This weeks “Sunday Morning Photographer” column from Mike Johnston urges you to feel the noise (I know, bad Slade reference).

“It’s that everybody always seems to be talking about noise. Every time I log on to a forum somewhere, people are deeply concerned about it. Such-and-such a camera has noise. Noise at ISO 3200. Noisy sensor. Too much noise. I hear more noise about noise than I do about the national debt. What in the world…? Noise has got to be the biggest non-problem in all of digital photography. First of all, complaining about noise in pictures is like complaining that you can see brushstrokes in paintings at the museum. It’s just a hallmark of the technique; it’s not something to decry, it’s something to enjoy.”

Website: The Sunday Morning Photographer: “Nothing About Noise”