Hi all,

http://www.rawformat.com/

thought this might be of interest to those interested in the latest developments for DNG etc..

http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=1789525&postcount=35

a big list of (mainly) open source converters and image editors.

I'm reading up on this at the moment, so I'll use this thread to add other stuff as I come across it.

Cheers

Liam

Hi itsme,

you can print off the manual from the PDF file. That's the biggest benefit of PDFs.

Open the PDF file, and click F1. This will open the Help menu. Click on Printing (fifth one down) in the left hand pane, and then click on Printing Adobe PDF documents on the right. This will explain how to resize the pages and set up the document for printing.

It may take a bit of messing around to start with, but it will work. That's what the Pentax manuals are produced from.

Hope that helps,

EDIT: Welcome to the forum as well.

Cheers

Liam

Hi Mike, and welcome to the forum. I don't wish to pry, but from your name are you involved with Pentax commercially? If so, double welcome.

IIRC, Pentax shared their stall last year with Tamron.. but that's not happening now, I assume.

Cheers

Liam

Hi all,

Neat image now have profiles for the K10D ready to download..

http://www.neatimage.com/noise-profiles/digital-cameras/Pentax/download.html

scroll down for them.

Cheers

Liam

Hi Peter,

this board uses a code called BB code, and it doesn't have the functionality to do this.. at least it's not been set up by the admin team.

You could always, design the image to contain a text box to the right of the image, and then upload it as a complete image.

If you were doing this for a website, then are a couple of different ways using either HTML or CSS coding. If it is for a website, ask further and I'll go through it with you.

Cheers

Liam

Firstly, Hi lenscape, and welcome to the forum.

I use GIMP, GIMPshop and occasionaly UFraw, although the release I have doesn't have an image gallery feature, which I'd find useful.

Well I tried it on my machine (AMD 2600+, 512mb ram, 256mb Ati Radeon 9600 graphics card) and it's sooooo slowwwwwwwww. I know my machine isn't the fastest in the world, but as a review, I'd have to say that at it's current level of development, it' pretty much unusable, for more than the odd individual image. Perhaps someone with a very high end machine could put it through it's paces, and see if it'll work as intended.

I've just downloaded SilkyPix 3 to try. Hopefully it's better than the replacement for the Pentax Studio update, which to be honest, I don't understand...

Cheers

Liam

Hi,

this uses dcraw, but as yet doesn't support the K10D PEF, although it supports DNG..

http://www.rawtherapee.com/index.html

I've just downloaded it, but haven't had a chance to play with it yet. I'll do that later, and let you know the results. There are both Linix and Windows versions.. and it's free.

Matt,

it says it does a couple of things differently to other mainstream converters,

http://www.rawtherapee.com/usman.html

colour boost for example, using the CIELAB colour space as opposed to the RGB cs. I have no idea what they're on about though.

I was looking around for a new Linux/Open Source RAW app, as my RSE 2006 keeps crashing for some reason, even after reinstalling it a couple of times. Perhaps it had some obsolescence written into it, for when Lightroom was launched.

Cheers

Liam

Hi Matt,



I nearly had a heart attack, and another new lens to buy.. would you please not do that, for us sensitive souls..


Cheers

Liam

Hi Susan, and welcome also..

I just found this while having a check of your tip..

http://www.shopcodes.co.uk/promotions/vouchercodes/t/

might be worth a look as well.

Cheers

Liam

It's here..

WOW.. it's a bit different to my old AF200..

I've been taking a few shots around the house, and it's brilliant. Obviously using a flash is done in lower light than normal. With my DL, the pop-up flash is OK, but the AF does tend to hunt a bit, unless you focus on an eye.. and then it's in a well lit room. That AF assist spot beam is fantastic. I took it into the bathroom (I can get it just about pitch black in there) no lights, and it took a perfectly exposed picture after focussing as quickly as any other shots I'd taken. Of course, it being dark, I didn't know what I'd taken a picture of until afterwards.

Definitely money well spent, and a thumbs up to Park Cameras, for a fast turn around.

Cheers

Liam