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Sharpening and chroma noise reduction are significantly improved already. Clumpiness and the watercolor look with sharpening which plagued the old processing engine seem to be gone. They haven't activated luminance noise reduction yet so have to wait and see what improvements they have there. Here's a thread showing some of the differences:Thomas, Lightroom 3 is meant to be Adobe's attempt at fixing the noise reduction algorithms. Once it is out we can compare to Capture One and see if they have really made any improvements.
Thomas:now the DNGs posted look much better.
As to moire... in the hair there are color artefacts so I expect there will be moire in patterns.
Attached screenshots of conversions from ACR/CS4 (first) and C1 (second); in C1 the arefacts are more obvious, still they are visible in ACR.
Carsten: of course, let's wait and see what Adobe improved in LR.
I wouldn't expect too much from C1 with the S2 DNGs as C1 supports DNG files quite good but not as good as native RAW files with dedicated profiles.
Mark:I also noticed and odd noise/artifact thing going on in dark background in a couple of the studio lit model shots (see left side of file no. 165). I am not sure what is going on here. Some of the problem could be due to background itself as it was not pure black and had some signs of wear in it.
https://rcpt.yousendit.com/759530971/f61ae1202f96529136bab3d81491cff7
Mark
not quite sure if it's really moire. This is a kind of color artefact I've only seen with microlenses sensors.Thomas:
I think that is moire in the hair. In C1, the moire adjustments fix it up a bit.
Robert
Now you know why Leica is so adamant about releasing images taken with pre-production gear! Folks are looking at these shots and making bottom line conclusions about the camera. Plus we have no idea as to the skill of the photographer!Do not know what you all think, but I find these results - especially at higher ISO - absolutely unimpressive.
BTW - LR3.0 Beta can be downloaded and used by everyone after registering, the official version will not be out before Q1/2010. I am currently testing it.