The Site With the Lamp

January 2, 2006

My new year starts off with a broken Sigma lens. This venerable old 300mm was attached all this time to an even older FM 10. The FM 10 was a present from my father during the time I was at Colombo university.

The Old Minolta SLR (I can't remember the model) that used to be the family camera at the time had a breakdown just as I was about to go with the university chess team to Malaysia. I ended up with out any photos at all of that trip. A few weeks after that my father bought me a Nikon FM10. At the time it was a good value for money SLR and heck it's a Nikon.

Then a month ago for my birthday I received a Nikon D70S as a present. It's a lovely camera, I should have blogged about it but didn't because I cannot think of anything bad to say about the camera. I didn't want to write an advertorial for Nikon.

Since getting the D70S I have been taking shots like mad and It took a heavy toll on the Sigma 300. This is actually the third time the lens gave trouble. Once just months after it's purchase one of the aperture blades broke of on a trip to Trincomalee.

Then about an year ago, I had to have the the lenses cleaned due to fungal growth on it (a hazard in these tropics). Now one of the internal screws seem to have come off, and the lense is no longer usable. There is a notable gap of about a millimeter between the zoom ring and the mount. (cannot be seen in the picture).