Experience with Noise Ninja ?

Does anyone have experience with Noise Ninja? Is it really better in noise reduction than Silkypix or Lightroom? Does it work with RAW files? (At a first look it seems to me not, but maybe i missed something...) Any info is welcome. Thanks in advance.

Have only used it for a week or so and went back to Neat Image that I find work better, don't know if it's better but it worked better for me.
In some photos I find Topaz Denoise to work better but it generates artefacts with "clear" parts, like clear skies and such. With detailed work it removes noise quite effectively.

Noise Ninja is better then Lightroom 2.X at least, haven't compared it with the new lightroom 2.5 update though, they have improved noise removing there. Still think Noise ninja is better.

Don't use Silkypix enough so don't know about that.

If you use the Noise Ninja Standalone, the file must be in either JPEG or uncompressed TIFF format.

For the Noise Ninja Photoshop Plug-In, it can read any file format supported by the host application. So if you are using the Noise Ninja Plug-in with Photoshop, you can work with JPEG, TIFF, RAW, PNG, PSD, BMP, etc.

Thanks. I tried Lightroom Plug-In, but it seemed to work just with JPEG files. But maybe it was my fault... I will try again.

Yeah Lightroom is a bit different then Photoshop.
Go to edit > preferences > external editing and you will find there in the tab additional external editors.
When you open the drop down menu of preset you will find Noise ninja there and you can adjust the file handling.
TIFF shouldn't be a problem most likely, don't use compression though.
Aint sure about the colour profile and bit rate, lightroom works in 16bit and pro-photospace so if you don't want to lose details, that's the one to try.

ps. I don't have noise ninja but this the way most plug-ins work in lightroom so hopefully it's the same.

Zoltan, I would recommend you give Helicon Filter a try, it was originally developed for noise reduction but has now progressed into quite a nice editor too with a nice simple logical work flow.
The noiseware aspect works very effectively I think.
I generally work with uncompressed Tiff files from CaptureOne. I believe there is a Helicon plugin for Photoshop too.

This is the best comparison I could find link

I use Noise Ninja occasionally and have always found it pretty good, I always reduce the settings though as it's usually a bit heavy handed at default.

Most of the time I find that noise reduction in ACR is very effective and NN isn't required

Simon

Thanks for all of your comments.