

The old adage of “if it sounds too good” presumably applies, and they really mean 1/3 ISO steps, in which case, they mean an ISO 2500 image with DeepPRIME will look almost as good as an ISO 1600 image with PRIME. The intention of the statement, presumably, is to imply that demosaicking an ISO 5000 image with DeepPRIME will look as good in terms of detail, dynamic range and noise as an ISO 1600 image processed with PRIME. DxO claims that “you gain nearly two ISO sensitivity values compared to our earlier version, DxO PRIME”. DeepPRIME, as its name suggests, has its roots in deep learning, specifically convolutional neural networks. The headlining feature is DeepPRIME, a new noise reduction paradigm after PRIME, which is a Bayesian statistics approach and continues to be available as another option within the program. In the demo, it does look pretty clean, and DxO says it supports “complex grouped edits” – sounds like it’s referring to presets, but that’s just a guess, and maybe there is more to it than that. On top of that, the DxO PhotoLab workspace is now searchable, so you can enter “light” and it will suggest smart lighting, and so on.Ī big step forward seems to be the “Advanced History”. The latest version, announced today, throws in a few new nice-to-haves, like custom watermarking on export and a more customisable workspace, which has so far been a key feature of competitor Capture One. Another year, another version of DxO Optics, which for several generations now has been called PhotoLab.
