It's a truth universally acknowledged that everything breaks at once and does so at the most inconvenient possible time.  Not all that long before we all went in to lockdown one of my cameras starting playing up by freezing and displaying an ' ERR ' signal we photographers all dread.  Not all the time, although typically it would do it at a key moment which would cause me to curse and do the classic 'turn it off and on again' trick (love that one).  The camera, bought in 2014, had already had a new lease on life when I put a new shutter in it so it wasn't like I could complain about it's longevity because it'd done a heck of a lot of work.  However the timing was poor.  Luckily for me Nikon is always there to help, so we sent it off to the doctor and they gave me a loan camera to get me through.  Also displaying an error was my lovely and reasonably new 70-200mm lens.  It turns out the news on the lens was ok because they said it would be covere...

  Admittedly this post has taken me a while to write.  I start. I stop. Then I have to rewrite parts because they become past tense instead of present tense.  New phrases of 2020.  Lockdown. Isolation.  "Iso" as those inclined to abbreviate everything call it. In my french class which I am struggling along with it is called 'Le confinement'.  I'm not doing as well in french because the lockdown means I am not regularly doing my homework sessions with my class buddy Leigh.  Other phrases include WFH (apparently this means Working From Home), SAH (Stay At Home), CAH (Children at Home) - more new acronyms.  Mostly I hate acronyms because apart from the terrific WTF and FYI I can never remember half of them.  The other thing about Lockdown is a growing obsession with numbers! How many news cases have we had and are these numbers stable, falling or rising?  How are other countries going?  How soon until we can ease restrictions?  Wh...