hi,

k-m owner also - about to take some photos in the sunshine!

Phil

I have a macbook and 2 imacs - i have a second monitor I attach my macbook to when i'm at my desk at home. I also have a dell laptop and at work I use a Dell PC with two monitors. I use the apples in both windows vista and OSX - I have windows xp at work. I have photoshop for wndows and mac. I use iphoto for my pictures. I'm a radiographer and deal with 15mB digital images using several pieces similar to photography software (histogram analysis, crop, mag, etc....)

I cannot understand your reluctance to consider the macbook - i would say xp to vista is probably a more painful jump. All my kids use both osx and vista interchangeably. as for macs being expensive... if you carefully compare the sepcifications (including the excellent LED screens on the new macbooks, the bundled software and the inbuilt colour callibration) i think mac's are probably cheaper and better made.

Phil

Cheers for all the advice, can't wait 'til tomorrow to actually take a picture!

I'll download the aperture trial myself - didn't know you could do that.

I'll let you know how I get on.

Phil

Hi,

I just went down to Currys to buy a Sony alpha 200 and came away with a Pentax K-m instead!

It was the free 50-200 lens and £50 cash-back that did it.

I haven't been able to use it yet though as I have a 2gb SD card at work which I can get on Monday.

some questions to be going on with...

it takes 4 AA batteries - does anyone have any tips, which rechargeable to use? I have some hybrids i was going to use.

I'm expecting to shoot in raw and use silkypics on my macbook to play about with the images - has anybody got an opinion about apples 'aperture' software? I also have photoshop express.

Thats it for now - i'm looking forward to getting it all set up.