Just pulled in from the shopping run. We are doing a Costco roti chicken with oven roasted potatoes and a garden salad.
Just had a vary curious and excellent transaction with Amazon. I had ordered a new camera body (time for a technology refresh after four years with a D90).
The new body arrived sans one cable. Hmmm... Didn't think that much of it and proceeded to mount a lens and take some photos. At this time, I noticed two rather obvious gouges on the right side of the body.
Whenever a Nikon camera takes a photo, it stores a lot of other information in the photos file, one of which is the number of shutter actuations. For a new body, this should be about five - definitely under ten.
This puppy was just under 800 shutter actuations. My guess is that someone at Amazon 'borrowed' it for a weekend of shooting, failed to repack it properly and damaged it. They thought they could slip-stream it back into the inventory without anyone being the wiser. Bzzzzztttt!!!
Anyway, this was Friday, I used the website to get a return and exchange, wrote a short note outlining what had happened and was pleasantly surprised to get a nice email in reply that Saturday saying that new body had been shipped out for Monday delivery.
It was waiting here for me when I got back today. Amazon seriously rocks...
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