The whole batch of 12MP files did take some 15 minutes processing time from start to finish. Well, Pure RAW did an excellent job of removing noise and actually restoring lost detail, sharpening the image with no artefacts at all, removing a slight distortion and outputting as perfect a DNG file as it would be in an ideal world. The question was what would PureRAW’s result look like. I processed this image through Capture One Pro 21 again, using its automatic features. As I expected, the noise this time was unbearable.

My second test involved taking a shot in the same slightly lit room but this time with ISO set to 3200, which is the highest my camera will actually support (6400 ISO is a forced setting that is not really 6400 ISO). I then sharpened these images in Capture One Pro 21, and PureRAW’s results were slightly better. The results showed slightly sharper images. Processing with PureRAW seemed to take 46sec only, but because I had selected a clean up with DeepPRIME, the progress bar got stuck on “1 sec” that ultimately took about 5 minutes before the DNGs were ready. There was, however, a slight lens fuzziness. Despite this exposure being relatively long, no noise was present in the original. The first test I ran was with four shots from a Sony A700 at ISO 100 mounted on a tripod in a scarcely lit living room, requiring me to use a 3-seconds+ exposure time. When a company tells the press its new product can turn any RAW image into a perfect linear DNG that can be further processed in any linear DNG aware image editor, reviewers become suspicious, so I it was with some devilish pleasure I took a pre-release version of PureRAW to the test. DxO AI-based PureRAW removes noise, chromatic aberrations, unwanted vignetting, distortion, and insufficient sharpness with an unprecedented level of quality. DxO announced PureRAW, its newest application, to the press on March 29, 2021.

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