You can easily remove the HDD from Dells.
You could even buy a £25 2.5" HDD-to-USB2 case from PCWorld and connect your laptop drive to a desktop and pull off the images you need.

If you need to send it back, remove the drive first
Matt

PM sent
Matt

Adam,
Colour matching on printing is complex
It depends on a few things:
1) Paper used
2) Inks used
3) Printer driver setup
4) Application used to print
5) Whether the source image is correct

The Epson driver and software will use colour profiles that assume that you are using Epson paper and Epson inks. Some paper manufacturers give you instructions (either online or in a sheet with the paper) that specifies how to adjust the printer driver to compensate for the paper differences.

However, as you have non Epson inks this may still give you a dud...

Matt

No reason why you can't It's just I'm not sure whether you can get trailing curtain sync when using "A" mode on the flash.

(It should work as a regular flash though - use the camera in "M" and the flash in "A". Don't forget to check the ISO on the camera and match your aperture to the flash's suggested aperture)

Matt

Even with trailing curtain sync on an external flash there is still the Preflash of the P-TTL

It goes like this:
* Press button
* Camera fires low level flash for metering
* Mirror goes up
* Shutter opens
* Just before shutter closes the flash fires for real
* Shutter closes

Using trailing curtain mode doesn't enforce ambient lighting though... you have to do that yourself!

Personally, I get best results with the camera in "M" and the flash in "P-TTL". I setup the ISO & aperture I need, then adjust the shutter speed until the viewfinder meter shows between -1 and -2 stops Ev (ie underexposure). When I hit the button the flash fills in the rest. Beautiful results when used in bounce mode

Matt

I'm not in the least bit jealous... I've got 1 out of the 4...


The grip


Enjoy!
Matt

The D90 has one
Probably a bit "naff" quality - but hey ho! Can't be any worse than a pocket digicam. Enough to be able to sync with a proper digital recording though in video post-production
Matt

David,
The "PhotoME" free tool shows the most extensive EXIF information I've ever seen - including the individual Ev values from each of the 16-segment metering areas on the Pentax!

Not sure if it'll help you sort things out...
http://www.photome.de/

Matt

Because he can't use them on a Nikon
Matt

It does do P-TTL with the pop-up
It's not just a simple trigger - but a complex digital burst of data. I remember seeing it described somewhere...

In fact, it does contrast control P-TTL with multiple remote flashes from the pop-up. Cool

However, there is also a lot to be said for plain-old-single-dumb-flash especially when doing portraiture
(But I'd still like a few tweaks to the P-TTL flash for those difficult "ad-hoc" situations!!!)

Matt