AI noise reduction is the secret weapon that can bring life to older cameras and ‘slow’ lenses

A low light scene taken in the blue hour at a high ISO of a river with boats on it with bright string lights. There are two circles louping in on a bar in the distance with the text 'The White Cross' with captions saying 'Before' and 'After' to show the difference in noise once AI Denoise has been applied to the image.

Anyone interested in digital photography for any length of time will have no doubt come across the term noise reduction. Digital cameras are subject to interference in their signal, referred to as ‘noise’ and usually presented when there is a weak signal or data input – such as when shooting in low light or with a high ISO.

Think of this a bit like turning up the gain knob on an amplifier; the image gets brighter, but at the expense of introducing more digital noise.