So here I am at the pub with my laptop, surfing the Pentax user forum using up my remaining WiFi allocation from BT..........

(I wish )

I must have misread the topic title as I thought it said "top tip for friday night" I was hoping to read some exciting ideas like "go to the pub" or even "go to the pub" or even my favourite...."go to the pub"

Bonjour Cherrylicous

welcome to the forum, I am not jealous of you new lens.....honest

I was talking to chap a few months ago who had bought from one of these "we refund you import duty" ebay sellers. seems he had no problems in getting them to credit him with the import tax.

The way I see this is the seller knows they can provide you with equpment cheaper than you can buy it it the UK, so they inflate thier price to cover the cost of import duty, if they get away with it they make a few extra bucks, if not then they get from you what they would normallly sell it for anyway....swings and roundabouts.

Of course the only problem the buyer has is worryning about who covers the warranty

You mean you did the bride a favour

Seriously tho' it sounds like it all went down quite well and I think you deserve a medal, I've done two weddings, my sisters second marraige and a friend of my sons (the latter only lasted three months

The pressure is enormous and IMHO its something best left to the pro's, taking pics as a guest is far more pleasurable, in fact I have had some stunning shots under these circumstances, far better than posed for pics

You will need a special bit of software to copy and paste the data into a "text" format, try a web search for "exif reader" I think there was a bit of freeware along those lines.

I think this is a case of "everybody loves Chris"

I posed this very same question when I first joined the forum and nobody replied

I eventually decided against the handstrap as I thought it could restrict me doing anything else with my hand, if you decided to get one Chris let me know how you go with it.

if you guys think your'e going to see my ugly mug your'e wrong

Welcome to the forum Richard, shame you couldn't join us on saturday, Saltaire would have been ideal for you.

Had a visit from my brother this morning, he sorted out my problem in about five minutes, it seems there was some sort of conflict between windows explorer and adobe photoshop, something on the lines of both photoshop and win explorer trying to produce thumbs at the same time, my image folders are now up and running

thanks to everyone for the advice