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Brian, you are a baby, no costructive discussion at all with you, keep your Internet stupid in the way you wish: the only you can.

only ISO400 if you select ***AUTO ISO*** in manual mode. There is a bit of contradiction between manual mode & auto ISO, (similar to AEB not possible in M).

I actually find having to choose between either a specific setting (for each of 3 exposure settings: aperture, shutter & ISO) or leave all or smome of them completely open-ended under the mercy of the camera’s metering in the different modes (auto, aperture priority, shutter priority, manual), I find that too stupid sticking to old PSAM traditions that were established when technology was so limited & limiting. I mean today’s camera processors should be more than able to handle user-selectable ranges (w/ minimum and maximum) for each of the 3 exposure settings. For example if you want to shoot a handheld landscape, you just need f=8 or f=11 for best results, you don’t need a specific shutter speed, just want it to be no slower than 1/125, you don’t need a specific ISO, just want it to be no higher than ISO800. There is no way to tell a modern camera to not go beyond 1/125 & ISO800 with f8 in Av mode. Manual mode wouldn’t help either to express your relative flexibility WRT shutter & ISO.

Check this out:
http://forums.dpreview.com/forums/read.asp?forum=1032&message=33995233

OK they are speaking about banding noise and what I have is more pattern noise.
But this is all about (more information from) shadows areas and low DR which gives theese noise artefacts.