COLLECTING THE FOURTH FAULTY CAMERA FROM ARGOS

Well anyone who visits and have worked there way through the previous posts should have guessed that when I took the THIRD faulty camera back to ARGOS to exchange it for the exact same camera, but LESS FAULTY, that I would RECORD the visit.

A lady decided to deal with me and a chap that looked, dressed and acted like the manager suddenly went extremely tight lipped and did not utter a word?!

DO you think he may have been warned I had been recording my visits? LMAO!

Well he stayed tight lipped until I was leaving the store and he passed me and said 'thanks, bye' which you can probably pick up on the tape.

SO the models of camera are:

Nikon Coolpix L810

Olympus SP-820UZ

Nikon Coolpix P520

Nikon Coolpix P520

http://www.wuala.com/allnights/Evidence/Evidence%20MP3/Argos%20Part%204.WAV/

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

FANTASTIC NIKON BUT...TROUBLE IN PARADISE

Right OK now I have been out and tested the new Nikon and guess what?

PROBLEMS!

This is really annoying as it is not MUCH of a problem but I have had enough of problems and you have to ask yourself if it will get worse?!

Sometimes I half press the SHUTTER RELEASE to focus before FRAMING and nothing happens!! I release and then try again and NOTHING HAPPENS. I get fed up and press it the whole way and NOTHING HAPPENS. Well the last one is not quite accurate as about 5 seconds or so later it then takes a photograph?!

Example ...

Here is a shot of three aircraft in the sky...

Now here is the one where I attempted to zoom in...half pressed twice...got fed up pressed to take a picture, waited for seveal seconds and dropped my arm to give up and it took a photo of the path I was walking on?!

Otherwise it makes the Olympus look like it has NOT WORKED from the first day I had it!!...

 

Now these are the first few shots and in very bad light with a camera system I am not familiar with and yet they are STUNNING. On days with light like this and when I owned the Olympus SP-820UZ I would probably not leave the house with it some days and certainly would not cycle for 20 miles getting photos...

...that will NOT be the case here.

It also took time when first set up to focus, about twice as long as the Olympus, which initially pissed me off as it meant it would have to go back....AGAIN!!!

I had the Nikon D3100 in my hands and I did tell them at the store that if I then went and bought TWO LENSES, if I even HAD THE CASH, and the camera went wrong I would be livid.

The smaller Lowepro case that fitted the Olympus like a glove, the one I now call the PUKEY camera case it I puked all over it, is too small for this camera.

I also now have no less than EIGHT Rechargeable AA Batteries and a Energizer charger I have little use for as like my other Nikons this uses its own proprietary battery! Meaning I will now have to purchase another battery which will then be a waste of cash if I change the camera again?!

Thus far there has been nothing n the way of allowances of all this extra expenditure nor the time and the photo opportunities I have lost.

I am afraid to say that this highlights exactly what is wrong with the United Kingdom as many want to cast judgement, point fingers, keep their jobs and salaries and yet there is nothing in the way of understanding nor is the any offer of something for the trouble and money spent.

In February this year of 2013 I bought a Nikon L810 Coolpix for £120. This was faulty immediately and I then changed it but had to pay an extra £110 to get something else. This turned out to be the Olympus SP-820UX I was intially over the moon with but failed to realise that THIS was faulty form day one. Early on there was a loud noise when focusing and zooming but thought it just lesser quality than the two Nikons I had previously?! Now I have paid out another £70 and have this wonderful Nikon P520 Coolpix with some fantastic features I wanted all along that will help me IMPROVE my content on all my blogs and my YouTube account no end.

As I told them in store that getting a third one would be disastrous as this would be akin to three strikes in baseball?! Don't ask it was the first thing I could think of!

I was already apprehensive about the camera because when I un-boxed it, oh yeah I forgot I did a video of that, I noticed marks on the lens looking like skin marks. As I used a micro-fibre cloth to clean the marks away I then realised that bloody VOID sticker was on the box?!

Now for those paying attention both Argos and Nikon claim that the VOID sticker is NOTHING to do with them?! I posted the email from Nikon claiming that not a single box in their entire building regardless of where in the range we are talking about, i.e. COST, not ONE box has ANY stickers over the edging on the TOP of the boxes. So not them then!

