I'm not doing a sales pitch for the BBC Radio Times, but in this weeks edition, there's an offer for a device to transfer 35mm film and slides to digital ( no pc needed ). Don't know if this might do the job , looks interesting, might do want you want.

One I tried and found most useful, was a guide by Yvon Bourque, again written in English , not a translation, see link below
http://www.k10dbook.com/

If I shoot in raw, the image resolution is 240ppi, is this sufficient to get the good prints on a Hp printer, even if your save the image as a JPeg, the resolution stays at 240. I'm not sure where this fits in with DPI.

Interesting Course, looks like more focused on Elements and Digital Imaging. What about the massive difference between cost for UK residents and others ( stated reason is Gov subsidy ),

Yes, I'm doing the course and find it excellent, has helped me make that jump from auto mode. You can register and look at the forum without signing up for the course and you'll see the level of info, help, advice etc, hope this helps.

Hi Claudio, have a look at proudphotography.com (this one you will see advertised on the pentax Site). It's a very good on-line course with good project work and is excellent value at a very good price.

Congratulations on having this great photo selected for the Calendar.

Thanks for sharing what you guys do with 16bit. Have been doing somewhat same and for any images of major family events etc, I usually backup to seperate DVD immediately after loading from camera in case I want to revisit same at a later date. Difference is that when I got the advice from Adobe, I set the pse6 to 8bit and it has held this as a default. Must do some more testing.
Regards
EddieD

This question may have been asked before but I have failed to find a thread. Maybe some users of Elements6 may be able to help. When I open a DNG image and go to save as, the standard jpeg is not available for use with a 16bit image. I did query with adobe and they say that if I want to save a copy in JPEG then I must switch down to 8Bit. If I save in 16bit using psd or jpeg2000 or tiff then the files generated are far bigger than even the DNG. Are there real benefits in staying with 16bit. I wonder if PSE7 does anything different.:

I'm now using Elements 6 and it has Colour Curves. Also has layers (was also in PSE5) which I understand is same as PS layers unless layer masks are advanced features of layers.

EddieD