Originally posted by Kunzite Is it? The K-1 II is slightly out of focus - they botched the test.
Check the corners, especially the top-right one is awfully OOF.
I agree. I noticed right off that the right upper corner was significantly more blurry than the rest of the image. Either decentering or poor focus, but either way, you can't comment on detail in that part of the image. The center part of the image is significantly better focused and there, the K-1 II looks better to me.
Regardless, I don't see DP Review doing this level of pixel peeping with other cameras out there, even when there are cameras, like some Sonys, that are well known to have even more serious smoothing of raw files. Looking at Sony's images, it is totally obvious whereas here, while it is visible, it isn't obvious till you magnify things to 200 percent.
Edit: I will add that to me not having the ability to shut off the accelerator chip is not a big deal since there is a version of the camera available that doesn't have the accelerator chip. If you find this processing to be terrible, then you can just get the original K-1. Probably it is a bigger deal with the KP and K70, where there aren't options without it, but oddly, the folks who shoot with those cameras seem pretty pleased with the results they are getting (maybe they aren't as quick to pixel peep as K-1 shooters).