Ya know, I get so much stick from other professional photographers when I go to meetings, shoots, weddings and lectures/workshops because I use a Pentax. They all have Canon and Nikon and I turn up with my trusty K20 & K10. They can't understand why I am so loyal to Pentax.

People like that make me sick, but it's like Jackitec says "All the gear no idea!" It is so true, they have this kit but some have no idea on how to use it. I do love it when they see my results, yes I am going to blow my own trumpet here when I say that mine are amazing when compared to some certain eejits.

I remember when I went to the Farne Islands on a photography trip, I was surrounded by fellow photographers with their huge canons and white lenses.

Not sure if anyone else does this, but I tend to look at whose watching me through the reflection on the screen as I look through the eyepiece.....am I on my own here???

Anyway, all eyes were on me when I was taking shots of the Puffins. They then sneakily looked at my screen when I had a peek. Some were astounded by the quality of my images.

What I am trying to say here is don't get worried by using what these eejits think are infererier cameras....the quality and build is second to none and the end results are fantastic!
I for one will never touch a canon.

Paul

If it's smaller than the K20 then I think I'll pass. I love the size and weight especially with the grip.

Paul

Be very wary from buying straight from China because if anything happened to it, for example there was a fault, then Sigma UK wouldn't touch it as it's not bought from the UK. Long winded explanation there.

Personally I would wait for the newer version or get it second hand.

Paul

Whoa

Bit off topic here but I have an insurer that insures an amount rather than the equipment. So there's none of this writing the cameras names, makes and serial numbers down.
If there's ever I time I need to claim then I inform the police of what's been taken then the insurers pay out. I have insurance for £10,500

Paul

I keep all my boxes in one massive box in my wardrobe, luckily my wife understands about the re-sell value of lenses and cameras.

Paul

[quote:3496ace15f="MattMatic"]Hmmmm now I'm even more worried, can you explain a little

Paul

I didn't go for the trial so I'm not sure, but trials aren't always the best thing to go for as they sometimes leave out some of the main features.

I suppose you could give it a go and see, no harm in that.

Like I said, before I used this program I couldn't run Windows Mail, now I can run anything that I want, it's amazingly quick

I have 3GB of RAM in my PC and 4GB in my lappy, it's just that Vista is memory and power hungry. Vista is good in certain things but I do miss the reliability of XP.


Paul

Both my laptop and PC were running slow and at times I couldn't even open Windows Mail without the computer showing that really annoying "Not Responding" thing.

I downloaded a program called "Tune up Utilities 2009" and now it runs like it's brand new.

Paul

Hey I wasn't having a go in my previous post, not at all, I am really grateful for the advice.

My files are 10.1mb for my JPEGS and 23mb for my RAW. I know that you do lose data when it's compressed to JPEG.
Oh and yes I do enlarge them to A3 plus and have had no problems as yet.

Paul