How do you deal with noise?

[soupdragon]

Tony,

Something must be going seriously wrong here, either your technique or you have faulty kit. No way should you be seeing noise on a well exposed, not too heavily cropped ISO 800 file.

I have the original 1dx and don't use any NR at 800, and I'm pretty fussy on IQ.

Might be worth starting your own thread with examples to get this sorted

Mike

I don't think there is anything wrong with my camera it looks the same as any other 1dx2 at iso 1600.
I can see the noise though and I personally don't like it.
It's the way I am.