Noise Noice Dirty Noice - 400D or 40D

I've been out in Canada for the last couple of week and been snapping away. Its been pretty dark, Cloudy Rainy out there, most of the time i was have to shoot a fast speeds, being on a boat so i had to bring the ISO up to 400 to get any decent sort of lighting.

When i'm looking at the shots at 100% on Adobe Raw there seams to be so my noise. I can reduce it a little in pp but i loose the sharpness, to be honest i never really expected to see noise at 400iso.

My question is, if i upgrade to the 40D will the noise at high iso's be significantly less than the 400D. I was contimplating the 5D but i would have to save for the rest of my life.

With the 40D I get some chromanoise at 400ISO in less than perfect light. With good light no problem. I think we start to see the limit of the 1.6X sensor. I was hoping canon stay with 8mp but with the 40D fonction.

Do you "expose to the right" if you don't then I suggest you do - this should help you somewhat.

Never really had any problems at ISO 400 on a 20D which has very simular noise to the 400D

http://www.luminous-landscape.com/tutorial​s/expose-right.shtml

Here's a link about exposing to the right that may help.

Dellboy wrote in post #4011910
Do you "expose to the right" if you don't then I suggest you do - this should help you somewhat.

Never really had any problems at ISO 400 on a 20D which has very simular noise to the 400D

OK, I've read the article, but surely the best thing is to shoot at 200 ISO and expsose to the centre, rather than 400 ISO and expose to the right with the same AV/TV isn't it?

at ISO 400 I doubt the noise will be a problem...with either camera...

post...so i can read later

It also depends on the content of the picture.
If it is a polar bear on an ice floe most of the histogram
would properly be far right on the scale.
But in any case if you have a histogram with a large blank space
on the right side of the scale then you should change exposure
to move the info to the right.
The bottom line is digital post processing can make a light picture darker
with less noise than it can make a dark picture lighter.