Moral: never bet against a true gambler!! Heehee!!

I'll see you - and raise you a Kit-Kat!!

DRORLOFF - I think this lens is circa 1976. According to the link below, it was listed in the Photopia catalogue around that time. It's the only source of info I could find that refers to PALAR. It also seems an interesting article in itself.

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I agree, gents. Perhaps, as well as manufacturing cameras, Ricoh Pentax can work on developing image sensors capable of being built in to smartphones, if not actually launch a range of smartphones themselves. Think of the publicity RP would get if the likes of Nokia, Samsung, HTC, Blackberry, or even Apple were to opt for a phone with an excellent pentax sensor on board. My thinking is: if people that swear by iphone (as an example) knew that the image sensor inside was manufactured by Sony, they would perhaps be swayed to purchase a Sony camera. Likewise, if the Pentax brand and logo were emblazoned on the iphone's packaging, with maybe room somewhere for the Pentax name on the product itself. Surely this is a marketing possibility staring them in the face, but they just haven't got around to noticing... yet!!

I stumbled upon this interesting article about cameras v's smartphones. It raises a few interesting points.

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Vic - you should be able to connectyour laptop to your pc like this, so long as your laptop is "recognized" as a USB MASS STORAGE DEVICE. Alternatively, if you already have your images on a cd or dvd, you can copy them to a new cd or dvd. In the absence of a secondary device to use to burn the copy, your pc will instead place youe images into a TEMP folder. If using Microsoft's own copying program, you will get a popup telling you that you have FILES READY TO BE BURNED (or words to that effect). Once you have added all your images (don't exceed 650Mb if burning to cd, 4.5Gb if dvd, and about 8.2Gb if using dual-layer dvds) and are ready to proceed, insert your new, blank media, and follow the on-screen instructions. If you have a program (such as Nero burning rom) that allows the data to be verified, set this up too, and you will know immediately if you will need to re-burn the disc, or not. This saves disappointment when the family try to view them on corrupted media.

Good luck!

I'm guessing copious amounts of alcohol will faithfully recreate that effect for you - ably assisted by that delightful young Belgian lady called Stella!!

It seems that more and more competitions these days requires entrants to participate via Facebook - from Ricoh Pentax, to Tennents Lager, to Visit Cairngorms, and I also notice that Mirror Group Newspapers require that anybody wishing to comment on news articles on their websites can only do so by granting MGN access to your profile in Facebook too!! It seems that Facebook has more control over our lives than we realise, and I can see the day coming when Mark Zuckerburg (FB founder) feels the backlash. Anybody with a Facebook account is gonna realise just how intrusive and manipulative it is when they attempt to permanently delete their profile!

I'll stick to competitions on sites such as this, where I still have freedom of choice and a greater degree of control of personal information, thanks!

Welcome to the site, Clover!

Firstly - welcome, John!!...

As for the Android app - I haven't heard of such an app. The closest thing I can think of is the Flickr app, but as far as I'm aware, it only allows mass uploading of files, browse your photostream, etc, but not live view. Have a look in the App Garden on the Flickr site though - there could well be something there.