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An old one of my daughter feeding the ducks. Taken with Canon EOS 500. Tally-Feeding-Ducks by Matt Solomon - Photographer, on Flickr

That reminds me... really must get my patio fixed. Fred was awesome at slabs.. bless him.

I'd never use a lens cloth-just dont like the chance of a bit of dirt collecting on it and then scratching the lens. So I use these: You just dispose of them after each use-so you use a new clean cloth every time-so no chance of scratching. They are designed for cleaning negatives-so...

I have the older 7200, bought it when it was brand new out-as I was shooting film back then. Even though it was cheap by comparison to the nikon/canon film scanners, I have never been dissapointed with it-and havent seen a flatbed scanner to match it yet.

ok fair nuf. I used to be in charge of installing and maintaining vista on 500+ machines, so I have experience of its problems-so wasnt a flippant comment I assure you. As much as I hate to say it about a microsoft product-Windows 7 is actually pretty good! It still has a few issues, far...

good one- might be worth looking into, as it does sound more of a graphics issue.

pity-vista is crap! I wouldnt bother with the dell disk-unless they have changed in the last couple of years, dell discs used to just restore your computer to how it was "straight out of the box". So they would delete all your personal files!

All of above. Also most pc's come with on board graphics as well as a graphics card. So to rule out the graphics card as the problem, open up the pc, remove the graphics card, then plug monitor into the motherboards digital/vga connector (this is the on-board graphics). If you are not...

glad we sorted it-hope they give you a refund.

Just researched a bit-looks like the 400d should be able to handle it, but format the card in Windows anyway-just to try. You may even have a duff or dodgy card - as there are a lot of fakes out there.

Have you tried formatting it via windows? As some cameras have a limit on what size cards they can take-so doing this would rule the camera out.

As above-the canon is better quality than the Tamron.