBook 15 DreamColor laptop running Windows 7 Pro, and where Optics Pro 10 took 67 seconds to process the full image, Optics Pro 11 managed it in just 31 seconds.
#DXO OPTICS PRO 11 REVIEW KEN ROCKWELL ISO#
Both are 100% crops from an ISO 25,600 Panasonic G7 image with identical settings and using PRIME denoising.ĭxO's claims of better denoising held true in my own testingįor a side-by-side comparison, I ran the full image shown at the top of this article - shot last Halloween with the Panasonic G7 at ISO 25,600-equivalent - through both Optics Pro 10 and 11 using the DxO Standard preset, and switching to PRIME denoising at its Auto strength.
The results are noticeably more natural-looking in the bokeh in particular, just as DxO has promised in its announcement of Optics Pro 11.Ī side-by-side comparison of Optics Pro 10 (top) and Optics Pro 11 (bottom). Image quality is much better in bokeh and transitions, tooĪnd while the improvement in terms of image quality varies quite a bit with subject matter, this too can be very noticeable indeed when pixel peeping at 1:1 onscreen with the right combination of camera, subject and sensitivity. In my own informal testing, I've not seen quite that much of a boost, but have found it fairly consistently to work around 50-60% faster than the previous Optics Pro 10 release. DxO says that it can provide up to four times greater performance, with high ISO imagery in particular showing a great improvement in speed. The PRIME denoising engine is much fasterĭxO Optics Pro 11's updated PRIME engine, though, performs significantly better than past versions, both in terms of speed and image quality. Shown above is the full image compare the crops which follow below to get a feel for the improvement in image quality. It's both faster than before, and better-handles bokeh and tonal transitions.
DxO Optics Pro 11 boasts a refined PRIME denoising engine.