You no what they allways say,get a second opinion.rickie made his test using an 1197 i believe.i havent had the time to do as conplete test as him but so far my 998 is not the same as before.ive got to do more testing but from what i saw the other day on a hard bottom my 998 has way to much sensitivity brightness using the third pallett color.i dont remember what its called.even on 1 its to much.when i get a chance ill try the blue pallett and see what that does.