It's strange that with all the concern over alcohol consumption,
the government don't require calories to be shown on beer cans.
Surely just knowing how many calories people were drinking would
result in a reduction in alcohol consumption

As David Frost once said:
In the spring a young man's fancy..
In the summer he's he's even fancier still.

Price is too high Kerso has the lens new for £425
and ebay is very unforgiving with people who can't
copy the lens description off either the lens itself
or the box it came in..... It usually turns out to be
an expensive mistake/lesson

It's Pentax 15mm NOT 15 mm everyone searching for this
lens would have used Pentax 15mm The seller was very
lucky that someone didn't snatch this up as a massive bargain

Truly great shots! The dark sky has helped preserve a lot
of detail. Great lens!

That's tough HG.... broken leg after falling only two steps.
My best wishes for a speedy recovery to both of you.

You will have to keep off the beer until she's fit... we
don't want you falling over as well!

You have to set your camera up 1st at 25x from the wall.
For a 50mm that would be 1.250m set it square and level with
the centre of your middle card. Place the other cards by
trial and error looking through the viewfinder. The four
corner ones first...... that should probably be enough.

You can put the others centre/edge as you have shown, but
that's a bit too critical. Normally you would look closely
at the centre one, maybe read off the sharpest number that
is visible. Then just a quick look at the four corners to
see if there is much difference.

I'm not sure where the extra 2 go. I would only use 5
anyway. There just isn't time to go into too much detail
in a lens test, especially if you are testing say 3 lenses
at the same time. The centre one usually indicates the best
aperture/lens.

If the whole chart is still clear at 25x try 50x or
whatever distance you can get back.

Not seen that one before. It looks to be similar to the normally used U.S.A.F. chart, but white on black rather than black on white.

You can still use it, but without the instructions, the results can't be compared with other peoples figs, which is possibly a good thing. Interpretations do vary

Test charts are usually shot at 25x the focal length of the lens measured from the film plane marker. Sometimes it's 50x, but that means getting back quite a distance.

I prefer using flash to avoid any camera shake.

Who else releases details of their cameras if they don't?

Is that also what Ratner said?

Pentax have been sold to Cadbury's anyway the next camera
will be made of Chocolate!

Very bad taste and not funny.
Will probably send a few people across to Canikon

About the same mentality as G. Ratner when he said his
jewelry was crap!
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Sorted eventually in about 30 seconds

There was a phone number on the bill where you can actually
SPEAK TO A PERSON! she was very good as well....
just took down my account no...card no.... expiry date....
no. on back of card.... amount and that was it done

Why does the website require you to:
Resister first.
(Cut & Paste disabled on the boxes for some reason Argh!!!)
Fill in email addy
Fill in email addy again
Enter a password
Supply mothers maiden name.
Fill in name and full address by fitting 5 lines into 4
Telephone number
Mobile number
Account number
Bill ref. number
Wait for confirmation email
Go through confirmation procedure
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The above will be changed by next year so it's no use really
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Look through site for hard to find "Pay Us Some Money" button
Login:
Fill in email addy
Enter a password

"Says you've entered it wrong"

Go to another part "Pay by Credit Card"

LOOP: Begin Payment by Credit Card
Fill in Bill ref. number
Fill in Account number
Fill in name and full address
Fill in card number...
Fill in expiry date....
Fill in number on back of card....
Fill in Amount

Site says it has a problem with card... Repeat "LOOP: Begin Payment by Credit Card"

After going through the loop 3 times it kicks you off!

I even tried paying via Barclays, but that's another story
asked me questions I couldn't answer such as was the reference
in the format "xxxxxxxxx" or "xxxxxxxxxxx" I think they meant
the reference I was going to use, but I hadn't got a clue what
that was so I logged off. They then asked me 50 questions
about what I thought of the service? (must be wondering why
so many people are leaving).

I don't know how I'd manage if I wasn't computer savvy

I taxed the car online yesterday and the DVLA site is brilliant 10/10