Please don't mistake a shot of an unmade bed for a serious test shot! I just wanted to get a few more eyes on this, and I thank you all for taking the time to look. (Nice one, btw, Clover13!)
Wasn't expecting to see a drastic difference one way or the other, I just wanted to double check that I wasn't imagining anything. I didn't see a significant difference in the noise, and that's what I wanted to get feedback on. The first shot is a Canon T2i, second shot is a Nikon D70, both unprocessed RAW shots exported to JPEG through Lightroom. Not the best test, of course, but enough to confirm (for me) that the processing in the T2i is way too noisy, if the D70 can keep up with it.