Nikon Customer Services

Uninspiring is the best word I can use so far. I sent it by parcel and it arrived on a Friday morning at 8.40am. However it took until Wednesday afternoon before is was confirmed as having been received. It is now the Monday following and all it says is "awaiting repair". Maybe I am good at moaning but I have only had the camera for about three months and I am pissed off that it has already developed two faults. Ok rant over

Ramsgate or Siberia?

Well I appreciate these are now four months out of date but I am having a little house cleaning effort and thought I would post up the photos I quite like.

This was an attempt to get to work one morning. All the main routes were blocked, so intelligence failed to prevail and we thought a small road up a hill in a field would be the obvious way out. As you can see from the van in front, people coming from the other direction had the same idea.

A friend behind me had a less suitable car than mine and as the conditions started to get worse, I decided to bravely take photos from my car while everyone else tried to dig and push him out.

Heh heh

Oscar

This is one of our handsome kittens. Actually he is a cat now but I took this with the Olympus e410 some time ago. I would like to describe him as affectionate and loving, but really he is just jealous of his sister who catches birds and mice with ease.

My camera

Well after bleating on about the virtues of the Nikon D90 and how it would make me tea in the morning as well as composing my shots for me, it instead decided to develop a couple of faults and fail.

Some detective work on google reveals that one of the problems is very well known. The Lens has a tendency to drift slightly away from the contacts which results in an error. This has to be fixed by wiggling the lens or simply removing it and replacing it. Not rocket science but seems to me that's hardly the point on a two and a half month old camera.

The other problem has been stranger and not one I can live with. Any photo taken in the the sun in any direction comes out almost black. Using auto with re-set settings has not fixed this and yet the exposure is fine in the shade. Equally strange is that at full zoom it works fine in the sunlight.

So I now have to send it away. Apparently this may take 10 days and I get to pay for the postage. What a great system I don't think.

Still lets see what comes back.