Is the AI noise reduction on Lightroom 2023 any good?

I just recently learned about this and wow!! I'm legit blown away!

I shoot with a Nikon D500. Love it but realize camera tech has greatly advanced (full frame, mirrorless...).

Was recently shooting a little metal show at a bar so NO good lighting.. Another photog was there and we were discussing noise and he brought up how he shoots (in this situation) at an ISO over 10000 and then uses LR AI Denoise. He showed me some past results and was shocked!

Decided to try it myself: Took lots of shots at ISO 8000 or 10000 so I can still keep my shutter at around 1/250.

Updated LR (I hadn't updated in many months). Edited photos and was horrified at how much noise they had, as expected.

But then I decided to try the new Denoise feature and my brain nearly exploded at how well the feature eliminated most noise without making the pic look like a water color painting!!

I'm STILL in shock to be honest..

The feature DOES have a flaw though. I only apply Denoise to photos I've rated 5*. The best I took. So I have the film strip only display Rated photos. However, when you apply Denoise, it always seems to change the film strip back to No Filter.

A bit annoying but other than that, an amazing feature!

Too bad it only works with DNG Raw Files and not JPG.

If you decrase the precentace, will the image remain more natural? I mean at 70% it looks too animated for my taste

Is there anyway you can have a single key shortcut created for "Ctrl + Alt + Shift + E" ?

Will this denoise work on lightroom cloud?

Very nice explanation of the new Lightroom features. Much appreciated.

Awesome, very useful as always, thank you so much for your video

I love how you say in the beginning you never shoot in that high of an ISO.
Meanwhile im a nightlife/festival photographer and usually always use those numbers maybe even higher.

Hi, you are late compared to the crowd. You review is déjà vu, sorry, nothing original in it. Your composition or processing videos are far more better and bring value.

Wow, I look forward to trying all those new things in LR!! Thank you for showing them!

Brilliant demo and explanation Serge. Merci tellement

Wow, I am impressed. I hate the new layout introduced so I still use the older layout from a few years ago, but this Noise-reduction looks amazing. Do you know if I cna get he old style in the newer update? Also, the images look great, do you make a living off taking pictures like this?

Hi, Serge. I'm fan of you since 2014. I came back here after long time! Thank you for keep making such useful videos. :)