It will need to be online to check your subs before opening PS.

You will still be ableto view your files locally just not through PS and you have just noted why the ado e plan will work. Nearly every dslr shooter at some point will replace there dslr hence requiring a PS subscription.

I only know because a friend paid £300 new from one of the Asian ebayers. He used it on a Robbie shoot last night at the etihad and the images looked really good straight out of cam.

Possibly once a week the program will check your subscription level.

I'm used to having nothing on my desktop except the recycle bin and my most used profs on the task bar and start button. The most annoying thing is on win 8 is when you install a new program you then have to dtop to metro and search for it. For me it just gets in the way. I have used windows since 3.1 and have an ONC in computing so like to think I know a bit about IT. I know one thing apple would never launch anything like that. Oh yeah I remember first time I used a mac looking for two hours for the browser I mean safari come.on how obvious id that lol...

I think the phrase cat amongst the pigeons applies here...

As I understood it the raw files sooc should be just that raw files, straight from the sensor.

From what I am aware the software should sharpen out the effect of the AA filter on files from cameras with the filter hence standard raw conversions looking slightly sharper with no user sharpening applied.

the new canon x2 mkiii Tele retails at over £300 the pentax will most possibly be the same...

I upgraded to 8 and went back to 7 yet windows phone 8 is brilliant, so simple and elegant.

I think win 8 forgets its supposed to be an OS and not an hindrance which it is. I also thought about going apple but decided I needed another laptop first so tomorrow I take delivery of yet another win 8 laptop with win 7 disc at the ready...

Online cloud backup services are great for off premises storage as a backup to your backup, but to just use an online service on its own is shortsighted as you mentioned John, firms go bust and services fail.

Its not cloud based software, you still need yo download and install PS