Vistek in Toronto has changed thier website.....
The 16-50 no longer reads "Be the first to know....when this item becomes available..."
It is now listed as Special Order!

up until adobe released cs3 they had no native intel software for the intel macs. Photoshop cs2 and earlier ran under "Rosetta" in osx.
these earlier versions of ps, actually ran faster on windows, on the macs, if you booted your mac with bootcamp, or ran parallels. Windows runs natively on the macs, not emulated. The macs running windows actually ran faster than thier windows only counterparts. After cs3 came out with native osx support, the macs saw photoshop running faster in osx than in windows even with better equiped (faster processors) windows machines....
Go figure.....

Tyr, on a scale of one to ten, (one being, all the digital clocks in your house blink 12:00, and the only time you know what time it is, is when Dr Phil comes on; and ten being geeks worship you like a God) how proficient are you with a computer?

Hate to say it Lilly, but this ones been beaten to death....

You simply cannot got wrong using a Mac for photo editing.
PC's can do the job, but there are lots of problems out there....

Lilly, now you're reminding me of a fun trip accross Canada I made on the motorcycle with Gerri. We camped for two weeks while traveling from Winnipeg to Banff, Jasper, Edmonton, and Clear lake.

I arrived to find Gerri had stuff piled up neatly everywhere. Different outfits, makeup, enough hairstyling equipment to open a salon......

I still remember the sound of breaking glass, and whisp of smoke that emenated from her cranial region as the reality of it all sunk in, whilst I hander her a motorcycle saddle bag to pack it into.

I had a tank bag loaded with cameras, two saddlebags, and large duffle with camping equipment.

nope...none at all.
psd's are cross platform.
if you get a macbook, max out the ram.
if moneys no problem....use osx with cs2 or cs3.
if money is a problem, you can run boot camp, with windoze and a copy of your existing photoshop on the macbook. (While possible I'd sooner use pse on the laptop and stay in osx...you'll never go back to windoze...I'm sure).
look into Aperture!!!!! I love it!
amonyite, look in your applications folder for a program called Automator...worth learning can save you tonnes of time if you do alot of repetive work. For those those that think photoshop actions are a time saver, Automator is like " photoshop actions" for your entire operating system and all your programs!!!

I wouldn't say that....I have really good computers, but love to get it right in camera so I can get great shots without having to photoshop everything....having both options is GREAT!

A trip to the one hour photophinisher can be good for business!

You go out get some images and have some fun. You head off to to walmart, let thier customers watch with curiosity as you pull a card outa; your camera and upload your images. You get some ooo's an awes, be generous with some tips, and hand out a card or three. (not really my clientel, but I've had two or three customers get out of line at the portrait counter and ask for my card when they found out I do location/environmental portraits.).

Hit the photo center by noon when they're busiest, and get your pics at one. By two it's off to a nice lounge (when they're not so busy)for coffee, where you examine your prints, and wind up with a waiter/waitress going gaga over your work and taking some cards for thier "up and coming" Model friends.

You sat out some of the worst light of the day and got some marketing done...time to go get some more photos.

I call that my day off.

long winded way to say it pays to "Get it right in camera"

I thinl they read this forum.
I wish they'd asked for images made on all Pentax dslrs, as most of my good stuff these last couple years were created on a ds2.
Gerri's k10 is new, and gets used for customers, but alot of customers don't want thier images used that way.....will hope they ask again next year when we have more personal stuff that we can submit.