NEF(RAW) Noise.

What camera mate?
 
Also have you moved the fill light sliders considerably in ACR or Lightroom to rescue an underexposed pic as this will impact on the IQ?
 
By the look of the orange peel effect this looks like it was done in LR3 or CS5 (also applies to ACR in Elements 9).

The effect of the sharpening and noise controls were drastically changed in the latest version due to the changes in the demosaicing .

You need to back of the detail slider a lot even the standard 25 is to much in some cases.

You could try my way which is to set the detail to 10 then holding down the Alt key adjust the sharpening slider till it looks fairly sharp then still holding the Alt key dowm adjust (increase) the radius to get the edges a little sharp.

Then finally go back to the detail slider and increase it as much as you can before the orange peel effect starts to show.

Also sometimes increasing the luminance slider in noise sometimes helps, in previous versions some noise reduction was automaticly added without you knowing it, now it is not.

This works for me, so you may want to try it.:)
 
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Dave in Wales said:
D7000, and the RAW file is untouched, no sliders moved.

D in W
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Something wrong there. That's noisier than the 12800 iso shot I posted on the thread Lynton started in the talk photography forum.
 
The23rdman said:
Something wrong there. That's noisier than the 12800 iso shot I posted on the thread Lynton started in the talk photography forum.
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I think you are right, that's how the NEF file appears in PSE9, in ViewNX it looks veeeery smooth.

D in W
 
Looks like over-sharpening to me. Have you zeroed all the sliders in Lightroom/whatever software you're using? The default camera profiles apply some sharpening.
 
nickshek said:
Looks like over-sharpening to me. Have you zeroed all the sliders in Lightroom/whatever software you're using? The default camera profiles apply some sharpening.
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Yes, it's oversharpening.

Default camera profile settings were wrong.

TA...!

D in W
 
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