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I use Topaz Denoise as a plug in, in lightroom, and I love it. I am getting great results. As a bird photographer I find that I crop heavily at times, so the noise reduction software is a game changer.

Good luck on your channel. I predict good things will come of it. Your delivery and thoroughness and attention to detail made the video easy to understand and take seriously. Keep up the good work because? We inquiring minds want to know!

Excellent review, I have found the same thing with my own experiments. Keep up the great work.

Thanks! I consider buying a second body in parallel to my R5, and your new video makes my decision even harder... 😅

Great stuff man!

Thanks for sharing another wonderful video like always 🐦👍🤗

Canon also makes another option for 'enlarging'. Rather than cropping your R5/6 images consider the R7 with higher pixel density as a starting point. The R6mkII price added to the R7 price is roughly the price of the R5. Of course we are free to use Gigapixel on small parts of the R7 images, too.

Great comparison. Have you done a print test?

when using your 600/4 are you using the FlexShooter Pro or FlexShooter Extreme ?

Canon R7 and AI Denoise gives crisp images with tons of detail.

Thank you for the comparison. I have found that the Topaz products are phenomenal and can make up for a lot of problems that naturally occur in the course of our work. Personally, I do like to make large prints, so the extra resolution of a big sensor is - though - as you point out - in many cases overkill I view it as a safety buffer - just as I use ProPhoto for the wider gamut coverage and 16 bit all the time to avoid banding - higher resolution can enable me to compensate for a mistake, As unlikely as it is that I might ever make one! I also plan to only buy one camera in the near future - the Sony A7R5 and likely that will be the last camera I buy for around 10 years. I don't shoot moving sports or wildlife - preferring landscapes and still objects that I then process as I see fit. Let's face it - there are always going to be new bells and whistles for cameras. I have found that buying quality upfront invariably pays in terms of longevity and durability on the backend and, over time is cheaper than "economizing" only to find later that I am found wanting features I wish I had.

Well done!

I’m getting a R6 mkii next week (hopefully) and I have gigapixel. I won’t feel the need for a R5. I’ve had staggeringly good results from files with my old 5D3 and 1DX. I can easily create a sharp detailed 50mp file that looks amazing. I’ve even created a 190mp just for fun and it looks good up to a point but has a lot of weirdness at anything above 50%. At 100% the pixels it’s created just don’t match what should be there. That’s obviously just an extreme case no one would use but realistic usage scenarios give great results. “Fixing” old low res files has mixed results.

I would use it with caution. I have it but don't use it much. Sometimes it introduces artifacts and noise.

I've heard that Topaz is no longer supporting or providing updates for their AI software Gigapixel, Sharpen or DeNoise. Apparently, all their efforts are going for Photo AI. Do you have any information about this Fabian?

I've been evaluating the trial versions of Topaz and came across a couple noteworthy and interesting issues with Gigapixel. Firstly, Topaz does NOT support my Lumix S5 ii RAW files, but it does support my older Lumix FZ2500's RAW files. I have to use Adobe's free RAW to .dng converter to get a usable file. 😞 Secondly, when resizing in Gigapixel and wanting a .dng file output to retain the maximum image information for further post-processing, the resultant file, when viewed in Windows is a thumbnail, displayed at 256 x 171 pixels, but it's a 459MB thumbnail! However, if you open that same file in your editing software, it is the expected large megapixel file, which can be post-processed. According to Topaz, this is an issue with Windows not being able to display .dng files. So, it only renders the thumbnail. This is not fixable by Topaz. Microsoft must address the .dng file format capability in Windows. 😞 I assume Apple users are Okay. So, while it looked like Gigapixel didn't work, I do have a usable way to resize my denoised .dng files from DxO PureRAW 3 and then continue post-processing, which I do in Affinity Photo (which also does NOT support my S5 ii RAW files without conversion to .dng! 😞 Clearly, Panasonic is low on the camera totem pole.) I have found the Topaz Gigapixel resizing results vary between images. Some are superb. Others not so much. However, it is potentially useful for those of us that don't need a high MP camera for a just handful of photos. I appreciate your approach with your videos! Very inciteful. Thanks!

Crop the frame then gigapixel, or gigapixel the whole frame, then crop?

How does it compare to Topaz Photo Ai?

For me....yes. My D850 is perfect to get 60" x 90" prints with close to "walk into it" detail. It all depends on what you are doing with it.

Makes a M43 camera and the large M43 range of half FF weight and size lenses very very attractive, as if they weren't before Gigapixel anyway.

And how does this compare to Adobe's super resolution in Photoshop?

Of course it can never be a "replacement" to raw hardware performance, but Topaz Photo AI (which include almost all Gigapixel functions) definately give a new life to old cameras. Its crazy you can use a D5100 to take a photo at ISO6400 and make big art gallery prints out of it. Also one critical advantage of higher resolution sensor is it provides more data for AI to work with. Back then, Canon 6D mkII had clearly better high ISO performance than my old D800. For me, this was the reason 6D mkII existed.. Today? I am not so sure. With ~50% more data for AI to discriminate what is a tree branch and what is fur, I think D800 does better all the way up until its (expanded) ISO limit despite being much older than 6d mkII. Don't believe? This is also interesting video idea to try if you have Topaz Photo AI. Shoot a test subject at high ISO like 12800 and then run noise reduction. When viewed at same size, I guarantee with AI-based NR on R5 will give better results than newer R6II. I suspect at one stop higher ISO, R5 will still give better result if you fine tune settings on both results.

It's good to resize heavily cropped but clean files..

I owned the 45mp R5 for a year, and was constantly cropping a LOT. Managed to get a lot of nice photos though. Then I bought the 32 mp R7, which puts twice as many pixels on my subjects as did the R5. Now, I only crop a little, and usually just for perfect framing / aesthetics. I get a LOT more great shots from my $1500 32 mp R7, than I ever did with my $3900 45mp R5. So I sold my R5 and bought a second R7 + another lens, and had $ left over :) I might have to give Gigapixel another try though. Tried it a couple years ago, and it sucked. But I'm sure its getting better.

Mega pixels do matters !

topaz ai can run on apple MacBook air m1?, Anyway you so cute! Love the video💗

So much details on your pupil 👁

these softwares are good. but as a supporter at launch, i'm locked to my version and have to pay full price again. never buying from them again if this is how they treat supporters

I don’t like the result of this software. It looks artificial with the purpose of showing that it is sharper. Just make the experience of comparing a real high resolution sensor with a standard one and work with them. It is not sharper , it is better.

You should do the math right if you wanted a true camparison. 1,4 x in gigapixel gives double the amount of pixels. The right way is to enlarge the R6-image by a factor of about 1.4 and then look at both images in 100% which you obviously didn´t do.

This software is deceiving, it’s called gigapixel, but unable to generate giga, pixel images

So, buy more powerful PC and upscale the images that you need sounds good idea to me.