Jim ... love the colors ... purrrrdy
JamesM ... there's a trick to high ISO on the Canon's, at least up to 12800, 25600 still sucks LOL
when pushing it up there, only shoot JPG ... RAWs are ugly
under your custom functions there is one that says something like (going from memory here) high ISO noise reduction = strong ... this applies in camera noise reduction only to your JPGs and is a life saver!!
I live on this on my 50D's and a new assistant showed up with a 5DMII Saturday with a f/4 lens (he thought 400mm was better than a 200mm f/2.8 for agility ... boy, did I learn him) anyway, on my 50D's I am always shooting ISO 6400 to 12800 on JPG ... just discovered LR3 can reduce enough noise on the 12800's that they are presentable ... but still like to stay at 6400 if I can