I am going to show another example. This time using Topaz Denoise AI Clear. There are two complimentary programs by Topaz: Sharpen AI and Denoise AI. Some images work better with one and others work better with the other package. I find that I try them both and see which works better.

First picture is a heavy crop of a private plane flying overhead. Don't worry about the propeller. I used electronic shutter and it didn't work so well on the propeller.

Then look at the second image. Topaz Denoise AI has two modes. Denoise AI is for noisy images, which this one was not. And the other is called DeNoise AI Clear which has much weaker noise reduction, but instead tries to correct the image. In this case, Denoise AI Clear was the winner.

And just think. We are only on the first generation of the AI products. Where will this go next??? AI processing is trying to figure out what the image was supposed to look like and to make corrections to the image such that you get much better results than you could have without it.

As I think about where this might be going, I think about all the various lens distortions that we can encounter: coma, astigmatism, CA, ... . What if all these distortions could be corrected in post processing? What about if it can allow some cheap so so lens to have its images come out looking like it was some very expensive lens? I think this is where it is going. Of course, expensive lenses may have much wider apertures and mechanically operate much faster. And post processing is not going to give your more frames per second. But it certainly can improve what you do capture.