Thanks Matt! That helps. No matter how many times I read the manual, I find there is still important information that escapes me!

I was taking some close up flower photos this weekend. I checked the histogram as I was taking them, and it looked fine. I then put a black backdrop behind the flower, and the histogram became so low that I could not even see it very well. I stopped up and down, but could not get a normal looking histogram. Could someone explain this to me? Some of the pictures still came out fine even with the strange histogram.

I also found that unless I use the manual setting on the istD when the lighting is low, the camera kicks the ISO up to 1600 on it's own.

3 yr old Dell Dimension 4100 series Pentium III at 1 Ghz.
256 SDRAM at 133MHz
40 GB Ultra ATA Hard drive
Windows Me


How do you like windows 2000?

Thanks for the undate! Does the program run slow on your computer, or does everything seem normal?

I was thinking of installing XP and than buying CS. I didn't want to go through all the trouble and cost it my computer was not updated enough!

Thanks for the advice Kim. If I reinstall anything it will be the full version of XP. I am pretty sick of Me and all the issues I have had with it over the past few years. I have already reinstalled it a few times with the help of Dell and it is an all day drama.

I will wait and see what happens with Malcomk installing the CS on his PIII.

I was wondering...are software programs like OS- better if you install full versions? The reason I ask is because I have an old version of PS and upgraded from that to 6.0. Adobe said I could get another upgrade from 6.0 to CS. I am wondering if that would also cause a problem, or if that perhaps the oldest Adobe that I upgraded to 6.0 from might not work with the XP? :

I can wait. I'll be interested to hear how CS works on your computers.