Originally posted by Kunzite That should not happen - did you carefully check all possible causes?
Yes, all noise reduction settings off. Even with the electronic shutter, where shutter shock is eliminated, the 100% zoom image sharpness never reaches the level of the K3 images. Images look much smoother and have much less noise at iso 400-800, but the DA560 is a high resolving lens, and the penalty is visible.
Images with all shock/movement blur eliminated don't reach the same clarity and fine detail level. Of course you can apply a bucketload of sharpening to the KP images with only little penalty, but that is not the look that I am after.
So it's back to the K3II for me.
As I mentioned: I really hope that Pentax can get hold of a better sensor (preferably BSI) for the K3 successor, and lower the enforced image processing. Comparing the K3 and KP images at 100% zoom, it becomes clear that the K3 pretty much got the best out of that Sony 24mp sensor at iso 100-400. The only real benefit of the KP is in the higher iso settings.
P.s. this is all using PEF Raw and developing in CO1v11
Chris