Photoshop Album Starter Edition doesn't handle RAW. For viewing and basic adjustments, use Google's Picasa.

The cosmetics of the Samsung GX10 and the Pentax K10D cameras are slightly different, but the body internals are designed and made by Pentax, the Samsung variant has its own firmware too. I think the same is true of the Schneider lenses in that the glass and internal mechanics are one and the same, only the external casing/livery is different.

On that basis, I too bought a Samsung 50-200mm lens from Jacobs for £49.99 + shipping. A real bargain in my book. Currys still have the same lens listed at £29.97 . . . but I defy anybody to find a shop that has one in stock, and they are only available on a 'reserve & collect' basis.

Once upon atime . . . Capture One LE (C1LE) was the 'best' RAW converter.

Then the K10D came out and was widely adopted by many of us here, but. . .C1LE didn't support the PEF's or DNG's that the K10D used. Silkypix technology was used for Pentax K10D's RAW conversion tool, Pentax Laboratory.

Due to lack of alternatives, Silkypix was adopted by some as the new 'best' RAW converter.

Adobe Lightroom came along and removed any need for alternative software because it does all we need.

I have a C1LE license and eagerly await version 4. Version 3?, I don't use it. Lightroom is much simple IMHO.

400mm was always considered a reasonable focal length for shooting wildlife pics on 35mm format. Taking the 1.5 crop factor into account, the 80-320 becomes 480mm at the long end and it is a compact lens to carry around.

I use the Sigma 135-400mm APO non-DG, which equates to 600mm at the long end with pretty reasonable results (camera and lens are fine, my technique and available time lets me down).

I think a K10D equipped with this lens makes a good wildlife combination. The lens has a built-in tripod mount too.

If you have IDE drives, and you have added the second drive to the primary IDE controller as a slave (with the system drive - C: drive on Primary/Master), move the second drive to the secondary controller as master.

This is not an issue if you have SATA or SCSI drives, which I think is unlikely given the CPU speed that you have mentioned.

Like this you mean ?

I'm thinking of taking my K10D to the San Javier Jazz Festival on Saturday 28th Aug.

http://jazz.sanjavier.es/Musicas2007/indexEn.htm

John Mayall is playing, hopefully some decent blues.

Dunno what lens to take though. I think the 135-600mm will be a bit obvious . I'm thinking about using the the FA 80-320mm, FA 50mm 1.4, FA 100mm Macro or FA 77mm Limited and can't make my mind up.

Brilyunt, exserlunt yuse ov the inglish langwij.

Maybe not, but they'll probably enjoy your picasaweb gallery. I did. There's some very classy work there, well done.

I'm surprised nobody has used this to highlight the manual lens exposure issue to Pentax.

If they are watching, do it, we might get something done about it before the K10D fades into oblivion when a new body comes out.

It'd help even if they simply declare that pre-A series lenses can't be used. At least it would clear up the issue and draw a line under it . . . then watch the flood of manual lenses appear on eBay.