K5 Noise reduction

I bought a K5 last weekend and have spent this week trawling the internet for additional useful info re it's use.
I found this on the internet:

Six settings are available for high ISO noise reduction: off, low, medium, high, auto, and custom. The custom setting allows the user to manually specify noise reduction settings for each ISO individually. This is a helpful feature, ideal for for balancing the strong effect of this camera’s noise reduction algorithm, against the tendency to lose sharpness with reduction enabled. We recommend medium settings up to ISO 200, and high for 400 and above.

On my K10 I turned off the noise reduction and used Noiseware SE to reduce/remove noise during post processing.

Would you advise the same approach with the K5

Ta,
Chris

I normally should RAW anyone Chris but just in case I personally have NR turned off for when I might use .JPG. I much prefer to decide for myself how it's applied. To be honest with the K5 NR isn't something you'll need to think about much anyway unless you're very high in the iso range, much improved from the K10

Simon

Yes.

Much better to do all image processing on the computer, assuming you have appropriate software.

Why? Because a computer is more powerful, and can store much bigger and more complex software than a camera can.

G

And what happened in the days of film, I wonder? Film, does anybody remember that?

In the days of film you either bought into the default setting (Colour print, ISO200) or you chose the film speed (grain, i.e., noise) the type (colour print, colour slide, black and white), the developer (style of result) and the printing paper as we do now.

You could invest little knowledge, or a great depth of knowledge.

Pretty much the same as for digital really.

Another one for do it in post, processes in camera slow the camera right down...

Thank you everyone.
I posed the question only because of the comment on the web site.

If I was taking only a couple of shots I'd use RAW and reduce/remove the noise during post processing, however when I attend a watersports event I can have up to 300 or 400 photos to batch process using Noiseware SE

I was curious to see if the K5 noise reduction could save me the time of post processing noise - I've decided anyway to continue to use Noiseware which works well for me.

As for film - I remember it well - pushing my Ilford 125 or 400 ISA in developing to higher ISA's; using different tempertures to control grain etc. However I dont use film anymore, I'm all digital and wont be going back.
Ta
Chris

I keep it at auto and do "RAW lightest" or "JPEG light" noise reduction(when needed) in Topaz DeNoise in Photoshop.
The result is sharp and noise free images up to 8000 or 10,000 ISO.