Sounds like your lucky to be here to still tell the tale!
Andy

I have Photomatix and it seems to work well with LR 3. Select the batch of images, right click and 'export' to Photomatix (having installed to enable LR to pick it up). Photomatix then allows to save & re-import into the same folder/ collection it came from so that it sits alongside the constituent files

Andy

EDIT - in fact a link to one done with 2 images:
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Regarding the towel:
The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy has a few things to say on the subject of towels...

"A towel, it says, is about the most massively useful thing an interstellar hitchhiker can have. Partly it has great practical value - you can wrap it around you for warmth as you bound across the cold moons of Jaglan Beta; you can lie on it on the brilliant marble-sanded beaches of Santraginus V, inhaling the heady sea vapours; you can sleep under it beneath the stars which shine so redly on the desert world of Kakrafoon; use it to sail a mini raft down the slow heavy river Moth; wet it for use in hand-to- hand-combat; wrap it round your head to ward off noxious fumes or to avoid the gaze of the Ravenous Bugblatter Beast of Traal (a mindboggingly stupid animal, it assumes that if you can't see it, it can't see you - daft as a bush, but very ravenous); you can wave your towel in emergencies as a distress signal, and of course dry yourself off with it if it still seems to be clean enough.

More importantly, a towel has immense psychological value. For some reason, if a strag (strag: non-hitch hiker) discovers that a hitch hiker has his towel with him, he will automatically assume that he is also in possession of a toothbrush, face flannel, soap, tin of biscuits, flask, compass, map, ball of string, gnat spray, wet weather gear, space suit etc., etc. Furthermore, the strag will then happily lend the hitch hiker any of these or a dozen other items that the hitch hiker might accidentally have "lost". What the strag will think is that any man who can hitch the length and breadth of the galaxy, rough it, slum it, struggle against terrible odds, win through, and still knows where his towel is is clearly a man to be reckoned with."

quotation from The Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams

[quote:3496ace15f="Smeggypants"]Hot Shoe Mount Bubble Level

if anyone can't line up a shot in regards to their artisitic choice then they shouldn't be into photography.
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I have taken many a sloping horizon picture and been thankful for the bubble level once purchased! I guess it might partly be a problem of wearing glasses and it got worse IIRC when I started wearing varifocals!

Having said that the K7 (&K5) have the level built in - which I love
Andy

Congrats Daniel - and to the other half as well!

Andy

Is that a person in no 1 on a ledge high up?
Andy

They are like gold-dust - Kenko don't make then anymore for Pentax, and the last price when new was somewhere upwards of £120! Enjoy using them - as others have said Af isn't much use for such macro anyway
Andy

Exactly!
Andy

Not at all! It just seemed to fit my 'intrigue' mode at the time!
Have you actually done such long time lapse? Thankfully the DSLRs do have a pretty long shutter life - my few sessions at 500 shots a time soon brought up 30K actuations on my K10D!
Andy

I guess if you are happy butchering the IR remote to put the closing contact in parallel with the button on it, then no problem so long as the polarity is correct. The device I made uses a thyristor as its output control - and that effectively just shorts the contacts when trigger fires

Andy