>Also, many thanks to Ruediger Neumann for the link to the German page discussing Genzo RAW utility. At the end, the main problem with image quality of the *ist D truly looks to be the bad RAW-JPEG conversion done by the Pentax software. If you do a good conversion, the pictures have nothing to envy to Canon's SLR's (and surpass them well at higher ISO settings).
>Cheers, >Dario Bonazza Now this is v-e-r-y interesting. Pentax is shooting itself in its own foot with its software. Marnie :-)