Noise vs resolution — part 2

Bicubic sharper is probably not the best interpolation technique to average out noise. I next tried just plain bicubic.

The crop of the NEX-5 image looks like this:

The crop of the NEX-7 image looks like this:

The crop of the D3s image looks like this:

Here’s the Nikon image sharpened to match the Sony images. It’s still a lot less noisy: