I've just had a look and it's behaving normally. I did however update Flash Player quite recently.

Perhaps if you reboot your machine you will get a Flash Update prompt when you restart?

What is the problem?

The trouble with printing services is getting exactly what we want. What if the print is too light/too dark/the wrong colour and so on. At least with home printing we can do it again immediately without having to return prints and wait for re-delivery.

All the reasons why you had a darkroom and didn't send your negatives out for printing still apply.

No, assumptions can be dangerous! I can't speak for Tim, but I was certainly talking about my personal experience. I routinely use two different desktop machines and, believe it or not, five different laptops, so my comment is only global to those seven computers.

If the Mamiya suits better, that's fine, it's obviously a personal choice.

One feature that was always appreciated with the Pentax 645 was that the aperture rings and focusing direction were the same as my Pentax 35mm SLRs. Nikon also use the same rotational direction.

Unfortunately everyone else uses the opposite rotation, so I found that mixing Mamiya and Pentax was not efficient from an ergonomic point of view. Mamiya and Canon would have worked together better. Or Pentax and Pentax or Pentax and Nikon. I'm very keen that there should be no ambiguity in the way my cameras operate. That way there are no mistakes or momentary delyas when changing from one to another.

It's not quite so relevant now that we have the aperture controlled by the camera and normally use AF.

Thanks, Stefan. Which versions of the browsers were these, does the article specify?

Fair question. All I can say is that on the sites I visit IE8 renders them correctly every time, whereas Firefox does not. It's not the end of the world or dramatic as a difference, but it is there.

On other sites that I don't visit then maybe it's quite different.

I agree, Pete. IE8 is much more universally compatible and is as fast on my PCs as Firefox.

I've owned both the Mamiya 645 and the Pentax 645n II and of the two the Pentax was much better made, better specified as standard (no add ons needed) and much more of a field camera.

This last advantage will, I think, be where it really scores. A lot of MF cameras are really better suited to the studio. The Pentax can be both portable and a studio camera, so it really has the edge in terms of quality and versatility.

I understood they supplied the blanks, which is not quite the same thing as making lens elements. If this is correct, then saying that Hoya have experience at making lenses would be a bit like saying that a rubber plantation has experience of making tyres.

Of course things change and now Hoya do make lenses, in the sense that they bought Pentax, who make lenses.