High Resolution, Adobe Super resolution and Sony Pixel Shift - Which Is the Best?

Today we are going to take a look at a new feature recently introduced by Adobe called super-resolution and aimed at intelligently increasing the size of an image using AI algorithms.

This new feature already received quite a bit of coverage from other channels online with varying results (based on what each user was comparing to). We have our own take and we decided to perform somewhat of a different set of testings.

In order to test the new Adobe super-resolution feature, we’re going to compare the results to another option that we can produce in-camera on our Sony A7R IV called pixel shift (it is only partially in-camera as we do need the Sony Imaging Edge software to combine the images). Somewhat similar options are also available on some Fujifilm, Panasonic, and Olympus cameras. Our goal here is to test the image quality and file size against a simple upscale and sharpening process in Photoshop.

You can read the full article on LensVid.com:
https://lensvid.com/lensvid-exclusive...

A link to download the full-size files (caution - these are huge files):
https://www.dropbox.com/sh/6wme9p9l78...

Video chapters (updated soon):
00:00 - Intro
01:00 - Adobe super-resolution
01:35 - Sony Pixel shift
02:55 - Creating super-resolution in Camera Raw
04:16 - Comparing images
08:04 - Results
08:46 - Conclusion

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