Well, I found my 'RAW'photos again in FastStone and selected one and pressed 'A' and a HUGE photo appeared so I did some 'Levels' and other things but I couldn't see any difference from what I did before OR what I get from a JPeg ----

Well -- I certainly got a LOT of comments by saying something Digital is RUBBISH !! If I had said Ilford FP4 + was 'rubbish' I wonder how many would have bothered to answer -- I will put my card with my 'RAW' photos into computer again and find it in FastStone and hit 'A' as was said ( never heard of that actually as the photos have 'DNG' underneath and I set K10D to take ONLY RAW not RAW+JPeg)

Hi Folks -- YES -- I am back READING all the posts !! Well, today I got my 'Snapfish' prints back and on the one I showed of the 2 year old Party Girl the highlights ARE burnt out but the parents know nothing about Photography let alone 'RAW' or 'JPegs'-- in the box with my 2007 bought K10D was a disc with software on it but I never installed it as reading in the K10D instruction book it seemed difficult to understand and on my last 'TIME' computer ( now DUMPED) I had only 256 MB RAM and on this one a 'Gateway' it's better 502 MB RAM but I didn't want to strain the memory. -I will take a few more 'RAW' thingys and see how it goes but at the moment I can't see any difference in detail or tones . Yes, there are MANY members of my Club who don't know about Computers -- we did have 90 + members --- now it's down to about 40 as all the others LEFT saying they could not compete with DIGITAL and didn't own a Computer --- one of my Oldest Friends I am trying to get him to join THIS SITE has only just sent an e-mail with help from me and he doesn't know how to 'upload' a file from his K20D and doesn't have any 'PhotoShop' or stuff like that so I was trying to get him the FREE FastStone Image Viewer but it would not upload as his Sons have made a password as an 'Administrator' and it will not let HIM download things without the Password !!

A touch of Sewing Machine oil -- NOT even a DROP from the container -- will work wonders -- I got a free 1975 KX like that from a Camera Club friend who was selling his Pentax film gear to Ffordes and they sent back the KX saying it was not saleable as it was not working -- well, the aperture setting ring was all stiff -- I compared it with my other Pentaxes and I could pull it round OK so I put one drop of oil into a dish and picked up a very small amount on the end of some Fuse-wire ( a PIN would do ) and touched it into the ring and the oil went in by capillary action -- then the ring moved and the camera has been working ever since -- I took it to the Philippines for slide film last year !!

I have just taken the SD card out of K10D with ONLY 'RAW' on it ( as I Formatted it before shooting ) and found it in PhotoShop 7 and it does NOT recognise 'RAW' files -- my Fast Stone Image Viewer DOES and they come up as 'DNG' in the little boxes and I can click on them and adjust and 'save as' TIFFs or JPegs .
PS -- I got some GOOD RESULTS from 'Orwochrome UT 18 film ' !!

After I have set my K10D as I described above MY 'RAW' comes out exactly like the JPegs -- not 'Flat and Lifeless' -- maybe they would IF all the settings were turned down to Zero ?

I have made a post on the 'General Digital Photography' section about my 'Foray' into 'RAW' -- I did a 2nd Birthday Party on my 2 GB Jessops SD card in my 2007 K10D and took 26 shots -- well, I couldn't see any DIFFERENCE from JPegs really -- I have my K10D set to 'Best Quality' JPeg, usually only 6 mp but this time I had it on the 10.2 MP maximum, ISO 400, manual exposure 1/125 th second for flash and f5.6 for bounce flash. In the 'Menu' I have my K10D set to +1 notch saturation, +1 notch sharpness, contrast in the middle and JPegs come out very good colour -- oh yes - I did a 'Preview' on the flash WB and it was a bit yellow/green so I dialed in + blue + magenta and the colours came out well -- I used my FastStone Image Viewer to deal with DNG 'RAW' and converted to JPegs and have sent some to Snapfish for printing.

Ah !! I have been using 'Transparency Film' since FERRANIACOLOR and AGFA CT 18 in the late 1950's -- maybe the over-exposure occurred because the sitter was a long way off the background and the flash sensor picked up the dark background.

Many Thanks -- I bow to your Superior Knowledge -- back to Darkroom where I can easily 'Burn In ' a Face ---

Well I tried setting my 2007 bought K10D to the famous RAW to see what it's all about -- I heard you can get back highlight detail in RAW but not in JPeg -- it's not true !! I took a shot at a 2nd B'Day party using my Mecablitz 43CL3 flash , ISO 400 and f5.6 set and bounced the flash off wall and ceiling but the face is over-exposed -- I tried to 'Recover the Highlights' in my FastStone Image Viewer as my PhotoShop 7 does not work the 'RAW DNG 'files and all I got was worse contrast as I lowered the highlight detail and no extra detail at all -- here is a JPeg saved from the 'RAW' DNG file .