Originally posted by laughlady99 I use the K-5 and I have always hated the amount of noise I get in low light conditions! Even outside in the evening when the sun is going down, or on rainy dreary days. I guess it might not bother some people as much, but I hate noisy photos and I will pretty much not use them if the noise if fairly noticeable. I do use Lightroom, which helps a lot with MINOR noise issues. :/ Ehh.. but I usually just shoot JPG, I am going to have to play around with RAW more...
I haven't been bothered by noise on the K5iis, but then it's so much better than the K7 I'm probably more forgiving.
One thing I discovered on the K7 was that the dynamic range expansion features will massively increase shadow noise. If you have them switched on, try turning them off and check the difference.