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Jim

I find the article interesting. However, rather vague to be honest. I can't comment on the "sensor noise" of the A900 since I do not have one. Though, I have to play Devil's Advocate here against the writer of the article. Was the NR on or off when taking the sample pictures with the A900? Was the NR on or off when taking the sample pictures with the Nikon D700? Same goes for the A700 and for the Canon 5D I do not believe that it has a NR on/off function (I'm not familar with it). I ask this because I have tried a Nikon D80 and D200 before when the NR on/off feature was first introduced. I saw little or no difference at the high ISO settings when it came to noise. In fact, the images always looked like they had NR applied to them regardless. I feel I know what aggressive NR looks like on a JPG since I do use Noise Ninja on occasion and feel that I can tell the difference between a NR processed file and a non processed file especially when it's done in camera. However, when NR (Noise Ninja) is applied on the file during Post Process it's more difficult to tell if it's used when used sparingly and modestly if at all. When it's applied heavily it's just so obvious. This is somewhat how I felt about the D80 & D200 regardless of settings. However, things could have improved by now with firmware updates.

The end point I'm trying to make is that it looks like the D700 and A700 has there NR "on" and the A900 has it "off." Therefore, the test results are false.

Just my 2 cents.......
NIKO

Well I never said I agreed with it all, but it is worth a read..;-)

how can you argue with the article? i could of told you the end results with out even reading.. the a900 having the highest Resolution is obviously going to take the sharpest picture, but at the some time have almost double the noise as the nikon because it has double the pixel density.

so its simple.. buy a a900 for day time, and d700 for night time, and you are a winner.. and broke

I can argue with the article because the A700 has a more dense pixel count than the A900 and yet it has less noise? See my point?