I had a Super A; I loved it and used it for years. I took it everywhere and have thousands of slides - which I'll digitise one day.

I sold the whole kit, including three lenses, extension tubes, winder, digital back and accessories, for next to nothing a couple of years ago...

...AND HAVE REGRETTED IT EVER SINCE!

Some captions:

Turtle: I'm a big scarey animal with sharp teeth and a vice grip. Don't
try and look at me or I'll eat you. Now - take me to the other bank.
***
Crocodile: Mmmm! Can I smell cornish pasty.
***
Turtle: Woah! I'm sure the bridge just moved!
***
Crocodile: Useless web dating. Not only do I end up with a turtle but she's
scared of water.
***
Crocodile: If I'd paid a bit more I could have got a GPS.
***
Crocodile: That's odd. I think my hat just crept backwards.
***
Turtle: The last thing I remember was falling asleep on a nice warm log. Now where am I?

That's astonishing.

I assume you watched to see the outcome? What happened?

This must be one of those cooperative arrangements that benefits both species but what does the crocodile get out of it? Fresh lunch?

Geek info
Camera model : PENTAX K10D
Exposure time : 1/250 s
Aperture : F8
Focal length : 95.0 mm (35 mm equivalent: 142.0 mm)
ISO speed : 100

No.

I'm suggesting Pentax might like to look the possibility for the K10D's successor.

Really? The flip-out, rotating screens with live preview are extremely useful - especially when framing shots at awkward angles or over crowds.

It is certainly on my list of nice-to-haves for my future upgrade.

That didn't stop you joining the forum.

Anyway - we've already signed up. They could use the same member database.

Forums don't lend themselves well as a way to store and present static information. They're fine for conversations (although, I've always thought they should be threaded, like Usenet).

What we need for reference information such as links, how-tos and the like, is a wiki.

USB has been through a few transformations over its lifetime.

USB 1.0 was fairly quickly replaced with USB 1.1 which operates at two data speeds: 1.5 Mbps (megabits per second) and 12 Mbps.

1.5 Mbps is called low speed and is for slow devices like keyboards and mice.
12 Mpbs is called full speed and is ideal for devices with modest speed requirements such as printers, webcams and broadband connections.

However, even full speed is slow for data storage requirements; so to extend the usefulness of USB, high speed was introduced by the end of 2001 and this transferred data at a useful 480 Mbps.

High speed is ideal for digital cameras, and storage devices like memory card readers and external disk drives.

If your computer was made before 2002 then it may only have USB 1.1 ports so you'll be limited to 12 Mbps but you can buy adapters to add USB 2.0 ports and they're easy to fit if you're happy with opening up a PC.

Data transfer at 480 Mpbs gives a progress bar that is a very satisfying - though brief - thing to observe.

USB 3.0 comes out next year adding 4.8 Gbps - a ten times speed increase. That is rather unimaginatively called super speed. Devices aren't expected much before 2010, however.

Get two screens. They don't have to be side-by-side. You could mount one on the wall above the other, maybe.

I've used dual monitors for years and it makes a huge difference to your efficiency in all sorts of jobs.

Also, everyone in the office has dual monitors, too. It is simply not worth messing about for the cost of an extra monitor these days.