>> The 2.5" LCD and the capability to use continuous AF at you leisure >> re-position the DS2 over the DL, which had surpassed the DS in these >> respects. This is enough a reason for making it. > Nice little update I'd say. Just like "N" for MZ-5 :-)
I wonder if there might possibly be some internal electronics updating, too. After all, dpreview.com fussed so much about the JPG quality of both the D and the DS, right? "While there isn't a noticeable resolution advantage shooting RAW the final image output is certainly sharper than JPEG from the camera. This is interesting as one thing we have observed with *ist D JPEG's straight from the camera is their softness." "Because of its target market the *ist DS is likely to be used mostly by people shooting JPEG, as we've demonstrated on earlier pages of this review there's a vast difference in resolution and detail between JPEG and RAW and it's obvious therefore that a lot of the detail captured by the sensor is lost by the in-camera processing if you shoot JPEG." Maybe the DS2 might be improved in this regard? Fred
