High ISO Noise.

Canon 5d Miii at ISO 4000 f8 1/3200  

With all the talk about new camera bodies and high ISO/low noise I decided to see what I could get out of my Canon 5d Miii doing everything wrong. What I mean by that is, when there are a lot of harsh shadows,  noise levels are more apparent. In this image I had to remove shadows in LRCC. And I cropped this image about 50%. So there was no reason the noise should be acceptable in the shadow areas. But to my surprise there was very minimal noise. I didn't do any noise removal or and other editing except cropping and shadow removal. Now the 5d Miii is fairly old technology in comparison to the Sony a6300 and the new Nikon d500 that's are just simply incredible in the high ISO performance area. But in years past shooting above ISO 1600 was risky for a clean image. So I find this to be very acceptable levels. Enjoy the cameras you have and understand their limitations and set your expectations accordingly.