Try uninstalling the Pentax browser and the remote assistant, reboot, re-install, reboot, then try using the software again.

I dimly recall having a similar problem (but mine was caused by upgrading earlier versions) but the nuke and start again worked well (well this is windows too!)

Have you got the latest version of remote assistant from here http://www.pentaximaging.com/customer_care/show_software?softId=8793673

Are you running version 1.2 or higher firmware on the camera?

Hmmm, I've put 12,000 images through the K10D, maybe I'll wear it out before the K??D comes out?!

Unless I win the lottery I'm going to opt-out of the endless upgrade cycle for a while. I've still got a lot to learn about getting the best out of the K10D.

If I went back there it would be to fire-bomb the "olde towne flower shoppe"! Oh I hate that!

Looks nice and sharp, I tried looking for CA in the small tree branches and couldn't see any. Looks like an ideal all-purpose lens for the times that you don't want to carry a bagful around.

Very...modern.

System Restore should be the answer. However I have only found it to work satisfactorily in 50% of the cases when I have used it.

Dan, you are probably bang-on there. I did a quick test in my garden this morning.

First a "reference photo" a single shot of the scene, pattern metering, shot raw




Next the raw multiple exposure image, just converted to JPG, no additional processing




Multiple Exposure tone mapped in Photomatix Pro




The same picture with some more processing from silkypix - tone curve, memory colour1, natural fine sharpening, strong contrast




Finally a "proper" HDR rendition, 5 RAW shots combined and tone mapped in Photomatix pro (using same settings as the ME version)




As you can see the "proper" HDR image has way more range and better colour saturation than the ME version, even when tone mapped. The ME pictures do bring out some more detail in the shadows (compared to the reference shot) the highlights and skies just get blown out totally.

Both the ME and the HDR brackets were done by combining five shots at -2 -1 0 +1 +2 ev

HDR is so easy to do by using the auto bracket feature (not used for this test) and a bit of software, while the ME approach is more fiddly (you have to keep going back into the camera menu, use manual exposure) that I can't really see an advantage for ME in landscape shots. I think I'll just use ME for "artistic" effects. Might be fun on firework photographs

AFAIK, using Multiple Exposure in this way will only complete the first step of HDR photography, that of capturing the dynamic range. The second step, which you need to do in software is Tone Mapping - basically you cannot display an HDR picture properly on conventional equipment because monitors don't have the necessary dynamic range, you need to reduce it by tone mapping.

Tomorrow, I'll try taking an ME landscape like this, shooting in RAW, then tone map it. I'll let you know what happens!