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Lastly I'm totally out of time for hanging around with my camera, but I want to write about my little software discovery. Since i switched to Linux, i was missing software for RAW files. I tried photivo and rawtherapee, but it was slow and frustrating (RT likes to crash frequently with pentax files). I started loosing hope but then: I found darktable - http://www.darktable.org/ From DT website: "darktable is an open source photography workflow application and RAW developer. A virtual lighttable and darkroom for photographers. It manages your digital negatives in a database, lets you view them through a zoomable lighttable and enables you to

boom! ;] __ proud to be member of #pentaxda (https://www.deviantart.com/pentaxda) :iconpolska: :iconphotographersclub: ;-) btw: permission granted for photographersclub and other clubs (if needed) to submit my photos.

yeah! my new digital camera is wonderful! small and fast - what's most important for me - and with optical image stabilization - and belive or not -  it makes a difference, when shoot time is less than 1/50 s. canon a710 has also amazing software called "chdk" (it isn't official firmware, but works well and is released as open source software ;P). now i can use live histogram, live zebra mode (shows too dark and burned parts of picture) and i'm able to save images in RAW format, what can be very useful (now i have to find good software to manipulate a raw files) : D. chdk is also able to work with small scripts written in ubasic - you can