Likewise, have used ICE. It does the job at least as well as anything else I've used, and better than some. Such a pleasant surprise to find a free program from Microsoft...

I've stayed with Lightroom 3 ... partly because I recall reading some complaints that it wasn't straightforward to migrate an existing file structure from one version to the next. I can't believe that's true, but unscrambling files is one job I do not need right now. Has anyone had any problems in that respect?

Of course, if I buy L5, that will be a sure sign that L6 is just round the corner.

It's obvious you didn't mean to infringe (c), but equally obvious that you did, by publishing the same form of words on this forum. Giving the original author(s) credit is mitigation, perhaps, but doesn't alter the basic fact of infringement.

The Internet makes this kind of inadvertent transgression all too easy -- and context is everything. Infringing copyright, whether of text or photos, used to be a much more premeditated thing, relatively hard to do accidentally. But as you've just shown, it's much easier to slip up now. There is amusement to be had, as you recognise, from the nice irony involved.

Well, it was an English-born male, of German descent, who popularised the kilt in Scotland: George IV. So, I think some latitude can be extended to today's kilt-wearers.

After all, we all borrow across borders. You have, eg, chosen the expression 'period' from American English, rather than our native 'full stop'.

Same publisher or not, it appears to be a mixture of misrepresentation and/or plagiarism. If so, it's shoddy journalism.

The latest Jack Daniels shots in this thread do show how effectively noise can be banished. But there is of course a cost. Flip between the two photographs and the sharpness of the 'noiseless' shot has clearly been dented -- probably not enough to matter to most people in most circumstances. But it's none the less a small (and largely predictable) penalty to weigh in the scales. The K3 seems to have plenty of merits to offer as a counterbalance.

I'm entirely happy to take at face value a recommendation from the guys that built the SR system that it should be turned off when the camera is on a tripod. It's actually not even a conscious decision for me since using a tripod without also using the timer or the remote or the remote+mirror-up -- all of which deactivate SR -- undermines the very purpose of a tripod. Otherwise, I keep SR on all the time, except for those rare occasions when I take a panning shot.

If the lock-up is not so insistent that they're likely to spot it when you send it in, I doubt any 'obligation' to replace exists. It might help if you can work out how many times it has happened over a period of time, and let them know (and if it's frequent, then be insistent that there is a fault). But the odd lock-up, however irritating at the time, is probably of no more concern than the odd freeze-up on a computer.

Nicely tranquil scene, though the problem with including the sun in a picture is that it does then dominate it.

... there'd never be occasion for anyone to want to exploit (or infringe) those particular copyrights