There are loads of threads on the other forum and also on Zeiss
forums criticising DXO's lens testing. This one is current about the
DA40 f/2.8 LTD link
It seems the DXO tests contradict Photozones and SLRGears tests.

Maybe if it had had Nikon stamped on it it would have done
better

Gary the two 21mm photos you posted look fine

DxO lens tests are known to be a bit strange and Gary likes
to have a dig at Pentax every now and then

I would just ignore them

Well they will have to pay a lot more now after you
pointing the auction out!

Great!.... I like the 2nd best, which shows that with macro you don't always have to get as close as possible for the best shot.

You are probably better moving any CD/DVD drives right out of the
way by assigning them to something like S and T

Plug all your drives in if possible before booting the PC.

Card readers are better if they only contain enough card slots
to cover what you will actaually use i.e. if you only use SDHC
just a single slot card reader will do. Unfortunately it's hard
to find a decent single slot card reader, so a dual slot is
OK especially if it's a Sandisk Extreme or a Lexar.

With a FAT32 drive Windows looks to see if there are any Primary partitions first and will give that partition a high drive letter. On removable drives it's better not to have any Primary partitions.... just have one Extended partition split into whatever Logical partitions you want. These should be given letters further down the alphabet.

johnwhit has already explained how to change the drive letters.

You haven't given the link Bernard

I only watched the first one. It's watchable, but apart from
being new photos taken from approximately the same place as the
Frith ones I can't see much point in it, so I haven't gone out
of my way to watch anymore episodes.

A series about Frith similar to the one they did about Ansel
Adams would be very interesting.

It actually came out best in tests for zooms of that
range.

No problems with the Super-A, it was actually made for that camera.

Shouldn't be any problems. It's probably got the Ricoh pin, but it's the rounded end type and rarely causes any problems.

The 18-55mm Kit Lens is a better lens.

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