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Re: [OM] Happy Dance!

Subject: Re: [OM] Happy Dance!
From: Jim Nichols <jhnichols@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 15 Apr 2016 16:58:07 -0500
Congratulations.  Sounds like a useful acquisition.

Jim Nichols
Tullahoma, TN USA

On 4/15/2016 4:54 PM, Chris Trask wrote:
      The new/used E-520 body arrived this morning, and I couldn't be happier.  
Looks like it was never used, including the settings.  I put in a freshly 
charged battery, turned it on, tested the flash, and then went about shutting 
off ALL of the automatic features.  It's going to wear the Samyang 
28-200/4.0-5.6 most of the time as that has proven to be a good walkabout lens.

      Setting the recording môde is a bit challenging at first.  On the E-500 
it's a single menu to choose from, but on the E-520 you have to choose the 
compression level and the pixel count from separate menus, and the manual does not 
make it easy.

      It came with a battery and a charger, so now I have yet another spare 
battery.  But, I don't have any spare protective covers.  Anyone know of a 
source for those, or perhaps a page that describes making one from cardboard or 
other insulating material?  I suppose I could machine one from a chunk of nylon 
stock.
     Some time ago I set aside the idea of acquiring an E-520 body because
they were just too expensive on the second-hand market.  This morning I
happened to take a look at that saved evilBay search and there it was:
Body, battery, and charger at a $95 Buy It Now or Best Offer listing from
a mainstream seller.  It had been listed for less than an hour, and I got
it for $90, which is a lot less expensive than I had seen before.


Chris

When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro
      - Hunter S. Thompson

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