One further question with regards to banding noise. While working with Photron SA5 high speed cameras at work I do notice that I can cause banding when I bitshift the image data to compensate for a lack of sufficient light at extremely fast shutter speeds (1/75000 s and up). Does anyone know if Canon RAW files are oriented to the most or the least significant bits when the 14 bit data is put into 16 bit file format? Logical follow up question is whether the RAW converters differentiate between LSB and MSB orientation?