

DxO Optics Pro 5.3 extends the range of usable sensitivity while maintaining color consistency and saturation, and bringing out the finest image details.”

“Using DxO Optics Pro v5.3, photographers may choose to take advantage of this gain to freeze movement, increase depth-of-field or capture images in even lower lighting conditions than are possible today – or even get rid of their flash gun altogether! Alternatively they may choose to invest money in less expensive lenses with smaller apertures, relying on DxO Optics Pro 5.3 to compensate for the lower exposure. DxO can’t manage to reach there, so they must mean something else, such as “at raw file conversion stage”. “This translates into a dramatic increase in capture flexibility.”Īt photo capture? – that happens inside the camera. “The noise removal technology for RAW images featured in DxO Optics Pro 5.3 opens up exciting options to photographers providing them with up to a 2-stop gain at photo capture, as if digital grain never really existed,” says Cyrille de La Chesnais, director of the photography business at DxO Labs. But until now, these high sensitivities were of little practical use to photographers due to the very poor resulting image quality” – their words, but we have had excellent results from Nikon’s 25,600 both from in-camera JPEGs and Adobe Camera Raw conversions. “Most of the recent DSLRs feature impressive high ISO settings, sometimes as high as 25 600 ISO. They also say that new RAW conversion technology “turns the promises of very high ISO (up to 25,600) into reality”. DxO Labs today has announced the availability of DxO Optics Pro v5.3, a new release which includes support for the Sony cRAW format missing from previous versions.
