Adobe has recently added an AI-Powered Denoise feature on Adobe Photoshop and Lightroom. I have tried the new feature for the first time this morning on a Cardinal photo that I have taken yesterday with my Sony Alpha A7R V ( I love my A7R V but my 'old' A7 IV is still better at high ISO) at ISO 12800 and am extremely satisfied with the results, it is miles better with I could get with Adobe's regular noise reduction adjustments, no matter how hard I tried.
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Shot at ISO 12800 with the Sony A7R V
The right side is out of camera RAW at 100% and the left side is after the Denoise applied at with Lightroom. One downside is that denoising takes close to 50 seconds on my MacBook M1 Pro 14 despite only using the 26MP RAW-M format on the A7R V on this image but it is worth the wait when the results are so good. The other issue I have observed is that the edges on the left side between the cardinal's feather and the green background are looking a bit artificial, but I am sure Adobe engineers can improve this with the next iterations.
Adobe Lightroom new Enhance Screen
Softwares such as Topaz and DxO already has effective AI powered denoising features which I hear all good things about but I like to stick with Adobe products so this have been a very valuable addition to my post processing tools. While I used to generally limit upper ISO limit to ISO 6400 on the A7R V, going forward I feel more comfortable to go as high as ISO 25600.
Read Also: Adobe Denoise Mystified for further details about this feature
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