Yesterday we went and bought a new camera. I’ve been trying to decide what to get for ages now, and I’ve managed to go all the way back round to my first choice.<\/p>\n
We picked up a shiny new Nikon D80<\/a> with the Nikon 18-200mm VR lens<\/a> from Jessops in Canterbury.\u00c2\u00a0I’d already purchased a pair of Sandisk 2GB SD cards<\/a> and a Hoya 72mm Protector filter<\/a> online (Play.com and PurelyGadgets.co.uk respectively), since they were considerably cheaper than Jessops.<\/p>\n I wasn’t sure what to expect from Jessops. I’ve become quite cynical in recent years and I’ve come to expect being messed about\u00c2\u00a0and ripped off. But, to my delight, Jessops was great. I was served by a guy called Chris in the Mercery Lane store who thankfully knew what he was doing. He was also more than happy to price match a couple of magazines I’d\u00c2\u00a0taken in (containing the Jessops price match promise). I made a saving of around \u00c2\u00a3150 from their list prices, and Nikon are offering a further \u00c2\u00a350 cash back. So I’m a happy man.<\/p>\n Now I would go on to say how great the camera is, but I can’t just yet. The first reason is that it’s meant to be a Christmas present, so I really ought to leave it alone for a couple of weeks. But, ignoring the first reason, it’s been either dark or pouring with rain since I left the store, so I haven’t had much opportunity.<\/p>\n Roll on Christmas! \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Yesterday we went and bought a new camera. I’ve been trying to decide what to get for ages now, and I’ve managed to go all the way back round to my first choice. We picked up a shiny new Nikon D80 with the Nikon 18-200mm VR lens from Jessops in Canterbury.\u00c2\u00a0I’d already purchased a pair of Sandisk 2GB SD cards …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bishnet.net\/tim\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bishnet.net\/tim\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bishnet.net\/tim\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bishnet.net\/tim\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bishnet.net\/tim\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bishnet.net\/tim\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":357,"href":"https:\/\/www.bishnet.net\/tim\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57\/revisions\/357"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bishnet.net\/tim\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bishnet.net\/tim\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bishnet.net\/tim\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}