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A revised version based on welcome comments. Thank you

Trafford2, No problem with your stab at my shot. It certainly does improve it. The shot was already heavily PPd from RAW. The birds were about 40ft away and the sun was coming from behind the tree. ...

We were in a rented cottage in Lincolnshire (UK) . These two birds were nesting over the doorway in a climbing rose bush.  I didn't realise that I had caught two of them until I opened the file. ...

This one was shot from a hide in the Forest of Dean. The bird visited two spots regularly so I set up the tripod and waited. Of course there were no humans to distrurb him. Eric

Grasshopper at rest  ........ ..... and primed for take-off Eric

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Jim,  I am just trying to understand why the RAW thumbnails in Picasa and in FSTIV are different. How can I tell whether I am seeing a thumbnail of the RAW file or its embedded JPEG? In both ...

Please ignore that last post!! Eric

The images are 12MB in both Picasa and FSTIV. Eric

Thank you John for reminding me about the Faststone setttings. I am still puzzled by two things. First you and Jim can see the dark corners in FSIV but I cannot and second why can I see them in ...

Jim, After reading your last post I opened a recent set of RAW files in Faststone and in Picasa 3 using the folder display (multiple images). The short focal length (wide angle) ones showed the ...

Jim, If your FZ330 is like my FXZ200 you will find that the dark corners of un-developed RAW images only affect the shots at 5mm or lower and that the Silkypix default settings eliminate it ...

Thanls Spike29. That has brought us full circle to my staring post on this thread. I am probably older that Old Jim and I am d... d if i am going to upgrade my ancient XP. If I did that I would ...

Thanks Doug. I was so enthralled taking the shots and many more that I forgot to note the names of the birds. Eric

But are they all singing from the same hymn sheet? Eric

UK National Birds of Prey Centre. Peregrine Falcon Little Owl ?? Vulture ?? Vulture Whit-tailed Eagle Barn Owl Eric Peregrine Falcon All shot in RAW ... then Silkypix Glad to receive bird names ...

Spike 29 that is exactly what I was thinking too and why I am disappointed that I could not do it with my Win XP if I bought the FZ330. I would have to go back to Jpeg only or downgrade to SP4.3SE.. ...

Looking at Jim's original post I am puzzled by what we are calling distortion . The two posts to the right of the second (furthest) tree by the building on the right of the image appear to be ...

I had read somewhere on DPR that Faststone produces a very small file size and thus the image will have lost information after processing there. That is one of the reasons I wanted to stick wwith ...

I have downloaded v4.3(plus update)  I have to admit that it is not as crippled as I had expected but there are several greyed-out functions compared with vPRO5 including batch development and ...