Tim - I run iPhoto 8.1.2 which is iPhoto09. I checked for ' RAW' cameras supported and it gave a huge list BUT against the K-x were 2 asterisks - and when I checked at the bottom of the page this is what was stated

Welcome to PUF Jules.

Have you thought of approaching SRS - our favourite retailer re your camera problems ?

As well as being very very helpful re Pentax gear [ which is why we like him and of course the free postage he gives us PUF folk when we provide our Forum nik ] he also deals with other makes and has lots of pre-loved gear for sale.

You may well manage to do reasonably well that way

Gwyn

Why go to RAW - well since I can't get out and take photos at present [ blasted weather and also trying to get on in the house making some very very expensive and necessary changes ] I would have time in the evenings to sit at my MacBook and fiddle with my pictures

Take today - a charity were supposed to be coming to uplift some furniture [ quite a lot actually ] between 10 and 3 - so I couldn't leave the house - I'm still waiting and there has been no phone call

That makes three of us on this thread

George - nowt wrong with my thinking I assure you

Silkypix and a Nikon - yes there is a link - the tutor uses a Nikon - if it's like the last class I'm the only Pentax user there and only the Tutor and I use Macs . If I need help using Silkypix - he can't help .

I do not , as I have already said , learn easily on my own . I do better sitting with someone and doing things under guidance till I'm happy/confident that I won't break things. I already have the habit of never working on the original shot in iPhoto - I always duplicate it and work on the duplicate, so the original is there untouched in case things do go wrong . Belt and Braces - that's me

Don - to my imperfect knowledge iPhoto doesn't open RAW [ I'm willing to be proved wrong ] BUT since Aperture is from Apple there will be some similarities in the appearance of iPhoto and Aperture .

Pentaxohpile - I seem to have a mental block about PSE - can't see why, but I have and sadly there seems to be a lot of emphasis on it in the College . Manipulations like changing the sky completely in a shot as pp work [ ie cloning it out and totally substituting another from a collection of sky shots ] to me seems sort of unethical - it's cheating - it's not a photograph but a bit of art

OK - I think the time is coming when I will have to decide how I progress.

Now at present I'm shooting in JPEG . I fully realise that should I change to shooting in RAW I will not be able to use iPhoto as at present , and this will force me over to using PS or PSE for final editing after I have had the shot in either Aperture or Lightroom.

I realise I could use SilkyPix BUT if I head back to College again for the new term - the tutor is not going to have a clue about SilkyPix [ he has a large Nikon ] and as I do not learn easily on my own , this would seem to be pushing me towards Aperture [ nice Mac programme ] or Lightroom [ from the Adobe stable ] I do have PSE 6 on the MacBook Pro at present

Comments and advice welcomed .

Hope you remembered to ask them for an International Warranty - if not email Chris

I often wonder just why , in places where rain can be a problem there are such things as flat roofs .

It may be OK where rain is not such a problem - - but in Europe ??

OH DEAR - re the roof .

Best of luck with getting it fixed ASAP