Best commercial product I've used is

http://www.recovermyfiles.com/

Favourite tool at work for this sort of job is The Forensic Toolkit from Access Data. Interestingly enough it works with full functionality on drives with less than 5,000 items (full cost is about 3k), so in other words SD cards are ideal. Their imager is also free and means that you can make a bit for bit copy of the SD Card to work on and avoid continually writing to the card. A write blocker would help but theres not a huge call for them.

Recovery of DNG files is another thing - not had a huge amount of success with those. Tried a variety of bits of software and playing with the headers and footers.

The Forensic Toolkit isn't the easiest to work your way round but if you are interested I don't mind talking anyone through it.

I think its a cracking set. Nice lens - I admire your bottle as well. I'd never have the gumption to approach folk to take their pics.

Another vote for LR3 - Its all I use for my editing (although I'm considering adding silver efex as a plug in).

Spot removal tool isn't bad at all. I prefer photoshop version (had a demo for a bit) but for most things LR3 works great. I just like the potential for adding a bit of mood/atmosphere to a shot with the bonus that its bloody easy to use.

Main machine I run it on is a 27" iMac and I don't have any problems with speed - as long as the images I'm working on are on the main drive.

I'd like to get into CS5 and all that layers and masks carry on but in the meantime LR3 (at student prices) is superb.

No hassle re hijacking

The Sigma 10-20 was much the same (although to be honest I think it was better than the 12-24). Fine with routine landscapes but as soon as there is a straight line its a nightmare. I'm assuming thats the reason for tilt shift lenses. In the first picture in the second set all the buildings on the left were hopelessly skewed and the lampost looked like a truck had hit it.

Thank you, but there aren't any Mark LJ's hanging anywhere - my mum has a print that she liked but that only got printed as I was at a show and they offered to do one free

I'm not a fan of ratings system - in my limited experience they are open to abuse. 500px started off nicely but has gone the same way. I agree about the portfolio thing - its the only reason I'm still putting pics on there. Not sure why folk get so weird about promoting their picture higher up the first page by disliking all those around them, although I don't think they have as many problems with people creating multiple accounts.

Cheers again - agreed Doc. I was very disappointed in the distortions with the 12-24. Tried my best to get rid of them - No1 was particularly bad. I'd never taken photos of buildings before and it was a new experience that I didn't enjoy that much due to the distortion. Not sure how you avoid it - is the idea to take them absolutely flat ie level or just use a different kind of lens.

I did say they weren't as good...

I think these are superb. Great atmosphere. No2 edges it for me, for much the same reasons as everyone else has given. I bought a 645 the other day as I've never tried film before. The quality of these has really got me planning some shots tomorrow with it.

Couple more - not as good as the first lot though

Lucerne at Dawn





7 minutes at Dawn, Lake Garda - colour as is.





Steps





Jetty Again





Steps Again - not sure about this one. Might play with it again.





Bridge Again - I was trying to get a decent one of the old bridge but never really got one I was happy with.





And Again

Yes please - if no-one else has gone for it yet.

pm me payment details if still available.

Thanks John and Andrew. I'll sort out some more, but unfortunately I seem to have misplaced two days of pics. God knows what I've done with them as I was transferring them to the laptop daily.