ARGOS & A DANNY LA RUE

Right I was wondering what to do as I am at a real loss and do I take the damn thing back and change it for the same, do I change it for something else?!

DO I stick to my guns and hold out in the hope that due to the fact that I know they have wasted 6 months worth of work for them to come up with an offer of some kind to make up for what I have lost?!

You heard the tape and the manageress clearly state that they do not sell it anymore? You heard me say that I had first noticed it was missing on the Android App but on the website it was there and she answered that I must have looked before they updated the website?!

Well I just TOOK that screen-shot mere moments ago and there indeed is my last camera that they do NOT sell anymore now selling for £50 less than I paid for it?!

That would be the Olympus SP-820UZ

EMAILED ARGOS OVER OLYMPUS AND NIKON

Fed up after having first a Nikon that was receieved faulty and now an Olympus taht has gradually become faulty and actually OVERHEATED, much to the shock combined with amusement of friends and family, I have now emailed Argos AGAIN and I want a...

GOD DAMN EXPLANATION!! One that does NOT include BULLSHIT and LIES!

Here is the initial EMAIL which reminds me I also need to email Bionaire and B&Q too!! LMAO!

Also I almost forgot this NEW MODEL Olympus is now MISSING from their catalogue which makes contacting them annoying as their buried email contact is nothing of the kind and is only a webform which they WILL NOT ACCEPT unless you have the damned catalogue number?!?!

NOW WHY WOULD I BLOODY HAVE THAT WHEN THEY DO NOT EVEN USE IT ANYMORE?!?

Jesus the UK seems to be full of morons, lol.

OLYMPUS TRIPPY

Here is a video I did of a male Green Woodpecker and I could see on the monitor screen it was look a bit stuttery so after a few seconds I had to stop and start again.

Fortunately along with all other camera problems I have had all of nature is quite understanding and waits around for the camera to decided whether it wants to film or no, focus or not, overheat or not or just general WORK?!

VIDEO of OLYMPUS SP-820UZ PROBLEMS ARISING

OLYMPIAN CAN'T STAND THE HEAT

While I was it today doing what I consider working above and beyond that most can tolerate my Olympus camera struck again..

While photographing and filming a species of Damselfly called the Banded Demoiselle in a Dragonfly sanctuary something happened I have never come across before for any electronic item.

Mental that tomorrow I have to return a faulty electric fan to B&Q and then look into a very bizarre and extremely worrying fault.

While I was st the sanctuary I first bumped into one couple wielding a Canon SLR, with totally the wrong lens, there for the insects and then an elderly couple who were actually there for the Dragonflies. We talked about the Banded Demoiselles, they told me Gore to sec then which left me confused and they stated they were going to see White Legged Damselflies. I had not seen anything like them and despite the authorities claim of thirty is more like 3. Between the chat to the separate couples I was filming the Damselflies when suddenly the camera started beeping. I looked down and saw a black extern with an icon looking like a camera with the following message...

Camera internals too hot!

Please WAIT for camera to cool down?!

I mentioned it to one of the couples and they said 'of dear, that is bad I never heard of a camera overheating?!' Lol.

I could not believe what I was reading and I thought 'for the love of God, is this fecking for real?!'

I am sure God must be sitting up there with some kind of low powered Electronic Pulse Emitter?! Lol.

Even if I had the money to upgrade my equipment and tools I would be scared to buy anything. I do mean anything too I can't really believe it I have actually had far less trouble with the last 20 used items I have bought.

The funny thing is if a small scale business guy with one store or did a market stall or a car boot sale still sold second hands goods as new he would go to prison no doubts and no questions asked.

So the moral if the story is the more you need the money to survive the greater the punishment.

The lee you need the money they you steal on a very large scale off thousands then there is no punishment whatsoever, lol.

OLYMPUS SP-820 UZ BRIDGE CAMERA

Well here it is! I have taken a few photos of it, including it NOT fitting in the case the Nikon L810 DID fit in but I am not complaining. lol.

You see that tells me it has a far bigger and wider lens and I made the decision based on a couple of webpages I visited which were...

Pocket Lint and in particular...

Steves Digital Cameras if I remember correctly?!

The latter was an impressive site and clearly showed how the Olympus has less noise at an ISO of 800, which is good as low light shots will be better, than the Nikon P510.

Now that I have it I am surprised at how easy it it to use, I did try out the previous SP-810UZ of the CEX fiasco, and it seemed a little harder to use than my Nikon Coolpix S8200 and focusing too was tricky...

This 820 model seems a world away to me than that play I had with the 810 and that getting shots is a great deal easier than the Nikons I had even on maximum zooms?! It also identifies objects in the scene and can choose to focus on one. If it is the wrong one just release the button and press again slightly and it would focus on another and possibly the correct one?!

Nice!

The rear screen is bigger and clearer too making it easier.

Yes it has no view finder but I do not see that as being that big a deal right now if I am honest but maybe I will in time.

The only downsides is that it fells ever so slightly cheap, especially the lens housing, but that feeling is waning. It would have been nice if it had that rubbery wet look finish you normally see on these cameras as the actually overall design is very nice.

Be warned though as I was convinced the camera, from all its photos, was tiny and would easily fit in the hard case I wasted money on for the Nikon L810?! INdeed if I ever get around to putting up the recording of me in the Argos Store getting this you will clearly, or not, hear me state that if I go for this and not the Nikon P510 at least this WILL fit in my hard case?!

Umm it is big only as far as the lens is concerened but that is no bad thing, right?! LOL.

After all its the lens really that is all important with only ease of use coming into play in recent times due to all this automated focusing and zooming.

By the way there are some clever stuff to manipulate you shots taken in the MAGIC setting and drawing in particular I LOVE.

It has a minimal amount of manual control with a P 0Program) Setting but if it had control of at least the aperture and shutter speed it would have been perfect.

I was worried about switching over to this Olympus despite me liking what I had previously seen and read but I am glad now that I did. Friends that run a local store got to see the zoom power of it and were well impressed.

Does not do something annoying the Nikon L810 did in that when you forgot to take the lens cap of the camera did not like it and requested you switch it off and on after removing the cover?!

Bad design and stupid if you ask me. I am used to taking covers off because I have owned several SLRs in 30 years. But a current Nikon Coolpix opens and closes its own cover and I got used to this only to get the L810 and have it want to protrude the lens a little when switching on?! STUPID!

This camera does not move the lens at all on switching on so forgetting to take off the cover is not big deal and does not WASTE precious seconds...

...I only hope that Nikon models with the 20 suffix in them have corrected this bad design fault?!

Unusual for Olympus going for a MODERN design and not making it look like a 1970s camera. Beautiful to look at.

This hard case below I could place the Nikon Coolpix L810 inside and close the case with a snug fit?!

As you can see I could not even come close with the Olympus?! LMAO! You may think that would make the camera far heavier than the Nikon but it is indeed a little lighter in matter of fact.