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I agree. I made extensive comparisons with and without any ACR sharpening and noise reduction. I'm not so much challenging as asking for help in finding the best techniques and workflow. It could be that I'm using Neat Image at less than optimum settings; however, I've tried making my own calibratio...

For the G9 at ISO 800, Thomas Niemann (of PTLens fame) has suggested the following settings in ACR Details page for processing RAW images: Sharpening amount=60 radius = 0.8 detail = 30 masking = 0 Noise reduction luminance = 80 color = 100 I've tested Tom's settings against my previous thinking (and...

Thanks for the quick reply and confirmations. I don't recommend using the G7 RAW profiles for the G9. The G7 and G9 sensors are physically different. Also, G7 RAW is a "hack" -- not to say that G7 RAW is poor quality, just that it is almost certainly different from the G9. In manufacturing...

A number of us have the Canon G9 and are attempting to deal with the noise at the higher ISOs. I've written about one set of experiments on my blog, http://lightdescription.blogspot.com, but there remains much to be learned. Why not make a joint effort? Please don't jump in with "... sensor too...