Cheltenham scenes

I was in Cheltenham this afternoon with a fellow photographer who was due to collect his Panasonic Leica 100-400mm lens after it had been back following dust issues - alas the supposed new lens replacement also had dust issue so back it goes!!!

We took a little time to walk around and grab some street shots as well and were eventually defeated by torrential rain.

The D500 did a stirling job as usual and I restricted myself to just the 50mm f1.8 - great combo for street work.

Lovely street scenes,it was the 100-400 that made me leave m4/3,mine developed a very bad headache Panasonic said straight away on inspection they would replace it,after 5 weeks still no lens,the gear is great but they need to sort out the back up.

Thanks Mike,

I had bad experiences with my two Fuji's that in turn led me to trade them in and go back to Nikon - absolutely no regrets.

There must be some questions to answer regarding quality control in both Panasonic & Fuji manufacturing as well as repair and as good as the cameras are and my enjoyment of them they just did not meet my requirements for sport / wildlife / airshows but were perfect for street and documentary but alas I had to let them go (still have the X100s and X70 that I will keep).

I just hope Nikon maintain their high standards and quality control as well as a UK repair centre ............just in case!

I do understand there is no Nikon Field Sales Rep in the UK anymore but not sure?

Very nice! We were near Cheltenham last February but I never saw any of those areas. We stayed outside of town at Ellenborough Park and did a lot of country walking. We did go into town to have dinner at Lumiere, but honestly the dinner at Ellenborough was the best meal of the whole London/Cotswolds trip.

Thanks Blade Canyon,

It is a very nice city with lots of Edwardian and Georgian buildings and some good shopping!!

The phone booth gives cash? That's great.

BTW when my husband saw the phone booth he said "Tardis".