Will increasing the saturation setting on a digital camera increase the color intensity of chroma-noise...?

Question

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When chroma noise appears at high ISOs or long exposures, will increasing the image saturation setting in the camera increase the intensity of the colors in the noise OR will the intensity of the color in the noise be the same regardless of the saturation setting? I realze that the AMOUNT of chroma noise will be unaffected by the saturation setting. I'm only talking specifically about the color intensity of the noise itself.

The idea being to increase signal-to-noise which can later be cleaned up in Photoshop.

Answer 1

Since color saturation settings actually increase the amplification of color itself, your noise will increase also.....

You might want to increase the brightness or open your lens if you own an SLR camera.

The reason for this is that the brightness control lifts the black level above the noise level....NOISE is always prevalent in low voltage levels, not in higher levels.

This may alleviate the noise you see in your color....Try it.

Answer 2

depends by your camera sensor ..a CCD or a CMOS + the camera's software filters ... best for you : do some tests !

Answer 3

I think so.