conrad2k Posted December 17, 2015 Share Posted December 17, 2015 How many images would be considered ideal to the best effect in stacking images for noise reduction? In the tutorial, you seemed to add 20+ images. Could you get a comparable effect with fewer images? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff Callum Posted December 17, 2015 Staff Share Posted December 17, 2015 How conrad2k Most people use 10 images when stacking images for Noise Reduction. The image attached was achieved by stacking 10 images :) conrad2k 1 Quote Please tag me using @ in your reply so I can be sure to respond ASAP. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
conrad2k Posted December 18, 2015 Author Share Posted December 18, 2015 Thank you! I'll play around. I am curious whether there will be differences between how it handles noise reduction on a Bayer pattern sensor (e.g., a NEF) and the Fujifilm X-Trans sensor. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BlauerClaus Posted December 18, 2015 Share Posted December 18, 2015 Conrad2k, your question caused me to experiment a while. A very general answer is: there is no optimum. An optimum assumes that there is a number of photos from which on the result gets worse. This is not the case. Every additional photo improves the noise reduction. But the contribution per photo gets smaller and smaller, and the calculation time gets higher and higher. While adding pictures to the stack, my observations are (observed with 100%zoom): - the first 4 pictures significantly contribute to the noise reduction improvement, wow! - the 5.-8. picture can be considered as polishment, they raise the noise reduction of the picture to 90% of the overall result. - the 9. and 10. picture only slightly contribute to improvements, i guess it is now about 98% of what you can reach. - the 11. and 12. picture brings quite invisible improvements, its more the light than the noise that changes slightly - the 13. and 14. picture are the last pictures where I remark any visible changes at all at 100% zoom For more pictures, I have to zoom in: - the 15.-18. picture bring, visible with 170% zoom, still slight improvements on pixel level Finally it is a trade of between quality, computational power, hard disk space and time. If you want maximum quality and you have a zoom of 150%, you see still noticeable noise reduction improvements between 14 and 18 pictures. Another perspective: - at the zoom level "overall picture" (cmd 0): the 11.-18. pictures do not bring remarkable improvements - at the zoom level "100%": the 14.-18. pictures do not bring remarkable improvements As you see, - 10 pictures provide super results for the overall picture zoom, - 14 pictures provides super results even for 100% zoom, and - 18 pictures are for purists. Here the examples for 1, 4, 10, 14 and 18 pictures. Click on them to see them full size (each ca. 220kb) In any case, thanks to the Affinity Photo development team for this powerful feature. The noise reduction is impressive. Best regards BlauerClaus superhaschi, barninga, DragonManila and 2 others 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
anon1 Posted December 18, 2015 Share Posted December 18, 2015 I wonder if you could create an even more efficient stacking algorithm.I faced the problem that without a tripod 10+ fotos in a boost weren't 100% alligned. There was a tree in the foreground and it may have moved a bit as well.Couldn't the algorithm detect big areas that are consistent trough out the stack (the tree) and only recalculate the small areas (noisy pixels)?Well the tree would be more noisy in that case but the balance between "exclude big areas" and "recalculate everything" could be adjusted through a slider? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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