

Most people tend to learn a program and stick with it, with Adobe being the 800-pound gorilla in this particular space. Makes a huge difference on the Sony FE 70-200mm f4 (borrowing to test native focus with my A7 III). However, the firm has also recognised a fundamental reality of the imaging software market. That DxO Lens Sharpness tool is incredibly powerful. In particular, its latest AI-based DeepPRIME denoising, introduced in PhotoLab 4, can lay a real claim to being one of the best currently available. Along the way, DxO has also developed some class-leading demosaicing and noise reduction technologies.

Since then, the firm has built up a vast database of lens/camera profiles, while the software itself has morphed into a fully-fledged raw converter, DxO PhotoLab. These two outings run one right after the other, so most people who come for one want to. It was the first to fully understand and implement the concept of profiled lens aberration corrections with its original Optics Pro software, which it introduced way back in 2004. Nikon vs Canon vs Sony Full-Frame Mirrorless Mirrorless vs DSLR. French software company DxO has a long and distinguished history in digital imaging.
