I cannot remember the name but there is one shop near the top of TCR near Warren Street which has a load of Pentax stuff in the window.

The other day I was at dinner with my girlfriend's family taking photos of the cutting of the birthday cake. One of the guests said "Pentax? Never heard of it. I have a Nikon..."

Oh well.

Best wishes, Kris.

The K200D has no live view feature, you have to look through the viewfinder!

With an SLR like the K200D the mirror is in front of the sensor and so you do not get live view like a compact camera unless you indulge in some pretty fiddly engineering.

Best wishes, Kris.

Welcome to the fora.

Best wishes, Kris.

Welcome to the fora.

Best wishes, Kris.

Picassa 3 will certainly view Pentax K10D RAW files. There are GIMP users on here who will advise re: using that for RAW conversion. A very very good RAW converter which is quite cheap (and a free month trial is available) is Silkypix. Many BIG fans of that package here, and possibly/probably better RAW converter than the Adobe products.

Cheers, Kris.

£645 from SRS with £50 cashback makes £595 new with two years warranty. Applying the two-thirds rule (well suggestion really), probably about £400 would be the going price?

Just guessing wildly in the dark here!

What are you hoping to buy with all this cash?

Cheers, Kris.

Blimey. I didn't expect to see someone selling one of these. I wouldn't part with mine for all the tea in china.

Good luck!

Best wishes, Kris.

I find lightroom (ver. 1.4, now out of date) a good tool for managing my workflow but it is pricey and not everyone likes it. It is great if you do not intend to try and move stuff around once it is in Lightroom, it is lousy at just moving stuff about (one would have thought drag and drop directory management wouldn't be beyond Adobe!) Most of my editing is done in Lightroom, with only the occasional dump into Photoshop needed for anything more fancy. One good thing is that it is non-destructive, i.e. your original file remains untouched (although it does make a copy when you swap to PS) and then when you "export" the file it writes the new version, edits and all.

Best wishes, Kris.

As with all electronic goods, the prices fall very quickly as newer models and new competitors are launched. You might have better luck later in the year when the effect of the weak pound has worked into the system. Sadly, apart from a few jewels like the Ltd edition lenses, camera equipment is not an investment that holds its value well.

Best wishes, Kris.

HDR = High Dynamic Range. One takes a set of photographs at different exposures (e.g. at recommended exposure, +1 stop and -1 stop) and then uses a specialized piece of software to firstly map the image as a 48bit image, then to "tone map" it back to a 16/8 bit image. It is a way of dealing with situations where the light and dark areas of a scene are greater than the range than can be captured by the sensor. It can be used to make quite realistic shots like those here (lovely by the way, not overdone at all) or they can be very surreal.

Cheers, Kris.