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<\/a>This year’s event is next weekend, and after a bit of a delay, then looking like it had sold out, \u00a0my photographer mate who wandered around the photography show with me back in March (who, after considerable debate, is now the proud owner of a Nikon Z8) \u00a0and myself are joining in this year’s walk. \u00a0Hence, with a week to go, I pulled the Nikon FG out of the relevant gadget bag, fitted new batteries and…..nada. \u00a0Dead as the proverbial dodo. \u00a0Checked batteries, work fine in another camera, checked in the FG battery compartment; Oh!<\/p>\n Mysteriously, the bottom of the battery compartment has disintegrated, most of it dropped on the floor when I tipped the camera up. \u00a0With nothing to secure it, the battery contact doesn’t apply pressure to the battery pack and hence, one inoperative camera. \u00a0After popping the bottom off the FG, it’s not the simple fix it might be either, the screws for the battery compartment as a whole unit, are accessed only after lengthy dismantling of the rest of the internals. So despite being able to get the requisite part for $10 (used) from eBay in the US, \u00a0it’s now on eBay in the UK as spares or repair. \u00a0Consequently, this year’s photo walk will be done using either an Olympus OM40, or the latest Yashica FX-D I’ve renovated, providing I get the scans back of the first roll of film I’ve run through it before the event.<\/p>\n Final frustration, the very nice and slightly expensive car I bought last year. \u00a0I have what may be called an “engineer’s ear”, \u00a0one that can hear rattles, knocking, \u00a0mains hum and other mechanical or electrical sounds. \u00a0The very quiet and occasional rattle I picked up on the car, I put down to probably one of the heat shields for the exhaust corroding on the attachment points, as they do, due to road salt. \u00a0However, the car went for a service last week and they called back once to say the service in general was fine, with a couple of advisories, that I elected to have done. \u00a0Then a while later, and sounding rather sheepish, they said they’d had a fault code pop up, and I needed a new turbo! \u00a0My rattle was actually the turbo waste gate, as the actuator is duff. So four figures for the unit itself and the same again to rip a large number of parts off the car to actually fit it, and return said parts from whence they came. \u00a0I am now awaiting the verdict of the warranty company and their independent assessor.<\/p>\n Shutter therapy definitely needed!<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I’ve had the first layout copy of Volume 2 back to go through and it’s looking well. \u00a0Added to which, I was sorting through some books I’d bought as research material for \u00a0what would have been the next book, and one unexpectedly provided some additional info for Vol.2 that I managed to condense into a … <\/p>\n<\/a><\/a>