Derrick at the Digital Story discusses the ongoing debate between the noise levels of the new XTi (400D) and the older XT (350D.)

But I started hearing little comments such as, "Well, you know that the XTi is a lot noisier than the XT, right?" Actually, no I didn't. I ignored the first few remarks, but then had to do a little research to get to the bottom of this. Why? Well the images I was shooting looked pretty good, and I would have been hard-pressed to tell the difference between RAW files shot with the XT and the XTi. (Now compared to the 5D is another matter...)

Visit Derrick's site to read the rest of this article. If you are a recent buyer of the XTi then there is nothing to fear. [ more ]