Wow, really excellent blog Charlie, welcome to the forum by the way!

I've succumbed and ordered a new laptop, running Windows 7 pro (need that XP mode!) But that's more because I need to to work away from home 1 day a week in the new year, so need portability.

My current PC, running XP on 4GB of RAM (recently upgraded from 2GB!) will remain my workhorse. I use it for Autocad mainly, but it can handle photoshop with ease - I work on A1 size 300PPI renders with 30+ layers, with file sizes of over 300MB!

However it doesn't run LR particularly smoothly for some reason.

Was going to suggest the problem might be the 'sillypics' utility you are using, but looks like you have got it sussed now anyway!

I did feel, when upgrading from k10 to K30, that colours (esp. skin tones) were a bit different, perhaps a bit magenta-ish, and reds way too saturated. Shooting on Daylight WB. I adjusted the WB setting myself which helped, and changed the image colour modes (I've become a bit of a jpeg shooter lately...)

Need to start buying things from the Euro zone more.

Third to last is my fave (the curved building) - lose the clutter at the bottom of the shot and its even better!

Maybe the foreground in that last one could be cropped or darkened a bit; it's a bit dominant.

Lovely fresh and natural looking images David.

Whether it will print okay depends on the pixel dimensions NOT the dpi ;

Actually a 16mm lens on crop is closer to 24mm would look on ff. It makes no difference to angle of view whether the lens was designed for crop or full frame.

A 24mm lens on crop gives an angle of view similar to 35mm on full frame.