Canon eos 5D MkII Noise at 3200

The main reason i have bought the new 5D Mk11 and not another 5D is i would like to be able to use IS0 6400 in dark churches with my 24-105 f4. I do not like changing lenses to much during weddings as you miss images. I have been testing the new 5D against the old 5D to see what noise is present and how bad it gets. I have not published the results as it is early days for the camera and i would like to show you the results from a wedding i will photograph at the end of january.

I have found that the old 5D was as good as i have always thought and the new 5D Mk11 is pretty much the same in terms of noise BUT............this will suprise you......the old 5D is a better type of noise that does not effect your images. I know this may be a shock to some people but i have processed the images through lightroom with the same settings on the same compact flash cards with the same 70-200 f2.8 lens set at 135mm. I can't beleive it but the ISO 6400 raw files are very noisy and i think un useable for my work........shock horror.

The reason i am shocked is because there has been allot of hype about this camera and i expected the results at ISO 6400 to be like the ISO 1600 on the old 5D. Everyone seems to talk about a 2 stop improvement over the old 5D but its not true. The only time i could use ISO 6400 is with black and white images. At 3200 the two cameras are the same and you would have allot of trouble telling the cameras apart.

rb