For some obscure reason Outlook Express suddenly became unable to send e-mails, they were all being rejected by the server. Receiving was no problem.

The cure was to download Thunderbird, which I already use at home, and I just thought I'd give it an honourable mention. It downloads fast, loads all the e-mail settings automatically and imports the address book as well. Done and dusted and working within five minutes total.

It's very similar to OE in many ways, but it works and that has to be a bonus!

This particular set fits the Pentax 67 camera, which is a medium format film camera taking 120/220 film.

These are far too big for the standard K bayonet mount.

Well you might be right, but what reason would there then be for including it in the instructions? There's nothing obvious to be gained from that.

Perhaps it is a problem just under certain circumstances (unspecified) and it's just simpler to say make sure it's switched off.

Here's my first Reader's Choice Award image from EPZ. I'm delighted to make the 30 votes, it's taken long enough! Lena was the SMC Pentax-DA 55-300mm.
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An excellent shot. You are using one of my favourite lenses. I use mine for over 90% of the shots I take.

That is incredibly tiny. Now is that a good or bad thing?

Certainly it will attract users of "bridge" cameras.

Pentax users are especially intelligent and don't find an Amateur Photographer Mug to be a sufficient reward for thei work?

Another great subject to challenge us this week.

I'm sat here in my hotel room in Kent, not at my usual computer station at home, and I will see if I can make a mysterious image out of one of the small number of SD cards of JPEGs that I have on my laptop.

I've just made a coffee, so now I'm off to make an image!

I'm not quite sure why this has become such an issue, but one thing is certain and that is that I won't be uploading any images to anywhere with such a licence agreement. It seems to me that I would be granting a licence for them to do anything they like with any of my images, basically because that's what it says.

A Royalty-free image is one that can be used without restriction over multiple uses for multiple purposes, without further payment. It's not a recommended way to sell your images...

If indeed that is what is happening, and it's too soon to say for sure!

An entry level DSLR could be an excellent way to raise more sales/cash for Pentax and to woo the users of "bridge" cameras.

If this helps to pay for more research and brings more and better products to market sooner then I won't be complaining. After all, I don't need to buy the cheaper models if I don't want to.

I would suspect that the low cost DSLR will be another battle ground for the big players and it may be worrying for the bridge camera manufacturers....