I recently got a Nikon Z6iii to go alongside my D5. I’ve just started doing some side-by-side comparisons and noticed something a little odd in the denoised output.
First screenshot is the 2 images side-by-side at 200% zoom in NX Studio. I’m not sure whether this is a JPG preview or NX Studio’s own demosiacking.
Second screenshot is Windows Photo Viewer showing JPGs at 200% created in DxO at 100% quality with DeepPrime applied with 1.5 global lens softness compensation (all other detail-related values set to default) and appropriate camera-specific rendering models applied.
Observations: noise in the NX Studio view looks qualitatively similar. After denoising, the Z6iii image looks to have distortions in the light area on the wall. They appear similar to JPG artifacts, but that should not be occurring at 100% quality. Is this a shortcoming of the Z6iii denoising model relative to the D5’s?
And yes, I know that pixel peeping at 200% is bound to reveal warts, but I was surprised at pretty substantial differences between the DeepPrime outputs for the two different bodies.