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Tamron Di-II SP AF17-50mm F/2.8 XR LD Aspherical (IF)

So I got a new lens for my D80 after a while. I figured out that it's time to get a good low light zoom. The Nikon 17-55 would be the original alternative, but it's more than I want to spend and it's also big and heavy. I bought the version with the AF-motor, but that really means nothing. AF performance is nothing to write home about. It is slow, noisy and sometimes behaves wrong. I find Sigma's AF and HSM generally better. Since I don't own a single Nikon AF-S lens I can't say anything about that. I like however the size of this lens and the weight and of course the price: At less than 400€ it's a good choice. Resolution is also very good from 2.8 onwards.

Has anybody a solution to this problem? It's driving me crazy.

Windows has a "nice" feature to slow you down automatically when you want to work too fast. So that you don't be too productive. An everyday task that you do on with the graphical user interface is scrolling. In Windows you first select the scrollable control and then turn the mouse wheel to scroll up or down. When you're fast enough however Windows will reset the scroll position. If you click into the control and immediately scroll so that the selected element disappears from the current list, the view is reset to include the just selected element.

You can try it like this: Open the task manager and there the processes tab and resize it so that you have to scroll. Sort the processes by name. Make sure you have no processes quitting or starting in the meantime, so that the content of the list stays the same. Now select the top most element (or the 2nd to top if the top is already selected) and immediately after you selected it scroll down. Watch how the scroll position is reset to the top most position. But when you click, wait a while, and then scroll down you get the desired result.

ARGH!

(Please no suggestions to turn to Mac/Linux)