[mattdm]

I find the in-camera JPEG development tool to be one of the coolest features of the K10D. I know that PC-based RAW converters are a lot more powerful and allow better inspection of the image, but I find that 95% of the time I'm fine with just JPEG, and that 95% of the remaining 5%, converting in-camera works as well as on PC.

The major lack is that while one can set white balance to the presets, one can't further tweak those presets from the RAW conversion too. And one can pick a custom white balance but only from a previously defined one -- one can't pick a neutral area of the current image (or snap a new one), and one can't make fine-tuning adjustments to that.

It'd be also nice to have fancier tools like a shadow/highlight tool. I think Nikon calls this "D-lighting". (And in looking that up, I just learned that Nikon also has a feature to automatically correct for chromatic aberration. Ooooh.)

Oh, and also a minor thing: there's too many buttons to press. Hitting the down arrow in playback mode should go right to adjusting parameters with no intervening questions, and when you go to save, "yes" should be the default. This would save a lot of trouble, and there's no downside since it always makes new files so there's no risk of overwriting something.

So, Pentax engineers, if you're reading, I'd really like to see this in the next Pentax model -- or even in a K10D firmware upgrade if possible. Thanks!