Strewth, and I thought my SMCP-K 135-600mm 1:6.7 was big enough at around 4.5Kg. A tripod doesn't seem right, scafolding springs to mind.

I think I read somewhere that if you increase the image/canvas (can't remember which) size in Photoshop in increments of 10% each time, you can make a truly enormous image with almost zero loss of quality.

The PS guru's on here may know more.

I would expect from your kit that you should be able to set any aperture that the lens canachieve.

I suspect however that you are not able to, which is probably why you've posed the question.

I have the same kit except my tubes are Kenko, not Jessops, and I have no issues . . . so far.

Tip: Count the contacts on the body. Count the contacts on the tubes. I suspect you'll have two different numbers, which might be your problem, if you have one.

It'd help if you described your problem.

Thanks for the info. I'm off to Epson . . .

I have the Epson 2450 too. Sad to hear that it won't work in Vista, which is a surprise. I guess I'll be keeping an XP machine after all.

Thanks Kimbo, I'll take a look.

Thanks for taking the trouble to post my query.

USB ports are on Motherboard, Firewire ports are a separate card. I'll look into Motherboard BIOS updates etc.

Good luck with your dual boot system.

Thanks Dan. Yes it could be adriver but I'm using only Microsoft drivers on an Intel (3 - 5 years old) Motherboard.

It's odd that I'm getting the same issue with both Firewire and USB.

The only common denominator seems to be that they are external devices. Copying large numbers of files works fine from internal to internal drive, and across the network.

It probably will turn out to be a driver/OS issue as all the same hardware works fine with WinXP as the OS.

If anybody is interested in my opinion, don't bother upgrading an older machine, except for curiosity sake. It'll all end in tears if you do. Buy a new Vista ready PC and save yourself the grief. Better still, wait 1 - 2 years when service pack 1 comes out before doing so, then mugs like me will have helped iron out the bugs.

Cheers,

I've been slowly adding various applications to my test Windows Vista Ultimate PC and so far, everything I use for digital photography works OK. All Adobe software works fine, as does C1LE etc.

I have experienced one fairly major problem though.

I use a lot of external HDD's, both firewire and USB2. I find it simpler to use these rather than open up a machine to attach another drive.

I've got 2 PC's I use regularly and the Vista Ultimate machine has been my workhorse PC running Windows XP for a couple of years with no problems whatsoever and worked with these external HDD's quite happily.

When I try and copy a bunch of files, photo's in this case, the copy process simply stops. The dialogue box remains on screen and the remaining time just grows and grows. 19 days + at the last attempt.

Is anybody else using Windows Vista (any flavour) in this way and have you had (can you test) this problem.

Copying files across the network works fine, if a lot slower.

I'm not asking for a fix, I just would like to know if anybody else on here has had this issue before I contact Microsoft. I do know that my graphics card will not run Aero.

Regards,

Excellent pic. With a bit of work on the background it'll make a great 'Cat Calendar' entry.

Well done.

Did you know, If cats could talk to you, they'd probably lie. And no cat suffers from insomnia. They spend about 80% of their lives asleep . . . apparantly. Ours does anyway.