Tyr, if your lens has an A on the aperture ring it is an A lens. M lenses don't have an A setting on them. That is the point the guys were trying to make to Pete too.

Hi John, you know me under another name on another forum

The answers may be to the short and to point but that doesn't make you any less welcome here! Anyway I hope George's answer helps!

I too have Elements, and use that to a certain extent. But I also have folders and sub folders in My Pictures (I assume it's called that in English - I have Dutch XP) so I can find things quickly - Macro, Landscapes, Dogs, Family, Holidays etc for the main folders then sub folders and sub sub folders. It works for me. Every now and then I use Elements to bung a load onto an archival CD and clear some room on the computer. (Iin addition to the usual regular back-ups that is.) I view them using either Elements, or, more often, Irfanview.

Do I need an off camera adapter for this? Because it doesn't work for me. And off shoe adapters (and hot shoe adapters) are rarer than hens teeth here in Holland and nearly as expensive.

Hallo James, welcome to the forum! Please forgive hijacking your topic, which Liam has answered admirably btw...

Liam how do you do that? Wireless flash with the 360FGZ on anything other than a D or K10? I have a Ds and a 360FGZ and it doesn't work wirelessly ofr me. Nor should it according to the manuals.....

You won't regret it! ......but your wallet may.

Really? Where did you hear that?
I thought the whole point of Pentax cancelling the 645D and flogging off their HQ was to try and get out from under the Hoya takeover?

Thanks Steve.
I have gathered from another forum (in Dutch) that there is a massive split in the Pentax board, between the old guard, who want to sell out, forget cameras, and take up golf and the new guard who want to keep on deveoping the photographic side of things. Worrying times for Pentaxians

According to dpreview, and Bloomberg the merger between Pentax and Hoya is off:
http://www.dpreview.com/news/0704/07041001hoyapentaxoff.asp

Bloomberg article:

Pentax Scraps Merger With Hoya, Names New President (Update2)

By Hiroshi Suzuki

April 10 (Bloomberg) -- Pentax Corp., Japan's oldest single- lens reflex camera maker, scrapped a planned merger with Hoya Corp. that split the company's board and forced its chief executive to resign.

Fumio Urano quit as Pentax president today, the company said, after board members opposed his proposal to merge with Hoya in a stock transaction. Hoya, Japan's largest optical-glass maker, last week made a cash bid to take over Pentax that was valued at 17 percent more than the original stock offer.

``These people have grown up with Pentax and worked there for many, many years and they don't want to lose their company,'' said Yoji Takeda, who helps manage $900 million at RBC Investment (Asia) Ltd. in Hong Kong. ``The company still maintains their traditional Japanese-style mentality.''

Pentax, which made the country's first SLR model in 1952, is relying less on its camera business because of price declines and increased competition from Canon Inc. and Sony Corp. Hoya is seeking to acquire Pentax's medical equipment business to spur earnings growth. The Tokyo-based companies today said they will continue talks to combine operations.

Takashi Watanuki, a Pentax senior executive officer, will become president, the company said in a statement. Watanuki, 54, will address the media in a briefing at 6 p.m. in Tokyo today. The executive joined Pentax 29 years ago, and was most recently in charge of corporate development.

Hoya's board decided today to continue the negotiations and said a takeover bid is still an option, according to spokeswoman Hiroko Yamamoto.

Seven-Year Stint

Shares of Pentax fell 3.9 percent to 769 yen in Tokyo. The stock added 58 percent in the past six months, compared with a 7.2 percent gain in the Nikkei 225 Stock Average. Hoya's stock dropped 1.2 percent to 4,090 yen today, and fell 11 percent in the past six months.

Urano, 64, who headed Pentax for almost seven years, led the company back to profit in 2003 after three years of losses, by focusing on higher-margin single-lens reflex cameras and medical equipment. The value of the company's stock has more than tripled since he took over in June 2000.

Pentax in October cut its full-year profit forecast because of price declines of parts used in digital cameras. The company projects 31 billion yen ($260 million) net income for the year ended March, less than 34 billion yen earlier forecast.

Medical Equipment

Operating profit at the optical component division, which includes digital camera components, is forecast to fall for three years, Pentax said in a statement in November last year.

At its life-care division, which sells medical equipment, operating profit rose in the past three years.

Hoya is expanding sales of medical equipment such as endoscopes and surgical scissors to help trim a reliance on glass substrates used in semiconductor manufacturing.

Sparx Group Co., a Japanese asset management company, and Fidelity Investments are Pentax's two biggest shareholders, controlling a combined 37 percent of the company, according to data compiled by Bloomberg.

To contact the reporter on this story: Hiroshi Suzuki in Tokyo at [email protected] .

I have Adobe Flash player version 8 and Javascript enabled and still see nothing more than a black screen with a Pentax photogallery logo in the corner. Nowhere does it tell me that I need to install anything. It just doesn't work.

I see no reason to change to Firefox, I've been using Opera since the dawn of time. On the whole I am extremely happy with Opera. I have no intention of switching browsers just to view a web site. If it doesn't work then tough, I don't get to see it, and I certainly don't intend to use IE to view it.