I was very sad indeed to see this mayhem. It's always the case that one lunatic can cause so much devastation and destroy so many lives.

I wish I knew what the answer was.

I'm not sure what's going wrong here. It should be straightforward and the images should look the same in PS and on the web. They do on all the PCs that I use - seven of them.

Is PS set to work in sRGB? Maybe it's set in AdobeRGB and that's the problem?

Have you tried viewing in IE7 or Firefox to see what happens there? I'm suspecting a browser setting problem.

Agreed, B+W are superb filters.

The rumours of Pentax's demise have been greatly exaggerated...

Re white balance, I set mine to Daylight and Sue sets hers to Cloudy.

Works for us.

It used to be one first class stamp, unless the new rules on postage changed that. I'd check at the PO just to make sure.

They didn't drop it immediately. In this case the LX was no doubt already well under development and the whole process involved a move towards different manufacturing methods.

In the MX and ME cameras, and their derivatives, there was an increased use of plastics. They look and feel like metal cameras, but under the skin things were changing.

The longest runner was peobably the Spotmatic, which continued as the KM and then as the K1000 long after its expiry date had passed.

Speculation is a bit of fun, but there's not been much real information so far. Pentax seem very good at keeping things confidential.

This is a bit like asking which is better, cheese or Crown paint....

Slkypix is, as George says, a RAW converter and as such is a highly regarded one.

Photoshop is the industry standard imaging program and anyone involved professionally will almost certainly be using it. Photoshop Elements takes most of the functions of the full version that the Amateur Photographer would want. As it happens, it also has a built in RAW converter.

You can be as subtle as you like with Photoshop, and personally I mainly use it to crop, adjust levels (brightness and contrast) and sharpen. The tricky stuff is also possible, but certainly optional. Just because you can doesn't mean you should...

So it really depends on what you want to do. I don't often use RAW capture so Photoshop is my natural choice for all my imaging. I routinely use PS7, PS CS2 and Elements 7. These are also what I use to tutor people in digital imaging. This would not be possible with Silkypix alone.

You are describing pseudo-IR produced after capture.

Is Aiki thinking of the various filters you would attach in front of the lens? The usual one is the R72 which is virtually opaque. So you need to compose before fitting the filter to make the exposure.

The alternative Photoshop method is to use Channel Mixer to create the IR effect.