You'll need to check if the license agreement allows to continue using the student edition afer you are no longer a student.

PS CS5 is hugely powerful, especially the Extended version.

I think PS Elements in combination with Lightroom would satisfy 99.999% of the needs of most photographers.

And from what I understand, they frequently do.

There is a possibility that they may have no choice but to change the name if Hoya are retaining the medical optical business. It seems unlikely to me that both companies will be able to market wildly differing products using the same brand name.

Hoya may elect to change the name of their Pentax products of course.

Excellent images Mike, and razor thin DOF too.

BTW, I think he, is a she. Males don't usually have such voluminous abdomens.

C'mon lady members, just think how good your jewelry collection will look in such amazing close up detail. Handy for insurance purposes too.

I used it for a time, about the same time Firefox went to V4 . . . and was badly broken.

Yes, it works fine. I particularly liked the EXIF plugin that shows EXIF data when you move your mouse pointer over an image. It's better than any available for Firefox for showing the basics.

Their auto translation is useful too, particularly for me living in Spain.

I've gone back to Firefox for the time being, now that they've fixed it.

A reworking of #1 and uploaded to Flickr.

Johan, your moon shot is much sharper than mine. Well done.

I had expected that using ISO 1600 on the K5 would produce a better image than this actually.

The dark halo is probably due to Picasa, which is what I use to post to the web. The halo is not visible in Lightroom.

I'll have to resurrect my Flickr account I think and post directly to it from Lightroom.

We'll probably have a clear sky tonight again so I may well have another go without the T/C. The moon is actually not very high at the moment, about 45 degrees from horizontal so there is bound to be some atmospheric influence.

Thanks for your comments.

Thank you very much John.

It's nice to have one's work appreciated and recognised, even if it was only scraping a bit of paint off of a few aluminium rings.

In accepting this accolade, I'd just like to thank:-

my wife Shirley, for putting up with my eccentricities,
my two sons Graeme and Richard, for staying out of my way,
my dog Gina, for just being there when nobody else would listen,
my neighbour's cat for keeping my dog amused when she got in the way,
and all the local bird and rodent population for keeping the cat & dog amused when they got fed up of each others company.

Once again, thank you.

PS: Damn, I forgot to mention the budgie.

PPS: I didn't forget the budgie, we didn't have one at that time.

Well, three actually.

I've been trying out the K5 + Sigma 150-500mm lens combo recently but I've had no time to sit and wait for birds etc. All at 500mm but the last two were with the smc Pentax F 1.7x AF adapter fitted.

Shot in daylight 1/500th, f9, ISO 1600



Shot last night 1/500th, f11, ISO 1600



Again last night 1/250th, f11, ISO 400