I would appreciate some help on how one manages to retrieve images from the card and place them into a folder on the PC. The newly published manual (on the pentax site) is silent on this. I had thought that one could read the images from the card reader in my PC just as I do with ordinary cards, but the flu card does not seem to be recognised. I am using a Nexus 7 and have succeeded in getting the tethering up and running but not in being able to access any of the images on my PC. I can see them on the nexus but how do I transfer them to my PC? I got some advice on the other forum, but it is very technical to say the least and in fact too much so for me to be able to understand it! Is my card defective or can flu cards not be read in a card reader? Any help would be much appreciated as I am beginning to feel that any advantage from tethering is negated by the difficulty of operating it.

I can see what attracted you to the subject, but I think all the grasses and stalks make it all rather messy and complex and the lack of detail in the water bothers me. I would like to have seen the bike and tree really sharp and standing out against the less sharp background, but I like the basic idea of the bloke fishing, having left his bike leaning against a tree.

Download PhotoMe from the web and when you open an image in this, it gives a mass of data including the shutter count

I also received an invitation to download this for free and it works very well. I am very impressed with this software but as yet can not understand why it was offered for free. I can not comment on how it differs from previous versions but it looks to me as if it covers much of the same ground as some of the Topaz filters, except that it does it in one package.

Apologies - I meant to say 1GB.

I have just updated using a 1 mB card. It is so easy using a card - just drop the extracted bin file onto the card ( not the DCIM folder)and Bob's your uncle.

The advantage of deactivating the software is that it can be used on another PC. Adobe allow use on 2 PCs. I recently deactivated PSE8 so that I could install it on my camera club's laptop. Once deactivated there is no point in keeping it on your PC. PSE 10 is a pretty capable program and subsequent versions have simply added a few bells and whistles. I am sure that someone would be more than happy to use PSE 10 and I would have thought that it is worth at least £15.

Competitions are a bit scary to begin with but you do learn fast when you get constructive criticism and particularly from seeing the work of other members. Above all you have to bear in mind that the main thing is that you like the picture - if the judge likes it then it is a bonus. We are all different in our perceptions of beauty and judges are just the same so a hit with one can sometimes be a miss with another and vice versa. Camera clubs are a great opportunity to show your pictures and share them with others.

Just checked remote function with my K3 and a non pentax remote control which I bought some years ago from SRS and it works OK thank goodness!

It is not the same deal at Park Cameras - they declined my old 4mp fully functional bridge camera on the grounds that there is no demand for such an item!