How do the new high ISO settings hold up in the edit?

Having seen the quality on offer from unedited images at the highest ISO settings (See Here) we now get a chance to see how the images hold up during the editing process. Both of the pictures below have had the same noise reduction techniques performed on them and also the same amount of sharpening on the facial features.

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Looking closely at the larger images it hard to make out any real noise and even the sharpened areas don’t show any real degradation. Though some tonal correction is required, from a perspective of low light photography, both of the cameras (top 400D ISO1600, bottom 40D ISO3200) return excellent pictures that with a little editing trickery are worthy of printing and framing.
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