{"id":20437,"date":"2026-08-30T06:50:00","date_gmt":"2026-08-29T18:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tonywhitehead.com\/wildlight\/?p=20437"},"modified":"2026-08-30T08:15:52","modified_gmt":"2026-08-29T20:15:52","slug":"bird-portrait-panorama-stitch-dxo-pure-raw-6-files-compared-to-lightroom-files","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tonywhitehead.com\/wildlight\/archives\/20437","title":{"rendered":"Bird Portrait Panorama Stitch &#8211; DxO Pure RAW 6 Files Compared to Lightroom Files"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As suggested in my post on a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tonywhitehead.com\/wildlight\/archives\/20413\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"20413\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">panorama stitch for a bird portrait<\/a>, I ran the ISO 1600 RAW files through DxO PureRaw 6 after noticing the noise in the 1:1 detail crops. 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