I spent part of yetserday wandering around the RHS gardens at Wisley. As it happens they have a photography exhibition which runs until April the 9th.

http://www.rhs.org.uk/news/photocomp.asp

In the exhibition were a series of photographs taken by RHS staff, and they were all lacking in "pop" and "impact" compared to the photographs taken by "pros". On second inspection the photos taken by the staff had been printed onto matt card, and I am sure that if they had used a premium grade glossy paper they would have looked much better - but then they might have showed up the "pro" images!

Ditto, looks OK from here!

Lilly,

I'd concur with John that your photo looks quite greenish-yellow on my Huey calibrated monitor. You should be able to load the ICC profile independantly of updating the driver (assuming you can find the relevant profile!) that then forms the basis for the profile that the Huey/Spyder will create.

To answer point 1) The Huey will replace the current ICM profile with it's corrected version.

I had a couple of specks, one of which initally wouldn't budge, but after a getting the camera to do a couple of self-clean cycles it vanished. As far as I am concerned the Pentax system works as advertised.

Pete,

I use Photoshop Elements. Under File > File Info > Advanced, I get:-

Ditto.

The upcoming DA* lenses are apparently designed with an image circle that only overs an APS-C sensor. This would seem to suggest that Pentax don't intend using a larger sensor in the short-medium term.

If you want to do serious landscape photography, then a set of ND grads becomes a "must-have" item. OK, you could probably do multiple exposures, one for the sky and one for the land and use HDR software to blend them together, but a Grad and one shot and it's all taken care of!

A wikitax shouldn't be too hard to set up.