When browsing the forums when I click the return to forum button very often I have to wait to be "Re-connected". Sometimes it's quicker to close the browser down and resstart from the Home page, I have pentax user as my first page when the brower is opened., but even then it doesn't alway connect. Anyone else having this "problem"

Amen

Not many in my region, I think there is a Pentax owner (doesn't show images etc) in the local camera club

Unfortunately my post code lottery win was only £10 and not the £1100 my double vision led me to believe

Went for the plus option and won a camera in the quarterly competition, Hooked

Thanks again for all the replies and sugestions. I have downloaded fastone and tried it and no doubt I will be looking at other programs too. Two things I liked about picasa was their straightening tool and slide show.

Thanks for the feedback on this. I seem to recall using fastone a while ago so will give it another look. I'd used picasa for so long it was the first choice to view images. I did find the windows picture viewer handy for viewing before and after images side by side. I'm at the start of sorting my images out on to a dedicated drive (there will be a lot to delete too) with a view to learning lightroom so will try the fastone and windows app. I've never been an organised person so wish me luck.

I used to use PICASA for viewing raw images before going any further with them. I liked the slideshow feature. Now PICASA is no more and Google are plugging Google Pictures. I've not looked at this and was wondering if anyone else has and what do people think of this

500gb SSD. 4TB external drive, Filter holder and a couple of filters. Can now perhaps get my photographs organised. Hope everyone had a quiet and enjoyable Christmas as Liz and I did.

Have been tempted to try pinhole after a presentation by Steve Goslin Gosling but some how never got anything up and running. Maybe next year