Took advantage of this autumn's UK Heritage Days weekend and visited Letchworth Garden City. Excellent organisation and too much to see in just one day, but what we did see was worth the time and travel.
Unfortunately my very cheapest, and previously reliable, EF lens threw a wobbly. It's the EF 80-200 f4.5-5.6 II, (�40 from the market some time ago), and which I'd taken along for lightness. My 10D threw up the dreaded "Err 99" message which previously I've only seen on Sigma lenses before being re-chipped. One of the aperture blades had acquired a life of its own, and was hanging on its hinge pin in the centre of the light path, as presumably the drive pin had sheared. A few hours later as I started to remove my Sigma 17-35 EX HSM from the 10D, it dropped about 1m to the pavement, landing on its lens mount where there's barely a mark, but it no longer focuses and has clearly suffered severe internal damage. Oh well, good excuse to get the more highly regarded 15-30. Just hope incidents like this don't come in threes! Apart from the above, I came back with lots of good shots and it's fortunate that my EF 28 f2.8 continued working. Malcolm Milton Keynes, UK www.megalith.freeserve.co.uk/oddimage.htm * **** ******* *********************************************************** * For list instructions, including unsubscribe, see: * http://www.a1.nl/phomepag/markerink/eos_list.htm ***********************************************************
