G11 High Iso 1600/3200 lol whee!

I grabbed a G11 today. Been playing with it but it's extremely yucky weather out. I managed to grab some mediocre shots of some birds in a parking lot at iso 80 and took a few macro iso 80-200 shots. Suffice it to say iso 80 and 100 look friggin AMAZING and look as clean as slr shots lol....but what about iso 1600?

I get it home and start cleaning and so I spend a bit of time making up some neat image profiles for raw shots processed in dpp at neutral all NR off...grrr, getting like 85% quality profiles, no good...keep going....yay 97% quality. Stick with that..... Then I take some "worst case scenario" pictures.

These pictures were illuminated only by a couple compact fluorescent bulbs. It is completely dark outside. We are talking like approx 3 x 60 watt incandescent bulbs lighting this room.

Iso 1600

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My work got me a G11 for office and work use a couple days ago, and wow, I'm impressed by its ISO1600 quality. It is definitely better than the G10 and better than any P&S I ever seen. It is a little bulky, like the G10, so I wonder if the S90 might be more for me for personal use.

cpforyou wrote in post #8927881
better than any P&S I ever seen.

Yep, by far lol. And the noise there is is MUCH less annoying/intrusive.

I played with the S90 as well, I really liked it. The front control wheel is really cool, I didn't find it to be a gimmick at all. My "friend" at pro photo supply and I ran 'round the store using it for fun tryin it out lol that and the 7d. I loved it set to EC. The rear wheel *is* a bit loose, but I don't know that it'd be a problem in real world situations. My thing was I wanted a hot shoe, so G11 it was!

I wish they had decided to drop the g10 to 10MP instead of upping it to 15MP.

Makes me kinda regret not waiting a few months for the high ISO IQ of the G11.

Although i guess i would've missed out on having a good camera none the less, even if not for low light, for the past few months.

OK.... I hope this is a setting issue or do we have to use noise reduction software on 1600 iso images?
I am getting lots of blue noise in the black areas .... it happens on all of my images shot on 1600 .... haven't even thought of going to 3200 with this .... low iso seems fine..... I am shooting raw & processing in PS CS3
I can get rid of the noise using noise reduction software .... but I thought at 1600 I would not have to do each image....

Any ideas out there?

Thanks
Larry
tpsfoto@aol.com
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1. Adobe software does a *horrid* job with the raw files from the G11 at the moment. Just awful. My iso 1600 doesn't look that awful with no NR applied at all lol. USE DPP OR SHOOT JPEG at the moment, PERIOD.
2. Jpegs look great, not quite up to what I posted but they are damn good.
3. Noise reduction in DPP works great, you can really go nuts with the chroma NR while leaving the luminance NR quite low. Works great and the images have a nice fine film-like grain to them without any annoying color blotches. The end result is all that matters and the fact is the G11 is capable of delivering far better iso 1600 than any other company camera, period, ever.

4. Yes the blue channel seems to have more intrusive noise than the other two. Weird huh!

cant wait till mine arrives!