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Programs don't transfer like that, you would need the CD.

The alternative is to plug another screen into your laptop. Otherwise, Elements is fairly low cost and an updated version might be a good idea?

Well it depends on how good the photographer was, what the subjects were, etc.

It's so easy to be influenced by half thoughts, random comments, etc. which are made without any thought to the influence they may have.

But only buy the IIs if you understand and require the advantages it will bring. However, having said that, it would seem to be the way things are going so one day there may be no choice.

Kit never mattered. If you don't have the technical skills, then practice, practice, practice. One day the technical skills will be there.

If you want shots of small products, such as camera lenses for example, then the 18-55mm kit lens is all you need. It focuses impressively close and when stopped down to f/16 gives very nice quality.

Probably not the desired answer!

The MX-1 looks very attractive as a compact travel camera.

I haven't had a chance to use one yet, but I hope to. I did try something very similar that was very impressive and there's every reason to believe the MX-1 will be as good, with the added bonus of Pentax processing and colour quality.

Be aware that these other programs do things we don't necessarily expect. For example, I read yesterday that Picasa strips out some of the EXIF data, so one photographer found he couldn't do what he wanted to as a result. In this case he wanted to put modified images back on his SD card, at which point the camera would no longer recognise them because of the changes Picasa had made. I'm not sure why he wanted to do this, but he did.

Photoshop doesn't strip out anything, but of course that may or may not be an issue for individuals.

The Q7 isn't for those things cedricd, its profile is quite different. The miniscule size means limitations on adding all and sundry, but the advantage is that a whole kit of camera and lenses and bag comes in at less than 600g. There's nothing quite like it in the market place and people are enjoying very much what it is, without worrying about what it isn't.

It depends how far back you go. In the early 1960s 35mm-50mm-135mm was the normal set for amateurs. If you could afford three lenses like that, you were lucky. I never could for sure.

The wides stretched to 28mm eventually, and that was considered "difficult" for amateurs at first. 24mm at that stage was definitely ultra-wide.

However, soon 28mm seemed a bit passé and 24mm was the objective of choice. Then 20mm was the holy grail of ultra-wides.....do you see a pattern emerging? 18mm lenses were discussed by writers in magazines in suitably hushed tones.

At the telephoto end, 135mm gave way to 100mm lenses. And then came zooms.

It's packaged up and will be on its way later today.