Thanks for your reply. Really appreciate it. I will give it a go tomorrow.

the command I ran was:

easy_install --user picamera

Hi, Sorry, I ran it in the command line and all seemed fine since this is what came back: Searching for picamera Reading http://pypi.python.org/simple/picamera/ Best match: picamera 0.4 Downloading https://pypi.python.org/packages/source/p/picamera/picamera-0.4.tar.gz#md5=ad4a818d8d7c2ae545e680d00b1...

HI,
I downloaded the easy install but when I go into python and type import picamera I get the following:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<pyshell#1>", line 1, in <module>
import picamera
ImportError: No module named picamera

Dont know what I am doing wrong.

Great! Today was a really helpful and productive day thanks to you! Your post help me understand many issues. Thanks so much for your quick replies. I'll keep trying to make this work for my project but this was really a great step forward.

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