Well everything seemed to be going swimingly until I tried to use Lightroom or Silkypix when i was getting blue-screen issues. As this was the reason for moving to a new computer and OS I was not best pleased.

Top marks to the computer manufacturers though. A call to the tech support line and they wanted to have the machine back. They would have picked it up from me but I decided to drive it down to them as they are on the south coast about an hour away. This was last Monday. Tuesday lunchtime I get a call confirming one of the RAM modules was faulty. They replaced them both and on Wednesday lunchtime it was delivered back to me.

Now all up and running, I need to get out and take some pictures to process.

Well composed, captured and cropped.

The first is a cracker as is the last one

Very nice bird images but the Lighthouse stands out for me. At first i thought you may have used a ND filter to achieve movement in the sky but I see it was at 1/350. Lovely image.

Charming set. number 3 works well for me.

The first looks like a painting, almost Pointillism, and I quite like number 4, but got to say these are not really doing it for me I am afraid.

I like the nice low angle of the shot and it is an interesting building. Got to say that the cloudy sky doesn't help the picture and nor do the people in the picture. But as photographers we have to work with the circumstances around us I guess.

I get you. Yes all changes are visible as you change any of the raw processing parameters.

I have used Silkypix Developer Studio Pro for years now and am very happy with it as a raw converter. it does have spotting tools for cloning, but if I am going to do extensive work I prefer to do that in Photoshop on a TIFF. Working with layers is much easier.

For those with a K-1 II note that Silkypix DSPro does not handle Handheld PS files. Given the close relationship with Pentax i expect that to be addressed at some point.

Not sure what you mean by real time. it processes just like any other raw file but takes a bit longer as the file is so much bigger.

If I do further processing I create a TIFF 16 bit file from the original RAW file in Silkypix then open the TIFF in Photoshop

These are really good Nigel. 4 5 and 7 shine for me

Love the V&A. Used to visit a lot but have not been for years