I went there recently as a corporate invite one evening, when the museum is closed to the public.

I took about 120, mostly detail, shots using just a 31mm lens and the onboard flash for about 4 of the shots.

Fortunately most people were standing by the bar, leaving just a few enthusiasts looking at the cars.

Failing a corporate invite, I would recommend going outside of the school holidays and be standing outside the doors, waiting to go in, when the museum first opens in the morning.

The cars are very close together and if you want photographs of whole cars, you will inevitably have others in the background.

A tripod would be ideal but is probably not a realistic option.

A monopod would be worthwhile.

I had neither as I thought that I would be pushing my luck turning up fully kitted out, hence just the one body with a discreet lens

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Worth reading this link before taking the plunge

I don't understand how the existing competitions can be considered to be 'not inclusive'.

For the Weekly Competition, the only exclusion is photographs not taken on Pentax cameras or the equivalent Samsung clone.

For the Fortnightly Competition, the only exclusions are photographs not taken on Pentax cameras or the equivalent Samsung clone and photographs not taken within the qualifying period.

Well, an internet search shows many people with problems.

Are you running 32 bit or 64 bit Windows 7.

32 bit Windows 7 seems to be falling by the wayside in favour of 64 bit.

I did the research, having just bought a new laptop running Windows 7 64 bit.

Do bear in mind that Elements 6 and Elements 7 will not work / will not work correctly on a computer running Windows 7.

What is retrograde about a K20 ?

PSE 7 has now been replaced by PSE 8 but I agree it is a bargain price and who needs the cardboard box

...............and this one link

.............and this one link