7D High ISO Examples - No Noise Reduction

ChasWG wrote in post #9266389
Why did I read this thread???!!!!!

Damn you snyderman!! Damn all of you who own the 7D!!!!

I need to go and talk to my wife now, this won't be good...

Chas:

I know ... this place can be rough on the wallet and savings account!

Trying to convince myself this is the LAST upgrade to made for quite some time. In all seriousness, getting better on what I have is the area of focus for 2010.

dave

ChasWG wrote in post #9266389
Why did I read this thread???!!!!!

Damn you snyderman!! Damn all of you who own the 7D!!!!

I need to go and talk to my wife now, this won't be good...

hahahahahahah...that's awesome. I was lucky and didn't have to do much convincing. In fact my wife went with me to buy the camera (and a 70-200 f/2.8 L IS). I couldn't believe it.

I suggest you turn on rear focus and use the shutter for firing only. That is a quick and easy way to freeze your focus in crowds without missing a step

I took a few RAW test shots with the 7D in BestBuy. When I opened them with DPP I found that the "default" NR setting was quite high, which made them soft/blurry. Moving the sliders down to zero made them look like my 40D. Are these truely shot with no NR or no additional NR than the default settings at high ISO?