Wow - really interesting. Good effort! I must read up more on this....

Paul

To echo others comments, I have the 35mm macro and love it. Thinking of getting the K5 body also.
Have you seen this review of the 35mm, says it all really -
http://photo.net/columns/mjohnston/pentax-35mm-lens/optical-discussion/

Cheers

Paul

Good link from Gwyn and also taught me something I didn't know. However to be a tad pedantic the link is incorrect when it says Lightroom doesn't have any editting tools, the screenshot clearly shows the adjustment brush and spot removal tools visible on the lightroom develop toolbar!

There are of course still reasons to go from LR to PSE, but as my main "use case" is for panoramas (which LR definitely doesn't do!), I need a slightly different workflow.

Paul

I've got a ready NAS NV+ with 4 1.5TB drives in XRaid. Links to main PC via Gig ethernet, works absolutely fine.
If any individual disc goes you lose nothing and it emails you to tell you not happy so you can hot swap the faulty disc and resync. If the chassis goes you could be stuffed, so I secure the NAS photo backups to a 1TB external HDD.
If your NAS has access to a network router you can set it up so you can access the NAS from 'tinterweb, but I have not done this and I'd be careful about security!

Paul

I don't know for sure, but I would think it unlikely since LR3 stores its photos in an ****.lrcat file which I imagine PSE9 can't read - just tried to open an lrcat file with PSE9 and it fails.
What exactly are you trying to do? You can certainly point PSE9 and LR3 at the same underlying file structure / set of photo directories but that wouldn't let you share ratings, collections, tags etc.
Cheers

Paul

As a photographer who also rock climbs...this is insanely dangerous. Margin for error nil, and if the guy at the top falls he takes his mate out. 2 craters.

Paul

I use my 35mm ltd macro as my walkabout, same focal length as your 35 2.4.
Need a wideangle? - stitch a panorama...

Not used LR2 but do have LR3 and am very happy with performance. Currently runs on i5/750 with 6GB RAM.

However before that I was running LR3 on a 2004 vintage single core 2.GHz machine with 2GB RAM and it was OK, so think you should be fine. More memory definitely helped.

I'm sure someone who has used both on the same machine will be along to comment.

Enjoy!

Paul

I use LR3 for 95% of all my PP work apart from stitching the panoramas which gets done in PSE9.
If LR3 could stitch I'd never use anything else.
The full ACR in LR3 is much better than the cut down version in PSE9.
If you buy old LR and/or PSE it may limit your choices of RAW converter (and hence camera) in future - unless you save your RAW in DNG format!

Paul

Another vote for Lightrooms grad filters - but of course only if you shoot RAW. I've recently started using them "the other way up" to lighten and apply other effects to a dark foreground. Can work very well.

Personally I've not seen much HDR work I've been convinced with. At the end of the day I aim for something that represents what I saw at the time and HDR usually doesn't. Always exceptions of course.

Where the dark areas are close to the camera a little discrete fill in flash can work wonders. Particularly as our cameras allow us to control the intensity!

Paul