Added Noiseware plug-in to Photoshop - Can Lightroom do the same?

Question

I just bought a new Canon 7D camera which gives the option for high ISO up to 64000. Even at 800 ISO, this camera seems to be giving me plenty of visible noise as I zoom in to the image in Lightroom. I've purchased the plug-in for Photoshop called Noiseware Pro which seems to really do the trick, smoothing out noise and maintaining detail.
The question I have is: Noiseware has controls for luminescence and others that look like the same controls that are available in Lightroom. Noiseware seems to give the right setting automatically based on the image, at least gives a good starting point, but my question: is is possible to achieve the same results in Lightroom? I'm thinking it is, but it also seems to require more fiddling than I can muster where Noiseware simply hits the mark and I'm good to go.

Answer 1

I'm the senior product consultant and testing engineer for Imagenomic, the creators of Noiseware and after reading your post, I thought I would interject a few tidbits of wisdom for you.
Although Noiseware has sliders named similar to Lightroom, the actual usage varies on image content. Each image has its own unique noise signature and so in essence, Noiseware's slider implementation takes this into effect.
As to achieving the same results in Lightroom, most any of the noise reduction programs, especially the top commercial ones, will allow a much more dynamic range of control and hence better results. Even out of the box default controls will usually whip LR with major tweaking. So far the LR3 beta hasn't impressed me any on its color reduction  (though it does differ from V2) and the odd exclusion of luma control is a flag to me as the intermixing of the two values, luma and chroma, is where the issues arise within the noise reduction world. The jury is still out on the end results at the final release though.
Adobe has decided not to give plugin developers a true path into the 'non-destructive editing' that is one of Lightroom's major marketing hypes so we're all stuck with outputting to a separate file first which adds another image and step to the workflow process. Ideally, plugins would fit into the develop module tabs and allow realtime preview of the results. As it is now, we must use a totally standalone executable (PC) or app (Mac) to achieve functionality which defeats the 'non-destructive editing' workflow.
Also, as a last note, you can run the Noiseware plugin through Photoshop from within Lightroom using droplets. The droplets are available here as well as a video tutorial showing how to implement them:
http://www.imagenomic.com/actionbook.aspx
Regards,
George