dave

You pretty well describe British Butterfly Conservations premier site at Alners Gorse. A row of elms with 6ft high brambles at the foot, and a row of smallish oaks on the other side of the track ...

yes that's correct the dropped one showed no lens error message and switching the VR off in the menu removed the problem the second one showed a lens error message beyond 250mm but no vibration or ...

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hang on a minute i'll get my engraving tool out and get mine up to 22,726 :-D

That is an excellent number, I wish we had that many. We've Buddleja and Seedems but I don't recall more  than 10. You're very lucky to get white letter hairstreaks we have to drive 40 miles for a ...

You obviously have trouble with comprehension I've said the same already OK make it 90 if you like Idiotic-people do not complain about non failure, but taking your order of magnitude you insisted ...

That's interesting Stefan , Allthough I only managed to find 9 incidences of failure on line and accept that there will obviously be more, It's quite likely that some of these failures will be the ...

Thanks for that info, it certainly makes the probable failure rate much lower than I estimated. As a matter of interest are the first 3 digits your  10 digit number 221? A number of people have ...

That is covered by a product recall where Nikon, free of charge, including postage both ways, will repair any lens new or second hand. This is still in place today. My daughter's failed when she ...

So the number who have had problems, would represent a minute fraction of  1% of the number of lenses made ? Dave

Some have called me a troll, fortunately I'm an old troll with a very long memory. This was covered in detail 6 years ago. The maximum weight that should be attached to the 1 series bodies is ...

For the last three weeks we've had male and female Bullfinches in the garden to feed and bathe in our waterfall. Today this youngster turned up, bit forlorn in the rain and couldn't work out how ...

Very nice images Paul, excellent isolation shows you chose your view point carefully. My first foray into wildlife photography was butterflies in the mid 1980. We lived in Dorset  at the time which ...

I have been reading this forum from day 1 and I can assure you that there are trolls on this forum but none have replied to this thread yet, Im still waiting. Known figure from Nikon serial ...

Hi Bob, no problems, I actually did think that you "precis" comment was quite appropriate. It's taught me I might need to be more careful what I write in the future :-) My comments about trolls was ...

HI Stefan At the moment the Sterling/Euro conversion rate is pretty awful (Brexit) but using todays rate the repairs cost 442 Euro which agrees pretty well with your figure. I appreciate that you ...

fair comment I deserve that one Also, this is a rather 'specialized' forum. Showing us a pile of equipment is not as meaningful as being a regular poster. I have been a poster on these forums for ...

Very often trolls make rubbish post about equipment they don't own, so to establish my bona fides Im attaching a pic of our current CX gear that i took yesterday to show that I actually do have a ...