Finally, I upgraded to K20D, and my lovely istD finally can retire after almost 5 years of services. Good kid!
Together with the battery, my first impression with the K20D is: it's so 'Nikon'. It's big, heavy, solid, and a very snappy operation feel. My first question is, why the extremely large size jpeg file? in 4-star setting, the jpeg is almost 13MB; and it's 9MB in 3-star setting. Wich such a large file size, mind-as-well I will just shot the RAW format. The 2-star setting, at 3-4MB, is a much reasonable file size.
The picture quality is very nice. Even at ISO 1600, the image is still cripsy and with good dynamic range. Poor noise performance at high ISO is the main reason I don't upgrade to the K10D, and I am happy with the K20D. The K20D provides ISO 6400, which I like it!
Will try to post some pic later. Keep watching.
