Start with DxO test first. They went to town tuning their software in the labs to each specific camera they support and in particular, the high-noise ISO recovery. It runs circles around the rest, IMO – in both speed, low-artifacting, and results. That said, I still very often follow my PureRaw Raw>DNG processing with a quick run through Topaz DeNoise and sometimes Sharpen AI. But if I had to give up two – I would still vote for PureRaw.
If you can find some older (often VERY much older) RAW files that you thought had a lot going for them EXCEPT you had inadvertently shot them in too high ISO and the noise was too high, just see if PureRaw can bring them back to life. For me, and tons of others, it truly is a big game changer in photoware.
yes I do but we’re buying a house and have no spare money.
I really do but we’re buying a house so that’s got all my money tied up for the near and mid term future. Been spending all my free time and money on that for the last two-three months