But Argos claim that this sticker has nothing to do with them either but DID lay laim to the one that covered the VOID sticker that stated Argos Quality Control on it! Well they did not have much of a choice now did they as it did say 'ARGOS' in big red letters and like I said to the chap that spent an hour on the phone stating all their goods are brand new and NOT returns or refurbished stock, yeah heard the BEFORE from Shop Direct and it was BOLLOCKS then and it is BOLLOCKS NOW!

So what is one supposed to do?

Argos are clearly selling really shoddy electrical goods, and I had a crowd of people listening in on my claims to the staff in store, as are Shop Direct and no doubt others too?!

The absolute arrogance you get when you basically tell them too and they think that as they have wasted the most productive months of someone trying to work and make a career for himself that a series of apologies is all that is needed and then go and sell me more of their CRAP!

I never thought in a million years that they would be STUPID enough to do this to the same person three times in a row?!

I feel sorry for the staff that work in store as they are totally unaware to what they are party to, not anymore I can tell you.

I can also tell you this and that is the term AUTHORISED DEALER is not worth a wet.... day out with your dog! LMAO! AS now I w8ill email NIKON UK yet again with what has just happened and I bet I get no reply whatsoever?!

LMAO!

THE OLYMPIAN CRUMBLES

Well what do you know?!

After several arguments with an idiot at Olympus UK I get a phone-call from Argos, after my email about the camera over-heating and refusing to focus.

Those of you coming on here long enough no that my email would NOT have held back in any way, lol.

I got a string of apologies and asked that I take this SECOND faulty camera back to their store?! Now it was a bloody cheek of them the last time as I then had to pay out the same amount again of the Nikon Bridge Camera I had already bought?!

Interestingly this model is now no longer available though it was new at the time?!

SO will I now have to go and shell out another £80 or more to get ANOTHER camera I should have received back in FEBRUARY?! I have also lost thousands of potential photographs and videos since then many of which I will now not be able to get until the Spring and Summer of 2014 as I blog about British Wildlife, among other things.

Anyway here is the receipt, as I will no doubt lose it tomorrow, to show you how I am now returning a SECOND faulty camera for a THIRD!! LMAO!

Some videos of focus playing up, more to come...

OLYMPUS TRIPPY PART TWO

Here are a sequence of videos I normally delete and from the same days filming!

REMEMBER THIS WAS FROM ARGOS AND WAS AN EXCHANGE FOR ANOTHER NIKON CAMERA THAT WAS ALSO FAULTY.

I take a great deal more photos than videos but oddly the videos, when they DO come out, are more detailed than most of the photos?!

GRR!

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

ANOTHER ONE NIBBLES SLIGHTLY ON THE DUST

Well I should really show you yet another item that I purchased and is coming apart at the seams, lol.

Though this one is more worrying sure me because like many other bloggers and writers I seem to be being ripped off by organisations with no artistic our creative input whatsoever?!

That item happens to be the Olympus Stylus SP-820UZ Camera I use for well these 14 blogs which I have thus far failed to receive a single penny for?! That is two cameras in a row from Argos and BOTH very, VERY SUSPECT! The one I swapped this one for was a returned and refurbished one and but refurbished very well. This one they have used papier mache for the handle grip, lol.

Even though done if my adverts are to companies which actually sell these items?! Lol.

Now I have previously mentioned that the quality of the pictures seems to be dropping, or maybe bad to begun with but I had not noticed?! Well it seems to be when I am on the maximum zoom, or close to it which is what I bought it for!

Now this in itself may not found like much but if I explain that a full zoom, 40x Magnification, movie which can only be shot in 720p is far, FAR sharper and detailed than a 40x still photograph at a supposed 14 Megapixels, or resolution at something like 4000x2000 ...ish, lol.

The photos at 100% on my laptop screen look more like photos that have been doubled there size or a 40x digital zoom, which it is not according to the cameras monitor. As you zoom there us a white bar that runs from left to right. When you reach maximum it stops. If you press zoom again it continues but this becomes digital zoom and the bar turns orange to let you know.

I NEVER USE DIGITAL ZOOM!

Digital zooming should NEVER have been created and is a cheat. It simply destroys the quality if a photograph the more you zoom using digital.

Is it not funny that the attitude today is that when its you're money its treated as if it is nothing but when they think you have THEIR MONEY...or even when they think they have an EXCUSE to say you have THEIR MONEY then they behave like you just sucked all the blood dry out of one of their children?! Lol.

