Month: January 2013

Mending my Ricoh 500G

Mending my Ricoh 500G

Reading Time: 4 minutes I recently got hold of a little Ricoh 500G from the local car-boot sale. The shutter and lens were all in good nick, but there was a crack to the viewfinder covering, and when I opened it I was met by sticky black pile of 

The Demise of Jessops

The Demise of Jessops

Reading Time: 3 minutes …when I paid, the spotty adolescent fool working there tried making conversation about prime lenses, getting it all wrong and thus showing his ignorance, and then aggressively tried to sell me extended cover based on incorrect ‘knowledge’ he had about my current insurance policy. Which of course now may have been useless anyway.

So what this collapse basically means for me is I have lost (most likely) the protection of the Sale of Goods Act over my purchase…