Yes, but after week whole Pentax-community present just a three photos
Scandal [/quote]Shooting in Monte Carlo would be inspiring, the problem is finding the fare to get to Monte to shoot. The weather in London is slightly different to Monte Carlo. Never mind I can always wait till the summer!

Thank you Pentaxian for your reply re: DPOF, for me the problem is I usually do some editing on my photos which I guess would interfere with the DPOF system( am i right?)

Us footie fans have a saying which could be applied to your circumstances. The term that comes to mind is fairweather supporter.
I am sure pentax will be making great strides and innovation in the
future whether or not forum members would welcome you with open arms
remains to be seen. I myself feel that as we are in the season of
goodwil you should be forgiven after all the grass always greener on
the otherside.

Spiderman listen to this, last week I went into Asda labs to develop my snaps for my end of year distribution of photos to family and friends. As Asda of old kent rd London charged about £9.60 for 63 photos I thort its cheap, cheaper than Digital snaps.
I put my cd in and choose 63 fotos some multiple images of the same picture. I went back two days later and low and behold the photo of me on holiday with my son and daughter had been butchered.

The top of my forehead had been chopped off( on the cd it was whole and visible).I took it back to Asda only to be told by a photo assistant you should have left a good inch space at the top where the top of the photo was ! I did not waste my breath with the assistant I asked for the manager and when he came I explained to him his photo lab had butchered up my photo ( infact 4 copies had been butchered ).


He wanted it to be printed again before considering a refund.
The assistant who must have had a tongue lashing from her boss placed the cd in and made some fine adjustments which gave my head some clearance. I said I would call back in the evening.

At lunch time I went to digi snaps and had the same photo printed off the CD. The picture came out good with no forehead cut off.

In the evening went to Asda's yes the picture showed me with out my forehead chopped off but the colours were saturated.
I will never go there again to have my photos printed.

I would like to know what the silkypix free version is like, can anyone comment on this?

Guys thank you, your have expanded my knowledge on a subject I never knew exsisted many times over. The trouble is buying the software, after working in the fields like I a peasant to get the K20d my finances are in need of replenishment.

Thanks Isaac for your comments I looked at the photo and what caught my eye was the clouds. In the back of my mind I am thinking this could have been done in photoshop

Mr Pentaxian ( I believe that you are male) thank you for the information,I went into my local photoguru's shop and when I asked him about Hdr he said I would need three exposures and then work on them with some software. He also said foreground exsposure and background exsposure would be needed.

I told him I was thinking more inline of using the function button (pressing it twice to get the dynamic range). He told me he had not tried that.

Clearly this camera has a lot functions and abilities ,I jus hope I can master them all b4 they bring a new model out.

What can I say Mannesty, I got my manual out and went to the aforementioned chapter and there it was. full instructions. The sad thing is I though I had read this manually completely. I had not I had spent many hrs reading and rereading the various modes of the K20d.

I even phoned Pentax Tech support and the guy with the dodgy accent clearly did not know, he told me to use flash up! Thanks once again.

If there is another one going at that price (with manual ) let me know