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MRS C L5CBE
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November 13, 2021
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Retrospectively removing camera setting from a RAW image

  • November 13, 2021
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Good evening all from the UK.

I appreciate this may be more of a question for my camera manufacturer which is Canon, but Im wondering if its possible to remove or alter a camera setting which in this case was "High ISO Noise Reduction" from the captured RAW image within camera RAW in Adobe? 

 

I mistakenly left this setting on whilst taking some long exposre images of the Milky Way and it has absoluely ruined them making them a complete right off. That is unless there is a way to somehow remove this setting from within the metadata of the RAW file ?

 

Any help would be greatly appreciated !

 

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MRS C L5CBEAuthor
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November 13, 2021

Well, by way of an update, Ive just finished a live chat with Canon to see if it is possible to remove the effects of such a setting from the RAW file, ut unfortunately it isnt once the image is taken. Such a shame as it now means my 200+ tracked images of the Milky Way and the Orion constellation are now useless. Ive tried to reduce the effects of "High ISO Noise Reduction" in both Photoshop and LRC but the noise reduction is just too extreme. A hard lesson learnt and I hope this helps someone avoid the same misake as I made in the future. Absolutely gutted !!

TheDigitalDog
TheDigitalDog
Inspiring
November 13, 2021

Raw is raw, but the data is affected by exposure and ISO (and perhaps proprietary camera settings); you can't unbake that. 

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