7 Replies Latest reply: Apr 28, 2011 11:58 PM by Dorin Nicolaescu-Musteață RSS

    Nikon D70s + Process 2010 + Luminance Noise Reduction + Adjustment Brush = blurry picture

    BDLImagery Community Member

      Please let me know if you have experienced the following and if it is a known bug:

       

      I'm processing a very noisy Nikon D70s raw photograph with Lightroom 3: In the develop mode, I applied the 2010 process under Camera Calibration, and then set the Luminance Noise Reduction to 98 in the detail panel. At this point, the resulting improvement over the original is dramatic and the details are rather crisp given the original condition of the photo.

       

      However, the moment I apply a local adjustment to the photo, bluriness is introduced to the photo; the bluriness affects the entire photo and not only the areas impacted by the local adjustment. This undesired effect appears with the adjustment brush and gradient and the only parameter that the local adjustment applies is an increase in the exposure by 0.01, which should normally not produce much of a visible effect.

       

      I exported the photo to a jpeg and found the undesired effect in the jpeg file.

       

      I believe this issue has a relation with the RAW file coming from a Nikon D70s as I performed a Sync of all the settings on RAW photos originating from a Canon 30D, and from a Canon XSi and did not see any of the undesired effect.

       

      These steps appear to be reproduceable on any of the Nikon D70s RAW photos that I have in my catalog.

       

      Please share some feedback.

       

      Thanks,

      Bruno