Not sure about ImageRescue, but with Sandisk you get a similar utility called RescuePro, and that certainly finds stuff you probably thought was long gone. It is not infallible though.

More short lenses but still no long ones - good.

Wanders off muttering.

Presumably the old one has broken so length comparison is going to be difficult?

Normally these belts have numbers on them which give their length, width and depth. Any clues there?

I would say it could do with just a little sharpening. Good crop though.

Very good.

Relying on the forum software to resize your pictures can also result in aliasing which gives straight lines a staircase effect.

Oh go on! It is general chat. (Plaintive smiley)

I'm very much with you John, or at least something a bit longer than 300mm. Basically a Pentax alternative to my Sigma 150-500.

You can get a free trial of PSE here.

I'm running XP home and have re-installed without a problem. Have you tried logging on as administrator and running as administrator. or logging on as each user where it is installed and uninstalling, the re-install from the admin account and selecting "make available to all users"?

Did you see the original Tony?

I am being driven up the wall by this lens failure business. I am convinced it has been blown out of all proportion. Not so much here, but on other forums (you know the ones - birding lens = FA50 on six TCs :wink they are convinced that if you buy an SDM lens it will explode and kill you. The really worrying stat. was that 20% (of those who answered) said they had not had one and would not even consider trying one.

I suspect this is the result of a few failures and a vocal minority over there. After all who shouts "Mine hasn't broken".