Head over to the lens forum on this site, and have a look at the chat in that. Ask questions.

The best way to start is "to get your feet wet" - take pictures, do some post-processing of them, post them here and then get some discussion going about your images.

If you don't yet have a Photobucket account - get one soon, it's free, and it will make posting your images here a fairly simple operation.

Hint - use aperture priority, let the camera pick a suitable shutter speed.

Or just kick off with 'Green' mode until you get started with your own experimentation.

The manual has heaps of great info in it, and it's worth a thorough re-read.

G'day and welcome.

Gwyn, it lists all the existing Pentax digital SLR models plus the 645D - nothing beyond.

That said, PEF is likely to have been a fairly constant standard for Pentax, so if future digitals from their stable stick with it, their PEF will be readable by Windows just as the current PEF format files are as of now.

Only works on PEFs though T-Blurb - not other RAW formats like DNG.

Well, congratulations on the camera! Great to see you posting images that you are happy with John. The sunlight shows off the horse nicely.

My first ever book(let) on photography (circa early 1970s), used exactly that calculation, in a similar tabbed format too.

Very useful, along with the other rules of thumb like for eg that the minimum shutter speed for hand-held shots should be the reciprocal of the focal length used.

Clearly, it was the diet that did it!

Thanks John,

I did the same thing Tim, and the alternative suggestion was that the towers housed goods lifts to get cargo out of the barges on the canal, up to the warehouses on the surface...

Is it right to assume the tower would have submerged then John? Do you know what vintage it might be?

Tim, I think a portrait crop would suit the subject more so than a square one?

The eyes might benefit from a little more light also?