Well, of course this has nothing to do with the camera being on a tripod or monopod.

As I've shown, SR does not cause shake in the picture when the camera is on a tripod, and as Matt's shown, unstabilised SR can cause blurred pictures even handheld.

And, of course, in any of the delayed or remote modes, the camera turns SR off regardless of the position of the switch.

It's really time the misinformation concerning SR and tripods drew to a close.

But I would agree that the OP should post one or more of the offending images, and more detail of his precise setup.

Do you have any evidence to suggest that the K200D is any different from the K10D in this respect?

What are Macs like (under Windows) for running something like Crysis?

Could you elaborate, Matt? (I have no slides)

This is the first ray of hope I've seen, and I'd like to be as sure as I can before shelling out.

Also, O oracle , any idea whether the OD improvement between the V ED (4.2) and the 5000 (4.8 ) is worth having?

I'm sensing you're saying it's not a quick process, John..

Well yes. Thing is, I'm not getting any younger, and there are a lot of my memories locked up in those negative folders. And a few half-decent pictures. A bit like Dumbledore's Pensieve, in Harry Potter.

I work at home, I'm at the computer anyway, so if it would just scan a strip of 6 and present me with 6 big files to save I think it would be worth biting the bullet. I'm not worth much before the coffee's kicked in of a morning, so I'd probably do it while I wasn't yet completely conscious.

It's if I have to muck about, fiddling with it for every frame, that maybe I should really give up the project.

I was afraid of this.

So what does happen if you feed in a strip, all the digital ICE options on, and walk away for a while?

Yeah, I tried that. I am totally, totally rubbish at looking at negs and having the slightest idea of what's on them. I can just about see that a picture has people in it, but who they might be is a complete mystery.

I don't mind the actual time it would take to do its stuff - it could take 20 minutes a strip for all I care, just so long I can somehow avoid doing anything else to it between the feeding in, and saving the results to the hard disk.

If that was possible, I could do a film a day, no problem, and after a few months, they'd be done.

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Edit: and before some bright spark points out that 0.001% of 4000 is a lot less than 1, so I should just bin the lot, that wouldn't help, ok?

Welcome, Steve.

Liked the Lake District series - and it looks like you took the same route up Haystacks that I did back in the Spring. A few in this gallery with very similar viewpoints so some of yours. A cracking walk, that.

I've been considering getting one of these (or, possibly its big brother, the Coolscan 5000, which has a bit more optical density range).

What I really need is, for a first pass, to be able to get decent scan quality, with minimum effort, since I have about 4000 negs to scan - all my film from 20 years or more.

I don't have the prints, and I'm sure most of it will be dross, but I won't know what I've got till I've scanned the whole lot.

So I want a workflow that consists of something as close as possible to "feed a strip, press the button, let digital ICE sort out the dust, contrast and colour, and save the images" - while I'm working at other stuff.

Then when I've been through them, I'll be in a position to go back and re-scan the 0.001% that are worth optimising.

With your experience of the V ED, is what I'm after anywhere near possible?

A golf club then.

These spiders need to understand that it's not in their evolutionary interests to grow so damned big.

Well, the Bigma it is, then.