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I'm still looking through the details now. This is a major update from the previous version which I use.

Biggest feature to me looks like they have added support for CUDA and multi-CPU processing for more performance, although I didn't find the old version to be too slow anyway (like Topaz DeNoise). Doesn't seem to be any claim for better image quality output, other than a new profiling approach which might help.

Upgrade pricing for existing users, I'll need to log in when I get home to find out how that compares.

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Canon DSLRs: 7D, 5D2, 1D, 600D, 450D full spectrum, 300D IR mod
Lenses: EF 35/2, 50/1.8, 85/1.8, 135/2+SF, 28-80 V, 70-300L, 100-400L, TS-E 24/3.5L, MP-E 65, EF-S 15-85 IS
3rd party: Zeiss 2/50 makro, Samyang 8mm fisheye, Sigma 150 macro, 120-300 f/2.8 OS, Celestron 1325/13
Tinies: Sony HX9V.

I quickly tried the demo and it appeared to show quite a noticeable speed improvement, so I jumped in and bought the whole package. I had the Pro+ version of the 6.x, and I went for the discounted upgrade to v7 of the standalone and plugin versions. These can be purchased separately or together, with the plugin suited to "as required" use from photoshop, while the stand alone is more useful for batch processing.

I had a poke through the options, and found it was using 4 CPUs by default. I'm on a Q6600 so I had up to 4 cores available. Definitely a noticeable improvement over the previous version! The option menu lets you run a benchmark on the various combinations of CPU cores and GPU for processing. This is what mine came out with:



Interesting that 3 cores gave maximum throughput, with or without GPU chipping in. And there, the GPU gave a huge boost.

The interface has been boosted in display options now. I really need to do screenshots some time for this, as it will be a case of a picture being worth a thousand words. Suffice to say for now it gives some interesting rendering of noise components which may help tune noise filtering.

Will write more as I play with it.

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Canon DSLRs: 7D, 5D2, 1D, 600D, 450D full spectrum, 300D IR mod
Lenses: EF 35/2, 50/1.8, 85/1.8, 135/2+SF, 28-80 V, 70-300L, 100-400L, TS-E 24/3.5L, MP-E 65, EF-S 15-85 IS
3rd party: Zeiss 2/50 makro, Samyang 8mm fisheye, Sigma 150 macro, 120-300 f/2.8 OS, Celestron 1325/13
Tinies: Sony HX9V.

thanks popo.. trying to upgrade now but I cant log in to get the discount

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Canon 7D + 50D + EF 100-400mm f/4.5-5.6L IS USM + EF 24-105mm f/4L IS USM + EF 100mm f/2.8L Macro IS USM
Pelican // Black Rapid // Think Tank // Manfrotto // Garmin

Reflections On Canadian Wildlife
My Flickr

Login is the same as your registration details. Only thing I'd note is be careful windows doesn't pick up an extra space when you cut&paste.

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Canon DSLRs: 7D, 5D2, 1D, 600D, 450D full spectrum, 300D IR mod
Lenses: EF 35/2, 50/1.8, 85/1.8, 135/2+SF, 28-80 V, 70-300L, 100-400L, TS-E 24/3.5L, MP-E 65, EF-S 15-85 IS
3rd party: Zeiss 2/50 makro, Samyang 8mm fisheye, Sigma 150 macro, 120-300 f/2.8 OS, Celestron 1325/13
Tinies: Sony HX9V.

thanks popo... finally got it.. only $10.00 canadian for the upgrade... cant go wrong with that!

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Canon 7D + 50D + EF 100-400mm f/4.5-5.6L IS USM + EF 24-105mm f/4L IS USM + EF 100mm f/2.8L Macro IS USM
Pelican // Black Rapid // Think Tank // Manfrotto // Garmin

Reflections On Canadian Wildlife
My Flickr

That's a lot less than mine, but then again I guess it depends on which version(s) you're going from and to.

Haven't played about with it any more since yesterday...

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Canon DSLRs: 7D, 5D2, 1D, 600D, 450D full spectrum, 300D IR mod
Lenses: EF 35/2, 50/1.8, 85/1.8, 135/2+SF, 28-80 V, 70-300L, 100-400L, TS-E 24/3.5L, MP-E 65, EF-S 15-85 IS
3rd party: Zeiss 2/50 makro, Samyang 8mm fisheye, Sigma 150 macro, 120-300 f/2.8 OS, Celestron 1325/13
Tinies: Sony HX9V.

I got the 64 bit pro version... same as before.

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Canon 7D + 50D + EF 100-400mm f/4.5-5.6L IS USM + EF 24-105mm f/4L IS USM + EF 100mm f/2.8L Macro IS USM
Pelican // Black Rapid // Think Tank // Manfrotto // Garmin

Reflections On Canadian Wildlife
My Flickr

For me it was equivalent to US$50 to go from 6.x Pro+ to 7 standalone + plugin pro versions, with v6 purchased long before the "recent purchase" discount period.

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Canon DSLRs: 7D, 5D2, 1D, 600D, 450D full spectrum, 300D IR mod
Lenses: EF 35/2, 50/1.8, 85/1.8, 135/2+SF, 28-80 V, 70-300L, 100-400L, TS-E 24/3.5L, MP-E 65, EF-S 15-85 IS
3rd party: Zeiss 2/50 makro, Samyang 8mm fisheye, Sigma 150 macro, 120-300 f/2.8 OS, Celestron 1325/13
Tinies: Sony HX9V.

I got the recent purchase price seeing my computer had a fatal crash in december and I lost all my purchase and registration info so I had to buy it again after a long and heated discussion with them.

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Canon 7D + 50D + EF 100-400mm f/4.5-5.6L IS USM + EF 24-105mm f/4L IS USM + EF 100mm f/2.8L Macro IS USM
Pelican // Black Rapid // Think Tank // Manfrotto // Garmin

Reflections On Canadian Wildlife
My Flickr

I thought it was fast on my old system...



That's with a Core i7-2600K (due to quirk of my mobo bios the turbo doesn't go above 3.5 GHz regardless how few cores are active) and a 560 Ti factory OC.

The CPU benchmark scores dropped significantly when I was running other background tasks but the GPU remained as fast.

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Canon DSLRs: 7D, 5D2, 1D, 600D, 450D full spectrum, 300D IR mod
Lenses: EF 35/2, 50/1.8, 85/1.8, 135/2+SF, 28-80 V, 70-300L, 100-400L, TS-E 24/3.5L, MP-E 65, EF-S 15-85 IS
3rd party: Zeiss 2/50 makro, Samyang 8mm fisheye, Sigma 150 macro, 120-300 f/2.8 OS, Celestron 1325/13
Tinies: Sony HX9V.

Wow, that's much faster than my E6600 (dual core 2.4GHz). It'd be like your old system with 2 cores only 2.8 MP/sec (no CUDA with ATI).