Copy the area in the grey rectangle and paste it into the photo editor of your choice. Twiddle with brightness and contrast - and you'll see a number of small spots, each only a handful of pixels, running top left to bottom right.

I cannot see them on my (calibrated) Dell monitor in the image as actually posted.

Andrew

Nor have I.

The Ducati picture was created by Microsoft to test their new Vista WCS color management system. The bike is intended to be red only in applications that support WCS. It will show green in colour managed applications such as PS, PSE and FF and blue in applications that are not colour managed.

I think we only need to worry if we get a blue bike in the application we use to edit photos.

Andrew

I can answer my own question now - Windows Photo Viewer is the only application that supports the Vista new color management system WCS. See: http://www.colorwiki.com/wiki/Vista%27s_New_Color_Management_System_-_WCS for more details

As I know the answer to DOIK's checkerboard "test", I won't offer a "guess". It might make your head hurt, though.

Andrew

I wish I understood what is going on here .........

On my system (Windows 7, 64 bit), with a calibrated monitor (Windows *is* using the calibrated monitor profile generated with a Huey and Argyll CMS), I get the following:

The bike is shown as green in ..... Firefox 3.6.13 and PSE8
The bike is shown as blue in ..... IE8, QuickTime Picture Viewer, Windows Paint, IrfanView, Pentax Photo Browser
The bike is shown as red in ..... Windows Photo Viewer

As Ducatis are actually red, this would suggest that only Windows Photo Viewer is displaying the Jpeg correctly. It is worrying that PSE8 displays the bike as green.

Do other users get these results or have I a problem to fix?

Andrew
(aka Confused of Oldham)

Yes, John, I think you might be about compatibility. I bought a Transcend 8GB Class 10 card just before Christmas to use with my K200D. I get the same behaviour as Aero does with his GX20. I have, though, successfully use Transcend 8GB Class 6 cards in the K200D.

I suspect that updating the firmware on the K200D might solve the problem with the Class 10 card, but although I've downloaded the update (which *is* to improve SDHC compatibility), I have yet to build up the courage to install it.

Andrew

A Pentax AF360FGZ flash from SRS.

Andrew

Mmm ....... only 25 degrees here (Fahrenheit)

Andrew

I bought an 8GB Transcend X10 recently. It doesn't work properly on my K200D - saves 8 or 10 jpegs but then the K200D reports an error and will do no more. If I use the card on a PC, it works fine - at least, I've copied 4GB of jpegs onto it without problem. I've formatted it both on thge PC and in-camera and it still misbehaves.

I'm not sure whether there is a compatibility problem between the Transcend Class 10 cards and the K200D and am pondering about whether to install the firmware update for the K200D, as thgat is supposed to solve some problems with certain SDHC cards.

Has anyone else had this problem with a K200D?

Andrew

It's only on Youtube that the sound quality is poor. The original is very fine.

Andrew

I'll second the Dell.