Splash. The cash.
Day three of our time in Norway was going to be split with the first half of the day at a place in Rondane called Peer Gynt hytta, before we'd head off in the car to Jotunheimen for the afternoon.
I'm starting off with this picture which sort of turned out to be my last picture. At least my last picture with my 70-200mm lens before it died on me. The rotten luck! Soon after this photo was taken I was trying to frame another composition when the lens stopped focusing. Nothing I could do would make it work :( I discovered I could still focus manually whilst using the camera's screen to zoom in on my focus point. However the lens would then "drift" out of focus quite quickly meaning, at best, I could take two photos before needing to refocus. All a tad annoying when you're on a five day photo trip to an amazing place! So that was my knee and now my lens that had packed up on me lol.
Once I got back to Sweden I sent the lens off for repair and I must say the small private company Tamron uses here in Sweden for repairs was top notch. Turned out the auto focus motor and some electronics packed in but have been fixed now so all's good! Still wasn't cheap and the timing of it was the worst but hey ho...
Splash. The cash.
Day three of our time in Norway was going to be split with the first half of the day at a place in Rondane called Peer Gynt hytta, before we'd head off in the car to Jotunheimen for the afternoon.
I'm starting off with this picture which sort of turned out to be my last picture. At least my last picture with my 70-200mm lens before it died on me. The rotten luck! Soon after this photo was taken I was trying to frame another composition when the lens stopped focusing. Nothing I could do would make it work :( I discovered I could still focus manually whilst using the camera's screen to zoom in on my focus point. However the lens would then "drift" out of focus quite quickly meaning, at best, I could take two photos before needing to refocus. All a tad annoying when you're on a five day photo trip to an amazing place! So that was my knee and now my lens that had packed up on me lol.
Once I got back to Sweden I sent the lens off for repair and I must say the small private company Tamron uses here in Sweden for repairs was top notch. Turned out the auto focus motor and some electronics packed in but have been fixed now so all's good! Still wasn't cheap and the timing of it was the worst but hey ho...