One of the biggest, and most expensive parts of modern Digital Cameras is the actual sensor that receives the light and converts it to a digital image file. Early on in the development of digital cameras they were quite low resolution and had quite poor image quality no matter how good the lens was in front of it. The progression has slowed recently, in my opinion, and the days of yearly increase in pixel counts (Resolution) and improved high ISO (the ability to amplify the signal coming into the sensor when there is not good light, i.e. night time, indoors) are really over. Yes there are advances to still be made, but at diminishing returns for the cost for the average everyday photographer.  The sensor in my K1 is approximately 36 megapixels and has quite good overall performance, still being one of the higher rated ones, though it is several years old. https://www.dxomark.com/Cameras/

Anyhoo, one of the things I photograph a lot are Temples of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, they can be difficult subjects if you are trying to get photos with dramatic skies at sunrise or sunset. In the past I have relied on HDR techniques to blend multiple exposures to get something close to reality. I have been hoping to be able to get what I want in one shot with this new K1 mii. Here is the same photo, processed from the same RAW file. The first one without any processing, or what is often called "Straight Out of Camera" SOOC, I exposed for the sky, following my rule of "Don't blow the highlights" as it is harder to recover information that has been lost due to too much light hitting the sensor than to brighten shadows. The second image is my final processed image that has been adjusted in both the RAW development process and with some adjustments in Photoshop. If you look closely all the detail is there, it just needs to be woken up. As an aside, in this day of AI generated images, what I do is quite minimal in my opinion.

I think I will make great images with this sensor, it will be less limiting than the one on my K5, not that that one is bad at all. It is just amazing how much I can pull from the shadows.