I also have a question regarding noise, specifically on the Dragon. We have shot with this camera before and had no problems, it then got the upgrade to the Dragon and we took it out for a run, and found the RAW footage had tons of noise, especially in the darker scenes. Though, some of the shots didn't have noise at all, mainly the daylight scenes, but some of the daylight scenes did have noise as well. My assistant and I can't think of anything we did differently from previous shoots, apart from use the Dragon, so we're wondering what could cause this amount of noise to be in the image.
Should also note that we had a split on the day which is pretty nice and we, nor the director or anyone notice noise levels like this, it looks nice on all the monitors.
exposed for 800iso
Noise (dark) - http://postimg.org/image/5d6c03of3/(obviously far more noticeable when played)
Clean (day) - http://postimg.org/image/g4svcdc69/ Would love to hear any possible ideas. Is it simply just too dark? Though I've shot things this dark before pre Dragon and not had an issue.
It's been suggested that perhaps we didn't wait for the Dragon to get to temperature before shooting, though I don't think this likely as we'd frame up and light, rehearse, do multiple takes etc.