David,

To create secure PDF files with Adobe you need their full package http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobatpro/acrobatstd.html or http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobatpro/, however they turn out to be pretty expensive.

Have a look at Secure PDF http://www.securepdf.co.uk/main.html which may be a cheaper option.

EDIT:-
http://www.verypdf.com/encryptpdf/ is even cheaper. Most of these packages put a password onto the PDF which unlocks the protected functions, and there are programs around which can reverse this (http://www.softpedia.com/get/Office-tools/PDF/PDF-Password-Remover.shtml). So your secure PDF maynot always be as secure as you hope!

I was bimbling around on the Thames towpath yesterday, between Hambleden lock and Henley. The river is flowing very strongly and the weir sluice gates are almost fully open giving canoeists and photographers much fun.

http://www.ammonyte.plus.com/galleries/canoe/index.html

Ditto, I have Scott Kelby's Photoshop Elements 3 for Digital Photographers, and it does what it says in the title. He takes the tasks most photographers want or need to perform and walks you through them.

I believe it should work, but not all functions will be supported. I have a DS (not a DS2) and the manual says the AF400FTZ supports the following functions on my DS:-

Auto flash discharge
after flash is charged the camera switcheds to flash sync speed
Aperture is automatically set in P mode and Tv mode
Autoceck in view finder
TTL auto (with limitaions on some lenses)
Slow synch speed
AF illuminator
Rear-curtain synch (1/90 or slower)

I don't know if anyone with a DS2 manual can confirm this?

Every time I drive up the M6 and I pass Junction 19, I am reminded of that classic Tina Turner song "Knutsford City Limits"

It's lucky I didn't camp out on the mean streets of Watford, or I'd be cold and wet and dissapointed!

But there'll be a lot of us sleeping on the pavement outside the door of his shop!

Very attractive. Actually reminds me of an old Steve Hackett album cover (showing my age again!)

SJ,

Pentax are generally believed (well around here anyway) to have better viewfinders and better lenses. Their support for older lenses means you can get good deals by clever bidding on evilbay, and when a new body is released all the lenses you have accumulated don't become suddenly redundant. Being smaller and lighter than C*n*n many people feel they handle better.

Throw away the Canon!