Reply To: Why is everyone hung up on NOISE!?!

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Until the other day I would have said in bright light almost any sensor will deliver.  We spent last weekend in Yellowknife with a group of friends.  In mid-afternoon, with a bright blue sky, scattered cloud, and subjects standing on a snow covered frozen lake, my Rebel figured ISO 400, f/9, and 1/1250th would deliver — so pretty bright.  A friend shot the same scene from almost the same place, with a tablet.  We received a copy of the image from the tablet.  The Rebel produced a very low noise image with clear blue sky.  The tablet’s sky is full of noise and looks awful!