I have two organisations like that one is a local council and bailiff that think they can attack you physically and break into you're home over £550 that you don't owe but then go and make £4,000 out of you and lie about it! There is the only example you EVER need.

The other is Very Catalogue who I thought had wisely given up trying to screw me for £400? This for a second hand refurbished phone that would have been worth £180 if it were for the fact that it is extremely frustrating and laborious to type on. Has a Martian Dictionary, has a series of other faults one if which you cannot use the screen while it is charging at all. How I have not taken a gamer to it at some point in the last year I do but know. Refuses and I MEAN REFUSES to type out some simple common English words like 'last' and 'some', lol.

Will they just sent me a letter about the money I owe and that I have refused to pay for the phone. Well yes I did, I kept giving then the option to send an alternative phone and they kept ignoring it. I needed the phone because if the things I had going in contained within this blog. Have no landline. Needed rio be reached by Police (who lied and fucked up), MI5 (who only ever rang once), Social Workers for Grandchildren (who turned out to be lying, cheating and covering to far worse than I could have imagined), Doctors, Hospitals and various other reasons besides. But they did not send another phone despite being asked fifty times I still have proof too?! They are good at ignoring when they think they can easily get away with it but then they never net anyone like me before, lol.

Well I did say earlier on that stuff, and my stuff, seems to be coming apart at the seems these days....

TOUGH TRIP DUE TO LIST OF GREEDY BASTARDS

Well that was a real pain....LITERALLY!!

I left the house on my bike to go and BUY something that, like the dumb-arse I am at times, I had not foreseen me needing..

..this was an external DVD-ROM Drive as I had placed another Western Digital Scorpio 160GB HDD, that I did NOT BUY, in the bay where the Optical Drive USED to be.

Now I did this, and very important it will reveal itself to be that I explain this NOW, because I had a little go at installing another Operating System based on the Linux core OS. This is called Ubuntu 12.04 LTS, latter stands for Long Term Support.

Unfortunately Microsoft is run by an idiot I now like to call the Leaping Lizard because he likes to leap about and scream but comes across as scaley, slimey and controlling. His name is Steve Ballmer and being an ex military man for a country who is not very good at military despite the technology they possess he seems to think that businesses should be run the same way and that all other should be crushed, even when they are not even in it for the money or power. Err well are NOT supposed to be.

The Open Source community, or at any rate the reasons it was started in the first instance, makes a lot of sense once you listen to the fundamental principles. Ubuntu is based on Linux which is based on Unix and even the story behind Unix rings similar to that of Microsoft and Windows. Created by two your guys while working for AT&T who then claimed ownership of it and went off to make a great deal of money from it, while if i recall the two guys did not make much at all. There argument was that theses two were employees of AT&T at the time they created it.

That is about all I know and even these details may be a little 'off'. Just one of thousands of stories you hear when you study Computer Science at University.

Still.... later on a man named Linus Torvalds created Linux and made it free, or at least the kernel and in essence it is Unix though probably with much stuff removed, or at least that is how it got started. Different types of OS's then sprung up and forgive me is I do not know the beginnings of one and whether it was originally Unix or not but it is that used by that famous Rotten Apple brand and the MAC-OS! Lion, Panther, Tiger, Ocelot, Serval, Pussycat or whatever version you are running. Ooh OK yes a little bit of a joke there.

Now I highly admired Apple in the early years and wanted a MAC like there was no tomorrow. Unfortunately they turned into the type of brand they hated and fought against for years, err like Microsoft and Intel?! LMAO! Anyhow Linux was in no way near ready for the masses in the early years and only geeks like me ever really had much to do with it. My time was limited because while studying things had to...well WORK really and sodding about mounting and un-mounting drives there simply was not time for, as fun as it might have seemed to the inner geek in us.

Over tie more version appeared by different groups, disagreements came to the fore and splinter cells broke off and formed more groups but still everything was free, as mad as it sounds. My own run in was with Red Hat and I dual booted this with whatever the current Windows was in 1998, hmm that would be Windows 98 then but I think it was Windows NT 4.0 (NT stood for New Technology). Unfortunately neither of these two were good at playing the latest games so having both seemed a waste. I DO believe I ended up dual booting Windows NT4.0 and Windows 98 in the end. My lecturer friends and fellow students were all shocked when i did this during a semester and managed to achieve it without asking lecturers for help. One chap, Alastare Measures and highly popular among students, was so impressed at this and another creation I STILL possess today wanted to go into business with me. He used to work for the Stock Exchange in London and i saw what the stress of a job like that can DO to a human being!

