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Duncan, are you using the in built noise reduction on the camera? It will take dark frames automatically and subtract them from the image. That should take care of most of the noise. You have to hook you camer up to the computer and enable it. Connect the camera to the pc and open the canon utility app then "Camera settings" then I think its menu settings and enable NR and high Iso NR. Set them to auto.
But the steps I wrote above will get rid of that washed out/monochrome look. You just need to realign the colours and do a bit of contrast and brighness adjustment in the canon app, levels and curves if your using photo shop.
I share you pain though, as I'm only slightly ahead of you in the learning curve. As Chris said above, it will fall into place all of a sudden...I'm still waiting lol.
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