Could you straighten #3? The building is falling over and really annoying me, because otherwise it, along with #2, is my favourite of the set.

No the National Trust, a charity, owns their properties. Nothing to do with the nation. the same as Eton College, a charity, owns it's buildings an lands.
English Heritage runs properties owned by the Nation.

You are free to take photos on NT properties - you are not free to sell them. Perfectly reasonable.

Not True John. All national museums may be free, but there are plenty of others which charge.

Some sort of Dell desktop, now with Windows 7, was with Vista, and an HP printer.
Couldn't tell you any more than that.

I suspect once it moves and becomes the combined Military History Museum they will start charging for it. I think it is free because it is on the air base. Now the base in owned by the Province though I half expect a fee to be charged. But at least nowadays we don't have to go past armed guards to visit it.

That would be this one http://www.cpplus.jp/en/index.html.

Maybe they are going to save all the big announcements for then rather than the PMA?

Edit: I see Pentax is listed under Hoya in the exhibitors list

Thanks Terry!
I think I'll hang on to PSE6 a bit longer. It does most things I need, and I have learned a lot of workarounds for it too.

I print at home. Not a lot, but I do. Particularly photos of the grandchildren and b/w prints, and only up to A4.

Otherwise I tend to use a local supermarket for bulk 10x15cm prints.

The only time I have printed larger than A4 they were done through my photography teacher, when I was still following a course.

I also print albums, again using a national chain store (Hema). I am very happy with the results.

Nothing here is calibrated btw but the colours always come out as expected.

Terry is PSE8 very different to PSE6? I haven't upgraded yet, and most probably will wait for PSE9(?) before I do, but I am curious as to the improvements in PSE8.

I am lucky to live near the Dutch Military Aircraft Museum. Not only can you take all the pictures you want for free, but provided you aren't there when it is packed you can use a tripod too. Free admission too .
If it wasn't snowing yet again I'd probably be there photographing a design icon right now.

Honestly I don't see what all the fuss is about. It seems perfectly reasonable to me that the NT or any other landowner/organisation would want to protect the images of their property that are for sale, and want a share of the profits.

They are not banning you from taking photos for personal use, nor from placing them on the web. They are saying you cannot sell them for profit without permission. Seems the same as a model release form to me.

I have been to places where you had to buy a permit per camera, including phone cameras, even for private use. The permit for professionals being about 10 times that for amateurs. And they wanted a share of any sales too!