Perhaps the major drawbacks of the 18-250mm are the lack of QuickShift and the small maximum apertures.

I found it to be a distinct step upwards from the 18-55mm MkI but it's very dependent on how big the prints will be that you want to make.

There are quite often presets depending on the individual printer, so for example our RX640 has settings like "Best Photo" or "Document" which certainly helps to simplify things.

There will no doubt be an Advanced tab that you can explore - take a look through the options and see what could be tweaked to improve your prints.

With the images you have already shot, use the Clone Tool in Photoshop to remove the offending pixels.

I know you can do pixel mapping on the K20D, but I'm not sure about the K100D. You will get these effects more frequently with a warm sensor and in low light situations.

Monitors display at 72ppi or 96ppi - you couldn't print a 72ppi image without it being very obviously pixelated.

If you have a Photoshop image open, regardless of its resolution you will be looking at it at monitor resolution. When you print it though it will be seen in all its glory, or otherwise.

I'll bet we all wished you'd ordered more in the first batch!

Be afraid.....

It can seem confusing, but images in Photoshop are sized in ppi (pixels per inch). For web 72ppi is fine. For a top quality print or magazine reproduction 300ppi is the optimum. If necessary, resample the image using Bicubic (the default) or if you have CS2 or later then bicubic smoother (to increase size) and bicubic sharper (if reducing size for a web image).

The printer then reproduces those pixels with dots of ink, so the printer prints in dpi, bascially the more the better. My Epsom 1290s defaults to 720dpi, so in a sinmple sense each pixel would be made up of around 2 dots on ink. Not good enough, so I change that in the printer driver to 2880dpi, the maximum possible.

If you are disappointed with Epsom prints then it is likely that you are printing at a low quality setting by default. Advanced settings in the printer driver will open up things and there you can also make Custom settings for your favourite papers.

I have custom settings that I have called Photo Printing (colour on glossy paper) Monochrome (Mono on glossy) Matt Heavyweight (Colour on matt) and so on.

The stark, graphic design appeals to me. Excellent.

As things stand we can all take pictures of whatever and whoever we like as long as we are standing on "publicly accessible land". One of the tests is whether or not we have paid to gain entry, in which case it is probably private land and different rules apply.

Google can do this too, and they are exercising their right to do so. Any restriction on Google may well end up being a restriction on us, so be careful what you wish for...