Bits and pieces...

We all do daft things now and then - just as long as we learn from them.

Hope they eye is OK - sounds nasty.

Yeah, the eye thing is something else I wouldn't recommend.

I have a weak blood vessel on the retina which "pops" with little provocation: it's just off the centre of my field of vision, and when I get a bad bleed (thankfully not often) I end up with a blind spot smack-dab in the middle of my FOV.

The last one took two months to clear up (and it started more or less just when I got the new kit, at the beginning of June): at its worst I could barely see the bird in the viewfinder, which makes things difficult, as you'd imagine!

I'm still nowhere near 100% recovered after this last bad one, but I'm getting by now - and the other eye's fine should things get really bad.

Unfortunately the only treatment for retinal bleeding is laser cauterisation - but that's likely to destroy the same optic cells that are affected by the bleeding in the first place!

Bummer!

At the moment though, I'm happy enough with my lot. Providing there's a modicum of light, I can see well enough to frame a shot, then the camera and lens can do the hard work.

It does make PP really hard though, because I can't gauge colour, sharpness, contrast and whatnot very well.