Fast forward a few years and a whole list of catastrophes and setups as well as set upons by various government morons and public office idiots later and I dual booted a later, and turns out a British sourced with a South African head, Linux Operating System called Ubuntu 12.04 LTS.

Only Computer Active magazine, supposedly for beginners and NEWBIES, states its real easy and simple to do using something called WUBI. So I install it only to find Windows does not want to play anymore?! Not having used Linux for years I knew not what the commands were or even how the two OS's worked differently so now I was on a crash course with a STEEP LEARNING CURVE OF STRAIGHT UPWARDS!! LMAO!

After several days i could not get Windows back which was annoying for the most part because I had files and edited photos and screen shots that were vital to my BLOGS, mainly this one, and did not know how i could get them back?! Ubuntu would not read the drive and Windows did not want to reinstall without wiping everything. Yes I could work with Ubuntu only but two problems remained, only a dozen documents and a dozen photos and my games as I am disabled and need to force myself to stay in.

Hewlett Packard is the manufacturer behind my laptop and on changing my RAM from the 3GB it came with up to the 8GB it now has I realised it had a SECOND HARD DISK BAY!! This was 6 months ago long before Ubuntu was presented to me. I thought how cool this was and thought about an SSD especially as I had now realised that idiots on the Internet were WRONG to state that I could not play any of the latest games on my laptop when I eventually played the most demanding of all....ELDER SCROLLS V SKYRIM!

I then realised I needed not only a special cable to add a second drive but also a LONGER CABLE?! Imagine my shock when I discover I could pick up a short cable for £8 to £15 but the longer one was £100?!?! I went to Maplin's store and asked someone in there wh knew IMMEDIATELY I had a HP laptop as he had the same problem?! MAD!!

I see a Hard Drive caddy online for £11 that will replace my optical drive allowing me to add a second HARD DISK there! So I think ... ohh I wont need my optical drive I will get one and I had a Western Digital Scorpio HDD lying around so used that.

Now I reformatted everything back to their original factory conditions for the two Hard Disk Drives, a 320GB Toshiba, already replaced once, and the 160GB Western Digital and I install Ubuntu onto the Toshiba first, thinking that will need the extra space while Windows will need the faster drive. Only when it comes to installing Microsoft's Windows 7 it yet again REFUSES POINT BLANK to install and the error message given to me makes no sense other than to say "I'm TOTALLY FECKING BLIND!!!"?!

Now I had been sensing skullduggery on Microsoft's part and came up with a little idea and then though "Hmm I have been filming and photographing everything for my blogs to build up content and make money I should REALLY FILM THIS in case it works and should PAY OFF?!" I did and it DID WORK.

It is not the ONLY big name I have been focusing on either but some things are just best to wait for as the more data I have the more concrete it looks to others. Some may spot this immediately but I DO LIKE everyone to spot it...EVENTUALLY. So sometimes it is just best to work on it and wait until the best time.

So I do this film and make some changes to my laptop and HEY PRESTO I am in business. Windows 7, which I DO like despite it being a bit slow compared to Ubuntu and that Leaping Lizard screwing the company up for the last ten years. But Windows starts being Windows yet again by refusing to see a wifi so no internet. My God I could NOT BELIEVE IT, how did they manage to do THAT yet again after doing THAT with the release of Windows XP?!?! I fixed sooo many computers when Windows XP first came out it was NOT TRUE?!

However I had a bit of luck as I had Ubuntu installed which installed without a damn problem at all, everything just WORKED!! So Ubuntu ended up FIXING the ageing and decrepid Windows and held its hand while it fetched the things it needed like a senile and immobile old man in an Old People's Home?!

Back into Windows and I am now in the Internet and install a few other things but forgot a few. No matter i am now online .... but ooh yeah the updates for Windows?! FECK IT!!! Slow Windows and my NOT SO BROAD BAND CONNECTION I am looking at the screen and want to use my laptop as a frisbee but would rather do this with Steve Ballmer, owner of 3 Mobile and HP in front of me with the laptop edges laced with razor blades so decide not to.

Yesterday and after two weeks of fecking about, the last week of which was laced with a really rotten illness, pains in my knees, feet and groin, dizzy spells making me pass out and being dragged to hospital, painfull drilling on my teeth and a really bad toothache that persists today and last night I finally get everything working to the point where all I have to do now is install my games back on and I am one HAPPY CHAPPY!!

