{"id":4524,"date":"2025-01-11T20:11:15","date_gmt":"2025-01-11T19:11:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/priscimon.com\/blog\/?p=4524"},"modified":"2025-03-23T01:21:12","modified_gmt":"2025-03-23T00:21:12","slug":"cold-walk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/priscimon.com\/blog\/2025\/01\/11\/cold-walk\/","title":{"rendered":"Cold walk"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>We went for a walk in the cold today, covering 10 km in Long Valley. The temperature hovered around zero degrees Celcius, so much of the overnight ice remained, which made it fun for us to slide on the many frozen puddles along the way.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>My one-month-old Nikon D850 has a misaligned focusing screen, which means that the AF works but the viewfinder shows a blurry image. I requested a warranty repair from Nikon, and it&#8217;s due to be collected by courier on Tuesday. I thought I&#8217;d take a few pictures with it before it&#8217;s sent off. The D850 is a really great camera, it&#8217;s a shame that my specimen has this fault.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-1 is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" data-attachment-id=\"4520\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/priscimon.com\/blog\/2025-01-11a-001\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/priscimon.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/2025-01-11A-001.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"1920,1080\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;11&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;Eddy Young&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;D850&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;Copyright (C) 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The temperature hovered around zero degrees Celcius, so much of the overnight ice remained, which made it fun for us to slide on the many frozen puddles along the way. My one-month-old Nikon D850 has a misaligned focusing screen, which [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4524","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1j9q5-1aY","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":4703,"url":"https:\/\/priscimon.com\/blog\/2025\/04\/28\/spring-colours\/","url_meta":{"origin":4524,"position":0},"title":"Spring colours","author":"Eddy Young","date":"28 April 2025","format":false,"excerpt":"Yesterday, P and I went on a long hike. 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