

Given a well exposed image, shot at any ISO, with a lot of high frequency detail, I will now be reaching for Irident Developer on a regular basis (remember, I already own it, but haven’t used it much). Next come two very technical RAW converters, though their approaches are very different on a default conversion Photo Ninja probably does the most to an image Irident Developer does very little. GOOD: Photo Ninja 1.2.2a (38) + Irident Developer 2.4 (37) DXO, for want of a better expression, ‘lacks soul’, and using it makes me feel like I’m engaged more in a science project than an artistic endeavour. Whilst it is necessary to keep an eye on its defaults, which supply overly aggressive luminance noise reduction and sharpening, it is such a pleasure to edit images in that it wins for me.
ON1 PHOTO RAW 2017 VS DXO OPTICS PRO 11 ISO
The landscape photographer requires a bit of both, but for me, Capture One Pro delivers perfectly good lens correction and keystoning and I very rarely shoot at high ISO and hence have modest noise reduction requirements. This all explains why, traditionally, DXO is favoured by architectural photographers and Capture One Pro by fashion photographers.

If you want the ultimate in noise reduction and lens correction then DXO is probably the better choice if you want superb tools, local adjustments and focus on colour then Capture One Pro would be my pick. There is really not a lot to choose between these two. Discussion BEST: Capture One Pro 7.2.2 (48) + DXO Optics Pro 9.5 (46)
