First you need to download the image files onto a computer. You can do this via a card reader, which can be purchased for less than £10, and this should install quite happily on any Windows xp system without any need for software.

Then send the files as attachments to an e-mail.

However, it would be a good idea to resize the images so they don't take too long to send. (Unless they need to be full size for some reason). Resizing can be done in any image program, and I think there is a simple one built into Windows xp.

The owwner of the computer you use should be able to help you with that.

There is a huge variation in price. You should be able to find a really nice ME Super for less than £100. A really nice MX will probably cost more, but maybe with luck £125 might do the trick.

Try eBay (unpredictable preice-wise) but also the dealers in AP and other magazines. They seem to have wildly different ideas as to what the right price is, and I've seen a superb ME Super with 50mm in a branch of Jessops for less than £90.

On the other hand, the MX can be priced very high indeed. The MX is the more reliable camera and I'd be tempted to try for that, unless you find a really splendid ME Super.

These were around ever since the days of the screw-thread mount.

I saw some professional stereo colour slide sets once, and they were superb.

It isn't the camera that makes a professional photographer, I'm sure it's the photographer.

The Pentax range have always been nicely made, highly ergonomic and of superb quality optically. You should get some cracking shots with your screw mount lenses on the *istDS. Canon users can't do the same with Canon lenses of the same vintage!

I think we should differentiate between a review and a test.

A review, be it brief or detailed, can and probably should have an emphasis personal to the reviewer. Examples should be shot with the camera and/or lens, conclusions drawn and so on.

A test should be more technical. Shutter speeds should be measured. Lenses should have resolution tests. Conclusions could be drawn here also, but based on more technical evidence than just on opinion. This type of task is rarely undertaken these days, and I think that is a great pity.

The sort of tests I particularly liked were extensive ones. A great example was the tests of lenses from all manufacturers found in "Creative Photography" in 1980. They tested all 50mm lenses, all 28mm lenses, all 100mm lenses, all macro lenses, and so on. They gave MTF graphs, distortion readings, brief assessments. Wonderful stuff!

Can you trust reviewers? They tell it as they see it, I'm sure, but, just like Camera Club Judges, they don't see and understand everything.

Those who know me will understand there is some irony in the above statement.....

Most Pentax lenses will function Ok on your camera.

A lenses are manual focus.
FA lenses are autofocus
AL means a lens has aspheric elements
FAJ lenses have no aperture ring and so are not a good choice for you.

All the above lenses are variations of the K mount.

Very helpful, Don, many thanks, and an entertaining bit of video it was as well!

In fact, the evidence has been saved......

I appreciate your trouble, thanks Don. I'll be able to view the site tonight when I have access to Broadband, so if you can leave it up till tomorrow that would be fantastic.

Thanks again.

I would like to be able to use a camera to demonstarte camera functions to an audience, via a digital projector. This would mean the view of the projected image being the same as the view through the viewfinder of the camera, so presumably an EVF would be the better option.

Does anyone have experience of doing this? is it possible?