I keep hearing what a great job the Photo Ninja does but this was not my experience when I tested them on the same file.
Can you Ninja advocates post some examples? Ideally they should include areas of sky (where the false detail that the PN creates is more evident) and darker shadows (where the extra noise it introduces is more obvious). A triad comparison of LR vs CO vs PN would be great.
PS. The only place where I found PN to be truly superior was in highlight recovery
PPS. In LR the Provia simulation would be preferred