I am getting married this year. My future wife and I decided to make the rings ourselves. There are a number of goldsmiths and jewelry designers who offer courses in ringmaking. Today we made the course. It lasted only about 5 hours and in the end we had the rings...
This morning I brought the damaged Nikkor to the Nikon Service. Nikon will assess the damage and check whether it might be a warranty case. If the warranty is acknowledged, I will get back the lens repaired in about 4 weeks. If the warranty is not acknowledged, I will...
I just realised that I blog an awful lot about things which broke or went wrong. What kind of attitude is this ? More positive posts in the future, promised. Today the replacement cable for my Solmeta geotagger arived. I ordered two pieces in case another mishap...
It’s a week-end full of grief and despair later because of the defect lens I got on eBay (24-70 f2.8 Nikkor with a supposedly bent inner tube => zooming not possible) I exchanged a couple of emails with the seller. It was an eBay classic: Seller claims the...
(Why “another” in the title ? Remember my Iphone4 battery problem ?) In an adventureous maneuver I exchanged some lenses. I sold my 17-55mm f2.8 on eBay and bought a 24-70mm f2.8 lens instead. I got the 24-70mm yesterday. It is only half a year old, came...
