Most complaints about excessive noise at reasonable ISO settings are, in my experience, almost always due to underexposure.
Digital exposure evaluation should be predicated on getting as much exposure as possible without saturating the pixels where you want detail in the highlights, and then adjusting the RAW conversion curve to accommodate the specific lighting circumstances. While I shoot primarily at ISO 200-400 to increase dynamic range as much as possible, I've gotten excellent, low noise results even at ISO 1600 with proper exposure. Godfrey -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
