Nikon D300 NR question

The camera came with Long Exposure NR and High ISO NR turned off by default. Apart from the shooting delays, is there any qualitative advantage to shooting raw with either or both of these settings turned on, if always planning to do post NR in Lightroom or CS3 (Adobe products thrown in to make it relevant here :-) )?

Long exposure NR is very useful and will be far better than doing noise reduction in post. It works by doing an extra dark frame with the shutter closed after your actual exposure and substracting this from the first real exposure. So it actually impacts the RAW data. This is very effective, but doubles the time it takes to take an image. High ISO NR probably has no effect on the RAW data, but only on jpegs, so you should probably not bother with it if you shoot RAW.

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