Has anyone else noticed a dramatic drop in spam in the email inbox?

5 pieces of spam since before Christmas .

According to the Beeb it is not clear why but it is a world wide phenomenon.
My husband says he's still getting as much as ever though.

I've never had a problem with the SDM on mine. I think it has been blown a bit out of proportion to be honest.

I save my RAW files, and the resultant Jpeg, at the highest quality, in PSE.

I actually never keep the worked on RAW - only the original unaltered version.

If I want to go back to work more on the photo I save it as a .PSD instead.

I never use TIFF - way too big a file for me.

That's a relief!

Now let's hope Mike's camera turns up too.

I wondered what that noise was!

I'm OK with most spiders but that one is definitely scream worthy.

I heard the crocs and snakes are the only ones enjoying the Queensland floods.

Hope you are keeping dry.

No word from our daughter-in-law for a while. I assume she is out of internet reach, not eaten by a shark off the barrier reef or eaten by a croc in a flood while trying to get to Brisbane.

As TT said though if you are planing on selling kit please try on the forum first rather than going straight to e-bay. It saves you money and gives your fellow forummers the chance of a bargain. If it doesn't sell here after a while you can always put it on e-bay later.


I don't have LBA, never have had. I do have a lens I am thinking of selling. Like Danny the 50-135mm gets little use with the 60-250mm around. However I do like the F2.8 on it on occasion so haven't made up my mind on that one yet.

With the exception of the fisheye I admit to being envious of Danny's collection, but know I don't need and wouldn't use some of them, and have other areas covered by other Pentax and non Pentax lenses.

He means one of these. Brilliant things. Worth the money.

They also have a fine range of WTD products.


The Pentax t-shirt which mad me laugh was the "Yes it's a Pentax!" one - in a maternity model - is that why it takes Pentax so long to produce a new model?

Sounds wonderful.
My sister in law has quinces and makes jelly from them. Not sure she has a crab apple to add to the mix though.

She had a medlar too but it died.

I've used her quince jelly with venison and it was heavenly. I shall have to pay her a visit again sometime and con a few more jars from her .

A quince?