I sit down with the games cases on my lap and I remove Edler Scrolls V Skyrim DVD which is the greatest game ever made and sorely missed these last two weeks and by the same outfit I remove the Fallout New Vegas DVD which runs Edler Scrolls a close second and I go to insert the discs into my Optical Drive and I am...

....OH FOR F#@1$!! SAKE!!!!

YOU BLOODY IDIOT!!!

So I had to go through all that to tell you that I had totally missed the fact that I DID INDEED need the Optical Drive no longer in the bay where the installation of Windows 7 now lives. I cannot even remove it to install it which I could have done had it been on the OTHER DRIVE?!?!

So I left the house on my bike to buy ANOTHER DVD ROM DRIVE to plug into my USB Port so I can re-install my bloody games, LMFAO!!

I decide to go around the cah converters and little store to buy one cheap. I only need them to install a couple of games and I have four bloody items in this house that spin optical discs?!?! I KID YOU NOT!!

I go into Morrisons and there is a little PC repair place ... "How much your DVD Roms, mate?" I inquire before being told they are £40.00 and I am like "Err no I do not think so!!"

I now realize i have an intense pain in my right heel and thanking my lucky stars that I have come out on my bike I then hobble over the car park to enter PC World that sits 100 yards from the Argos that sold me a refurbished Nikon Camera, or TWO?! The pain is getting worse and i am feeling some stinging in my groin to boot, ooh bad pun!

I had intended to either go to my friends store afterwards but I also had TWO harnesses on me for my Barr & Stroud 8x42 Bird Watching Binoculars worth £100 but I got off Amazon for £83?! Also in my Kombat Rucksack in Olive Green also bought from AMAZON is my Olympus Stylus SP-820UZ Camera too and I had planned to go to Lea Valley Park to film and photograph wildlife which would NOT have been good due to the crap weather but want and need more content for my blogs and YouTube accounts?!

In PC World I see, eventually and in teh WRONG PLACE, a Lite-ON top loading DVD ROM and WRITER for £25 (with £5 off). This is about £15 more than i actually want to pay and am using my rent money until Wednesday when I get paid next....IF I GET PAID NEXT?!

As I have done so many times before I end up thinking bugger it I am not going about in pain I will just get this one....only when I buy it I hand over a £50 NOTE only to be handed £20 in change and I say "errr love, you have given me the wrong change?!" and she says no its £29.99 and I say NO it is £24.99 and point towards the SHELF where I got it which is only 6 feet away. She says it must be for a different one and I say oh what you just so happen to have TWO Lite-ON DVDs both with the same features and yet you have the price for the cheaper one and not the DEARER ONE, yeah right! I thna point out that this DVD Rom is indeed £29.99 but that the label states that it is £5.00 OFF and she scans the label after removing it from the shelf and then says ... NO SIR THIS IS A DIFFERENT ONE!

I am a computer scientist in PC World being spoken to by an idiot like I am the IDIOT?!

I puff and whinge and think about how I just stood in pain for ten minutes waiting while only ONE PERSON was on the 8 tills, saw the queue which was now four times longer than when i was on it and said...

..."fine....I will just have to TAKE THIS ONE THEN!"

Now if you will EXCUSE ME, I DO BELIEVE those two games have finished INSTALLING!!! LMFAO!!

Happy Easter!

THAT INCREASE IN FREQUENCY AND CONTENT MENTIONED

I stated that with the right tools I would increase the flow of content on ALL FORMATS and in only TWO local trips I have done and achieved EXACTLY THAT!!

I will provide a series of examples... for my ARTISTIC EXPRESSIVES on my DIGITAL PHOTOGRAPHY BLOG...

Apologies for the orientation problem but something really very, VERY wrong with either PICASA and/or PAINT?!

When I open to view in Picasa it shows the picture the correct way up though I have yet to ROTATE it. I then open this in PAINT to resize it and save it, then find I then HAVE TO ROTATE IT!

But now I have uploaded them on here they have come out the wrong way up again?! LMAO! Still there here and you GET THE IDEA?!

Loose selection at random...

GREATER SPOTTED WOODPECKER...

HE OR SHE WAS A VERY, VERY LONG WAY AWAY...AND UP!!!

But I got a VIDEO TOO!!!...ONE OF THREE VIDEOS OF THE WOODPECKER