Do he also ship to NL Hefty?
I might be interested in the DA*16-50 but I ain't sure how much money I have left over once I pay all my bills so don't take it as an offer at the moment

Tiffs are very large by nature Chris, can't you convert them to something else, like DNG perhaps?
I believe the DNG converter free from ADOBE can do that and it saves up more then half the space I believe.

70MB would be around the 30MB, not really sure about that though but compressing tiff in RAR was only a bit smaller then converting them to DNG, that at least I remembered.

It's already said before but the new KAF3 lenses (SDM only) will not autofocus on the older bodies.
We had the KAF2 (SDM & Screwdriving) lenses like the DA*16-50, DA* 50-135, DA*60-250 DA*200 & DA*300 but it's to expensive and complex to design a lens with two AF systems so the newer lenses will be SDM or Screwdriving only.

The DA 17-70 is such a new lens with only SDM but also the DA*55 is SDM only and their was a DA*30 with the same design as the DA*55 on the road map so also a SDM only lens.
For now it would not really matter since their are only 2 lenses with SDM only but in the future (2+ years) you might be out of luck with the newer higher end lenses.

Yes at the moment they are strong but for the last 3 months or more I believe we haven't seen a new CPU on those socket so their life is over and updating your CPU over 3 years will mean buying a new motherboard and that also means buying DDR3. Basicly you will need to buy a new system and their for in the long run might be more expensive.

As for the cards do you have some info about NVIDIA using DX11 since from what I read they don't want to invest in DX11 yet since the launch of DX10 was not as big as they expected.
The 9600 might be compatible with DX11 in a sense that games will run but it does not mean that it will use DX11, it will fall back to DX10. Am I correct in this?

You live and learn. At any rate, you live.
As for technology, if it would work flawlessly we wouldn't have this discussion since it would be utterly stupid/useless to spend your time on something that could be done by pressing a button, but some people do find joy in that.
As long as technology doesn't work we need to know the basics to check if technology is working correctly.
But photography means painting with light and is an art form, and art is not to discuss since it's personal so technology will never work flawlessly.

Why am I even writing this comment?

Any luck of getting the printer to work on windows 7?
I have a Canon ip4500 but can't find the drivers for win7

There are already two DFA645 lenses on the roadmap, a 55 f/2.8 and a ultra wide so is there really something to worry?
How many digital lenses did we have when the first Pentax DSLR arrived???

I also have dyslexia and I have not seen any forum member get mad at me because of wrong spelling. Really don't worry it simply for those people to get too lazy when typing behind a computer.
When a comment is badly typed it's sometimes very hard to read but a simply spellings error would not matter much on how readable something is.

The new opera has also an automatic spell check and that's a simple download and run kind of browser. It also has UK English in the package so it helps me on this forum a lot since I use Transatlantic English I believe

Thank you Carl, I also really like ASUS so those will be my main supplier.

As for picking the things of yesterday to get a better value system is really true but upgrading it 3 years later might be a bit of a problem.

I'm now running on a 939 socket with the normal DDR, the main system is 5 years old now if not older.
Bought the newest things at the time and bought the most high end things at the time the socket disappeared, that was 3 years ago but the system is still running very solid but getting a bit sluggish now.

I want to do the same thing now, so buy the newest socket and have the possibility to upgrade it over 3 years. The 775 is now at his end so a upgrade over 3 years is not really possible then.

As for the GPU I've seen some results of the ATI HD 5870 against the GT 285 and GT 295, it's performance is between them but more against the GT 295 but the energy it use is lower then the GT 285.
Those cards are too fast for me but it got me to believe the ATI HD 5850 can be a great card and there for at the moent ATI has the best card I also because they can use Directx 11.

Any thoughts about that Carl?

I had XP64 and well it worked but there aren't a lot of drivers around for it so if you consider XP64 check if there are drivers for your hardware.

I'm now using Win7 64 ultimate (build 7600) and it works good and better then xp64, I really like the interface of win7 and everything is working except the printer.
It's a canon ip4500 and only found out this morning so need to do some digging to find a solution.