Sorry for the late reply, I wanted to be able to sit down and write something more than “yeah!”. ![]()
All of them are usually. Though, different types of photography may address them in different ways (astrophotography vs. photojournalism for instance).
From a processing perspective I tend to break noise down into two main groups, and will approach each of them differently.
- Chroma noise
- Luminance noise
(This is not counting things like hot pixels or spurious noise that I think an impulse filter usually handles.)
Cambridge in Colour has a good page on this with a nice example image:

Image noise
That they then show as composed of those two primary components, Chroma and Luminance noise:

Chroma noise

Luminance noise
The splotches from the Chroma noise are the type of noise that I personally tend to aggressively attempt to remove.
The luminance noise usually reminds me more of film grain, so I tend to tolerate it better. (I even have a scan of film grain that I very often use over my images to add some ‘structure’ back: relevant pixls article.)
Unless it’s really, really distracting I’ll usually just leave luminance alone.