Great if you can. It is a simple but very effective image especially with the shadow of the plant on the window.

K.

The main thing I like about Lightroom is that it doesn't feel as though you are converting a RAW file to anything. It is just like editing any image (tweak levels, curves, dust spots, sharpening, noise reduction, cropping etc.) and then instead of doing a "save as" (I always keep my original unedited file) you do an export. Best of all, instead of having the original file, the edited full size file, the down-sized for the web file etc. you just have the original RAW file, a tiny sidebar XML file, and whatever exports you need. SOLD to the scruffy man with a beard...

And there is me trying to force myself to delete more due to the silly amounts of disk space my images now occupy. And I only "went digital" in 2007...

More on topic, Lightroom 3 is excellent. K.

Reminded me I hadn't submitted any since July so I have just put some more in myself!

K.

All of my Kodak BW400CN images posted here, on Flickr and accepted into the PPG were scanned by The Darkroom UK. These are their low res scans! The XP2 Plus films I got processed by CVS (a drugstore chain) in the US were dirty, sometimes scratched, and badly scanned. You get what you pay for I guess. Shame really as XP2 is not cheap (unlike the Kodak equivalent) and there were some shots I really liked that were ruined.

For existing negs/slides getting your own scanner is probably the only way to go unless you win the pools.

K.

I use an old Minolta Scan Dual III bought from a forum member. There is a newer model but it is no longer made. The main limitation is that it only does 35mm, not 120 or 5x4.

K.

The Darkroom UK do a good job and you can download a mailing label from their website. Their scans are generally OK. I normally pay for the lo res ones and if anything is worth doing to hi res I do it myself. Scanning to hi res oneself is so slow that it is worth doing it that way round.

I have also used Peak Imaging and they did a good job too.

K.

Stefan, I like the little smile one. Lovely use of natural light and a wide open lens. Very nicely done. K.

Good point. Not one I had thought of as usually my problem is the other way around, i.e., the flash hasn't got the legs.

I think Gwyn has hit the nail on the head. If it feels right then it is the camera for you. Picking up my old ME Supers today reminded me how much I like them, and the fact that I used nothing but an ME Super for about ten years means that I can use them without thinking. I don't even chimp at the back of them when I take a photograph!