I use the shortest review time, but tend not to use flash. I do use playback to view images, but at the end of a session or a set of images within a session. I don't consciously try to save battery power and in fact have the auto shutdown switched off.

English I can cope with. A surprising amount of schoolboy French sticks when we go to France, enough to get by. Spanish I have retained, "Juan y Pablo son estudiantes de linguas," which is not a particularly useful phrase, certainly not in high demand.

As for latin, Oh me miserum!

It's an interesting effect, maybe a little darker would benefit the overall image?

I like the idea, works well.

I suppose an ongoing theme is that I keep things simple and try not to over-think them.

Those who love Spiders and Color-Munkis will hate me for this maybe a little, but this is what I did:

The room where I work is lit by the same artificial light day and night. The blinds are drawn and thus the environment is stable. The walls are neutral so colour casts are avoided. The monitor has a black surround, non-distracting.

So far so good. Everything from camera to Photoshop to printer is set at sRGB. The monitor was set up and left at default settings. Both our Dell 2209WAs look identical, both reproduce EPZ's 16 step wedge spot on. Both produce prints that match the screen with no effort whatsoever. Images look the same on the web, on our prints, on the pages of PU magazine.

I did test the Spyder products for EPZ and using them produces a very slight improvement in colour accuracy when compared to the originals. However, if you haven't seen the original then you wouldn't know, so for most purposes it doesn't matter. The difference is very subtle indeed.

So, for general pictorial use I keep it very simple and do virtually nothing...

Yes, you would, and if done properly there will be no discernable difference.

Hm, no tables, but I reckon a second or so for the I-10 and possible slightly faster for the W90.

It's all relative and the K10D probably shoots in somewhere between 120 - 150ms. A Spotmatic would be much faster to release the shutter, maybe 30ms or so.

Yes, both Sue and I use the Dell 2209WA. It has the same relaxing look as the expensive NEC monitors, but at a fraction of the price.

My workflow is sRGB from start to finish and it works well.

Small compacts are not as instantaneous as a DSLR is. They are not really action cameras.

The Optios are of medium speed - that is, not the slowest nor the fastest. What they do have is the Pentax colour quality and they produce results on a par with cameras costing much more.

One 3V Lithium battery CR123A or DL123A.

Outstanding colour reproduction.
Elegance of design and construction resulting in sound ergonomics.
Highest quality of lenses.
Backwards compatibility.
Compact designs.

"Simply hold a Pentax."