There sems to be some confusion on noise lately the images Ive seen supplied by nikon with the d3 at 6400iso have large amounts of noise but this normal ,what a lot have people have ignored is the exif data the shots taken are indoor with poor lighting /no flash and hand held!
The shadow detail is a vast improvment also ,this means the raw data is going to much nicer to work with and pull images out of the mud.
I cant wait to be able to use my camera without a tripod in poor light situations i get this kind of noise at night at 200 iso with long exposures on my ageing d70s.
Remember where we were 10yrs ago ,I wouldnt have bought digital if hell was freezing over and now the last film i shot was on a retro camera of mine..
Cant wait to see whats around the next corner in the digital era
