I’m using PL8 Elite 8.7.1 and noticed the other day that DeepPrime XD3 X-Trans no longer says Beta and is no longer greyed out on the RAF files from my X-T5 camera and appears to be applying the noise reduction.
I can find no mention of this change in the forums or in the PL8 or in the release notes. When did it happen?
Does not show as beta on my Mac. Cannot say when that changed.
I think it was on the last release ( 8.7.1) and only for mac.
No communication from DXO.
I test it , but i didn’t see a big difference between Xprime3 and XD3
Maybe it depends on how high the ISO was and how much noise was in the shot. I can see a clear difference between DeepPrime3 and XD3 X-Trans on some X-T5 ISO6400 shots. Admittedly it’s not a massive difference, but it’s there.
Would you mind sharing exports? Was there a significant difference in processing time?
Both are pretty slow on my computer and the original files are on an external drive, but the XD3 was significantly slower to export at 44s compared to 17s for the DeepPrime3.
The first photo is the XD3
A 200% loupe view:
I noticed this after the last Mac update. I cannot tell a difference between “standard” and the other options for my X100 VI RAF (“newer” sensor). I asked DXO about it and I got the impression this feature is still under development. I use C1 for my RAFs and it does a good enough job.
There’s a significant difference in noise from high ISO files between Standard and XD3 processing on that sensor.
This is an ISO5000 shot, 1 is DX3, and 2 is Standard
Standard on the left, XD3 on the right.
I can get nowhere near those speeds, even smaller RAF files from my XT-1 and X-T3 come in at 30s for XD3 processing, so either you have a much more capable setup than my 2019 iMac or I’m doing something wrong.
well, it was (only) about speed differences with random raf files
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and here one from DPReview (XT-3)
The “non-beta version” for Fujifilm seems to be a kind of soft launch. I’m curious to see when the Win and PR5 versions will be released.
I’m a portrait, event and wedding photographer and just tried XD3 for a sunset engagement that I did with the X-T5.
I ran the Fuji files PureRaw 5 using the default settings (DeepPRIME 3), and I ran them through PhotoLab 8.7.2 with XD3. In PhotoLab Luminance was toned down to 30 because that is high enough to be effective, but low enough to not cause the image to look weird.
Results are not great. I found that with XD3 shadows are lifted weirdly, and skin texture is smoothed in a way that is distracting and waxy.
I did another test where I set Luminance to 10 and skin textures looked weird in a similar to the “worminess” that we use deal with on Fuji files.
My guess is XD-3 is still not ready for X-Trans V files and it was enabled by mistake.
