Only by wiping the machine and reinstalling everything from scratch.

Best wishes, Kris.

You have to learn to do without oxygen...

A fiend-ishly nice photo.

Sorry, I couldn't resist.

Best wishes, Kris.

I had a cheapo Epson that did exactly the same thing. It ended up in the bin! You may well have to send it back to Epson for a service.

Sorry!

Best wishes, Kris.

Have you thought of buying a big box of lego and then selling "focus testing kits" on ebay?

I'll be raiding someone's toy box soon...

Best wishes, Kris.

Despite being unsure if having two competitions at the same time is a good thing or not I have made some comments on the entries so far just to get the ball rolling.

Best wishes, Kris.

Argee.
Generally love the shot but slightly off put by the burnt out sun. Not sure how one would get around this without using some form of HDR program or graduated ND filters.

Hyram
I love the dramatic sky (polariser I assume) but I am not a great fan of bendy horizons (although that is just a matter of taste not technique).

Belinda B.
It is nice to see a bit of rolling English countryside. My main problem with this shot is the yellows of the cornfields are just too bright and in your face, a bit too unreal. I would also try and pull out the detail in the foreground shadows a little. A bit of subtle editing in photoshop could make this a lovely and evocative shot.

Josh. This photo doesn't really seem to have much of a focus point. Nothing really draws my eye into the photograph and I am not sure what I am supposed to be looking at. Perhaps a different viewpoint could have made the various linear features in the shot lead ones eye to sea?

Which one did you go for? The katzeye is expensive but gets good reviews, mixed thoughts out there on the cheapo HK imports.

Cheers, Kris

I have been trying to think of a pun on "shed" but failed so far...

As far as one can tell over the web, a very nice lens. And some pretty good photos too

Best wishes, Kris.

I only use that preview thing for checking exposure (there is a menu for DOF preview or preview on the screen) and then only on things that don't move --- it gives you the over-exposed warning on the image so you can see if you care or not. For things that move I do what Peter suggests, take the shot, then check it, then if the wotsit is still there take another and so on. For flowers, I'll sometimes take a sequence of shots at different apertures then pick the one I like in the comfort of my study. But then flowers don't fly away, although I have had petals fall off

Best wishes, Kris.