Interesting, did you ask him what the problem was?

You need a lot of practice before shooting a wedding properly and that will be the most important thing to think about.

The *istD is relatively slow compared with current models, so I would suggest and upgrade might be worthwhile. Plus another camera so you have one each!

It doesn't matter in one way which body you choose, but two the same would be a good idea.

You would survive with two K-m or K-x bodies and the kit 18-55mm zooms to go with them. Built in flash will do if costs need to be kept down.

Bear in mind this is simplistic advice based on the notion that you need something basic and inexpensive. Add spare batteries to the list by the way! And lots of SD cards!

I think it's called film....

Can your computer read 5.25" floppy disks or even the more familiar floppy that used to be an "A" drive? How about Kodak RAW files?

Admittedly most things can be read with a bit of searching for software on the internet, but there will come a time.

The days of the CD may be numbered, with no doubt the DVD to follow. Given enough time everything could be lost from our images. The biggest danger is that we will get old, cease to update and apgrade our sustems and eventually they will just be chucked away because no-one has the time or inlcination to make the effort.

Now I've cheered us all up, must be time for lunch!

At the bottom of every page of PU there is a step-wedge that will enable at least some basic calibration.

That's less than the magic 2000g, so Royal Mail Small Packets service should be fine.

If there is an area of particular interest, how about a book, say, on Landscape photography, or Portraits and so on.

The trouble is that photography is susch a big subject that there are rather a lot of books.

They don't have to be Pentax orientated - photography is photography regardless of the camera used.

Keep all, as in years to come the scanned images could well be unreadable. In any event, the inclination for most people to look at some old unused hard drive in case there's something interesting on it will be very low.

A physical copy such as a negative or print potentially may get used again. I say potentially because colour negatives in particular are very unstable themselves.

I have started to use Save As again as using Save For Web, although giving more accurate options for file size, strips out the EXIF data.

If using Save As just use the quality level that gives the closest file size to what you require.

Try this spec:

1000 pixels on logest side
sRGB
72ppi
JPEG
File size 400K or less, at least 200K though.

That should upload in seconds and there will be no loss in quality compared to the huge files you are currently uploading.

As for a 7.8MB file, that's total overkill....