Comment Re:funny and ironic (Score 1) 446
Pretty much, and partly the reason I am shooting with a 5D now. I absolutely have no choice but to shoot at 3200 at some dog show events, and those images need to be clean and the action properly frozen. The XSi I used as my stepping stone into SLR's maxed out at 1600 and was noisy as hell. The 50D I had after that, when expanded, topped at 6400 IIRC but 1600 was pretty much tops for usable photos. There was some nasty banding I could not cleanup at 3200. So, in support of your argument, yes...there are times when the camera you shoot with will matter, but at the same time I tend to lean on the "It's the photographer, not the equipment" side of the camp more or less.