Possibly, but an open mind until there's more to go on. But a pretty gentle attempt to wind anybody up if that's the case!

What a shame. Kodachrome is the most archivally permanent of the colour films.

Kodak has let the quality of processing slip though, almost ensuring that it could not be used for critical work any more.

Rosseline has been banned for a while now, so any messages being read have been there a couple of days at least.

On a serious note for a moment, if you want to avoid downloading spam e-mails then something like Mailwasher enables you to see the e-mails on the server before you download into Outlook Express, Thunderbird or similar.

Anything you don't want can be deleted before you download anything.

Just a reminder that repeating the message re-publishes, so Ravi, your message has been deleted.

Please feel free to post and join in, you are most welcome, but repeating the spam simply circulates it again.

Cheers!

Screens on compacts and on DSLRs are not exposure determining devices. The camera meter does that, plus some features such as the histogram and the over-exposure warning.

To adjust the JPEG output and the exposure, all the controls can be set to taste.

The K20D exposes well enough for most shots, much better than the K10D, but compensation can be set to give whatever result is wanted.

I up the sharpness by +1 and set the camera to bright and I get just what I like at those settings. Others will use different parameters.

Maybe too many 50mm lenses there Ian, but the 50mm f1.4 and the Macro are of course for totally different purposes.

The 18-55mm might come in handy to go with a camera body when you sell to upgrade at some point.

Getting the Vaseline off the filter is the follow-up headache. I only ever tried this technique once. What a mess.

Is this a new spammer or one we have already dealt with?

Please make sure we know the offending username. Thanks.

You can adjust your JPEG output from the camera by adjusting the saturation, brightness and contrast controls. We all tke different subjects and have different tastes, so the option is there to "adjust to taste".