Paul, the main controversy concerns the fact that Pentax added unavoidable, baked in noise reduction, apparently kicking in at ISO 640. It cannot be turned off. Some people are bothered by the resulting images being softened a little, some people are bothered by it in principal, some people don't mind it, and some people don't notice it. I avoided the Mark II upgrade largely because of this. I shoot a lot at higher ISO settings. Dpreview dinged Pentax for it, but the camera got a better review at Pentax Forums.
Some people report better AF. Another reason why I avoided it is because I would have had to recalibrate all my lenses for focus accuracy. Joe -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
