No black blobs, No scratches!!

I'm talking about my camera of course. Arrived back from repair this morning and they have done a terrific job.
Not only fixed the zoom error (Sand Damage noted on the repair form) but a new lens too so the scratches that were there have now gone.
I think the sand damage must have been from my 2014 visit to Oman when I took hundreds and hundreds of photographs, sometimes in conditions not conducive to good camera care!

Anyway, it's nice to be reunited with it and I look forward to taking some better photographs,

And yes, Crispin25, I have my leather camera case on my belt and there it will stay from now on.