The only issue I have with Ben is his knocking of the G9 noise. Looking at his examples within his article and personal use of a friends G9 I wonder what are thinking when they want to shoot high ISO's. When you are shooting at a high ISO any pro worth his salt is going to expect noise. The gold bar is in reducing noise in the under 800 iso and now the manufactures are trying for 3200 and higher. It is obvious Ben is a product of only seeing and working with digital files and never seen images shot using film at higher iso's. In the old days of not too long ago anything above 400iso that looked good was a god send. Now the newest generation of the CMOS chip is allowing the higher iso's with minor noise and they are getting complaints. The example of the books taken using available light on the street, enlarged, how much? Everyone should expect noise. Does anyone expect anything else? If that had been shot using film at 1600iso or 800iso we could have played golf with the grain / noise. YOu have to have light and a lot of it to get images with no noise. A friend of mine just came back from Spain having used his G7 at 1600iso and I can tell you it was excellent, anyone of his hi ISO images could easily been published, the difference between 10 and 12 pixels is not worth the effort to try to explain, but given the choice I would take the 12mp any day, the noise would be the same for all intents and purposes, but I'd have a raw file to work with. Where do I come from, I have been digital since Photoshop 1 having just missed Barney and shooting digital since the Kodak DCS200 came out.