and keeping birds off your runner beans

Oh no ! That means another set of filter holders required.

I do the same. If the photo just needs a raw conversion and cropping i will do this just in Silkypix and process the output as a jpeg. Silkypix does have spotting tools so sensor spots can be cloned out too. But if I want to do extensive further work in Photoshop using masks etc I will output the image as a 16 bit tiff file in Adobe RGB colour space so I can work on it in PS without degrading the image, then produce a jpeg from that.

Silkypix DS Pro has a great HDR tool which can bring out incredible detail from the raw files from the K1.

To be fair to Silkypix their normal price for Developer Studio 8 is about £100 and as a Pentax user you get around a 20% discount on that. They are doing a promotion at the moment which is basically half price of the full version. That seems pretty good deal to me.

I have used Silkypix for years and currently use the Developer Studio Pro version. The current price for that is very good too at around £130

You can use presets to make batch processing a number of raw files effortless, or go very deep and process as a 16 bit TIFF if you want to do further work in another editing program.

Disc is in the box. Mine is unopened. I have not used Pentax software for processing pictures since my DS in 2004

I am sure that this saga has nothing to do with copyright and everything to do with an employee : that only has ever seen the CD in a box with a camera, and has no clue who in Ricoh/Pentax he can ask to see if an alternative solution can be found.

i once asked Pentax UK if it was possible that Pentax Japan kept spares for old cameras. I was asking regarding my MX that had been out of production for 20 years by then. They responded by asking me to send the camera in and it would be looked at under warranty. It was quite clear the person I was corresponding with did not have a clue about Pentax products.

The software uses Silkypix software for the RAW converter. It is a slimmed down version of Silkypix Developer Studio.

Nice detail I agree. It is a lovely lens with a special rendering (pixie dust). Watch out for high contrast scenes though, especially at wide apertures as it has a propensity to produce a lot of CA.

The plot thickens.

I like the first one and umbrella lady.