The EXIF is embedded in the image, I'm hiding nothing here, I have an addon - right click option in Firefox - that allows me to view the EXIF of any image I right click on, it seems to work for me when I right click on the image above. Whatever app/method you are using I'm not sure, but the EXIF is there.
However, as I am not sure what app you're using to attempt to view EXIF data, here's the original image as it appears in my gallery. Simply hover over the top right of the image and you should see something as in the screenshot below.
http://www.reflectingme.com/img/v3/p393738416.jpg
As for noise reduction; I used the in-camera noise filtering, plus LR noise reduction as far as I can remember.
I'm not getting into any fights I'm afraid, I don't
start threads that bash any other camera, that's not what the site is about - there's far too many Canikon fanboys on here on times already. You made reference to, and compared the ISO performance on the D40 to be better than
any Olympus, that's what I felt needed to be corrected. I don't know the D300, and wouldn't buy one (
I'd buy a D700 though if I had the money!) so to make such challenges is a tad naive. Making challenges like that are a waste of time, because there are facets of each system that are better than others... each to their own.
Yes, though TP is managed wonderfully well, and is an awesome resource for photographers (
and I've been a member here a long time), at times it is often very cliquey and full of Canikonites who bash anything but Canikons. The site is about photography, not bashing anything but your own camera make/model. People come here seeking information and guidance, very often they are new to photography. Seeing posts such as yours would mislead them into thinking any Olympus kit was not worth looking at, when - just as it would be for every other make/model... it is. Your 1st post above was inaccurate and misleading... so I chose to defend Olympus and correct what you stated (
with evidence).
So, your comment in the first post in this thread;
One great thing is how clean images are upto ISO1600 this is proberly were it beat the Olympus E-420 or infact any other Olympus DSLR.
... was misleading, not factual, and 100% wrong, hence my responses in this thread.
Thus your comment;
But while you came with a "somebody is wrong on the internet" attitude & sounding like Zeus has given you the holy task of defending the honour of Olympus.
... did indeed require defending, hence my post here.
As a minority camera system owner, I don't mind being on the end of mickey takes... that's part of the fun of being on here and I will always join in the fun and banter (
ask FitP for example 
). However, regarding Olympus kit and in the interests of accuracy, I will always correct those who by their actions and posts, show they know less about what they are posting about, than they actually do know.
Now... get out there and take some shots yeah...
