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porphyrayesterday at 10:43 PM1 replyview on HN

The Lightroom one was processed from raw. Also, by brightening it a lot, the noisy high-ISO grain becomes more apparent. Noise is famously incompressible, so it leads to a much larger file size.


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thfuranyesterday at 10:53 PM

Brightening the image may make the iso noise easier to see, but it doesn't create it.

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