May I be so bold as to correct John's post;

Congratulations on your success!

I hope your daughter enjoys her Olympus and it sets her on the Road to Pentax

The first Owl is obviously thinking "oh no not another photographer" the second Owl however is much wiser, he knows the Pentax will capture his good side

...the moral of this story is;

Dan has stolen everyone else's luck

This is really getting tedious, having to search the forum for old posts to help out the newbies

This may help you decide Clarky;

https://www.pentaxuser.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=3841&highlight=80320

I'll say However he was good (nay, excelent) in his field, but then again so were Lennon, Mercury and Sinatra, either way its a sad loss.

PS Before I get any response about forgetting Elvis, he would have been up there with the greats if he'd not spent so many years wasting his talent on "B" movies (although I have to confess to watching tham all )

I use a Benbo with ball & socket head, only really use it with my Bigma as I find it too heavy to handhold, its a poor substitute for a solid tripod but a lot easier to tote around

Unfortunately I never got around to colour printing, I've done B&W and developed slide film but thats about it Now instead of messy chemicals we just get ink all over our fingers

Thanks Matt, have registered with photobox and have managed to create a tool preset for cropping.

How do you guys crop and prepare your images for lab printing?
I'm using Photoshop7 and find if I enter the required print size in the size box it will literally reduce my image to say 7x5, If I send those files to a lab will I get a decent print?

Also what sort of file size do you save at, I always seem to end up with files two or three times the size of the original, thats saving as jpeg at maximum quality, Tiffs are just ridiculous and often ten times the original

I need to get my sons wedding pics sorted and pro printed

Hmmm, somthing to assist shooting while a passenger in a Willys Jeep.......have you thought of contacting NASA