I'd have to disagree with that statement. The "standard issue" JPEG from the istDS seems overly sharp to me, and as noted in another post, I set the sharpening to the lowest setting (off?)
Shel > [Original Message] > From: Boris Liberman > The most serious weakness of (all?) Pentax DSLRs is rather soft and > generally poor quality of JPG straight out of the camera. But if you > resolve to shoot RAW - you'll be just fine.

