The first shot is super, love the hills and the shadows of the clouds.
Also really like the macro's of the flowers, like how you place the DOF in the last two.

Why don't you submit some to the PPG?

Will try that next time.
I already found some new shortcuts in PS that i've never used all about window management so it was already going better in the end.

Is there a way to connect a window to PS instead that it floats around on his own? That should solve most problems i had.

Gimp and Picasa are fine if you want to work with JPG however if you will shoot in RAW you might want to look at other software.
Most software that specially can handle RAW mimic the Darkroom so if you know you way around that a bit you might be able to get a long quite well with such a program.

Here is an small list of opensource RAW software. http://osp.wikidot.com/raw
If you like to edit your photos slightly than RAW is the way to go.

There is more opensource to be found on that page and how to do things.

That's bad news Mike
But the AF did move right but just didn't lock, at least that's better than have the SDM not working at all...

Thank you all, surely feel welcome already and things haven't change it seems, most of you still even have the same avatar

Well he is going to check some things out

We have a tutor who is really into analogue photography. He has had his own successful studio for years and some big projects so that's all fine but the first lessons are all about digital work-flow so not really his expertize...
He did knew the basics though but linear sensor was a bit unknown to him but he knew about ETTR so we will see.

Btw first time doing some photography work on the Mac with photoshop, i thought everything was the same but it works slightly differently though.
Window management is very example very different, couldn't get the hang of that and was all the time searching for the window with the photo in needed...

Nice
Drunk already?

Maybe you can run your car on it, with the current gas prices it might be cheaper

Good to hear, those are the good things in life
I've bought some very nice 12 year old Jenever at the local brewery here and also a liqueur, it's already almost gone...
Still have a 15 year old Malt though just in case

I'm still wondering if i should get a K5 or not...
It's a great camera don't get me wrong but the K10D still is good enough for what i mostly do and i was actually hoping they also upgraded the processor, it's i believe holding the K5 back now.

Probably wait for the next one and if it doesn't have a new processor buy the K5 for a good discount because of the newer model replacing it.

Maybe... so if your lens fails it doesn't matter since it was already bad to begin with, if so you should always demand a new one...

But yeah it's only the DA*16-50 and DA*50-135, the DA17-70, DA*60-250, DA*55, DA*200 and DA*300 doesn't seem to have much problems with SDM, at least never heard of one except dirty contacts.

I wonder if they might replace the first two with an updated SDM only model in the future?
Hopefully the simpler design might help and maybe they can also fit them with round aperture's while they are add it.

Thanks Tyr but still worth a try to see if you can mimic it with a gradient filter.

It has a centre graduated filter in the middle of the lens next to the iris. Clear in the middle, darker to the edges. It is not a coated or dyed filter, but is actually shaped (negative) lens element. By making the lens element out of grey tinted glass, the thicker edges of the minus lens are denser than the thin middle bit. Simple idea, quite brilliant. It means that wide apertures have a graded edge to the iris shape, instead of a clean circle, but small apertures are not affected and there is less speed loss. It looks a bit like a 'centre filter' as sold for Super Angulon wide angle lenses.

This looks promising.
http://forum.xitek.com/showthread.php?threadid=635957&pagenumber=1