Absolutely, there's far too much of that at the moment.

Typically, I suppose, an amateur with lots of good quality kit, made redundant, unable to find work, needing to keep on paying the bills, is going to look at things that can be done.

Logically, photography is possible. Unfortunately there are too many people willing to work for nothing or very little and it makes it much harder to make a proper living that covers the cost of proper insurance, etc.

Skill is something else. Amateur or Professional, we know some have it and some don't.

I would phone SRS and they will advise how best to return the camera. I'm sure they'll sort it out to your satisfaction.

Link repaired dinneenp.

Thanks Gwyn. I think there will be at least some overlap as the owners are a bit nocturnal as well. They will be especially so when their baby arrives.

I've made this a sticky fo a while, so it will stay up in the forum and not get lost down the list.

Your link is wrong Neil, but please don't post the info in every thread, we can find your post without that!

Er, Nigel even, sorry about that.....

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Yes, that's how it works.

This has developed into a lens chat so I've moved it into lenses.

I haven't seen a 24-90mm for sale for a long time. I did have one once and it's an excellent lens, but I never found 24-90mm to be useful on digital. I was going to use it with the 12-24mm, but unfortunately all my image making was around the overlap area, so I was forever changing lenses.

The 18-135mm serves me much better, and has the crisp look that I like.