I'll let you know . . . when I can find the Minolta s/w CD

My son has a 7D with 24-105mm 1:4L and 70-200mm 1:2.8L lenses and he loves it. Why change back?

Does the OEM s/w work with Windows 7 Ken?

See this article.

I use a Minolta Dimage Scan Dual IV and Vuescan. Between them they do a very good job and save the images as 20Mb TIFF's, which is not the largest. I think each image is around 40Mb if you scan and save at full resolution.

It's just a shame my 20-40 year old negatives are not in a good state.

My father was custodian of them for some years, and kept them in a damp garage.

I think you've missed the point entirely John. I certainly don't feel naughty.

Have you not yet twigged that more and more people are exploring other forums, and some eventually leave here altogether.

Perhaps the team needs to ask themselves why, and start making some changes for the better.

Vuescan is compatible with most scanners available.

Agreed. I find myself spending more and more time on 'the other' forum.

I was of a similar mind.

Whilst the hook is "We show the Top 5 Best Pentax Lenses for Pentax Digital SLRs". it's a totally erroneous and misleading statement. Those 'Best 5' are taken only from the lenses reviewed by PU.

Many of the DA* lenses were never reviewed by PU, or if they were, they weren't included in the list from which these 'Best 5' were selected.

A pretty meaningless attempt to pad out the advertising space on the right of my screen.

Shaun, all and any advertising is good, but make it a good advert.

The images in the video are superb, so what's missing?

An advert, about you. Showing your name is good, a little bit of text at the end explaining what you do and an email and/or a web site address might be better.

Or, just add a text description below the video. As it stands, it's not a very good advert. Very good images? Yes, but that's not enough.

End your advert with a 'Call to action' like, "Visit my web site at http://www.swilsonphotography.foliopic.com/ to see more of my work and the photographic services I provide". Or something like that.

The point is, if you ask viewers to do something and provide the links for them to do it, they may visit your web site and you may get some business from them. If you don't, they probably won't look any further.

Oh, and many people find music on web sites irritating. I know I do. You could add the ability to turn it off, or take it off all together. You're supposed to be advertising your images and services, so why distract people from that by playing music that most people will not want to hear.

Hope that helps.