After posting the preceding, we went out to the garden and I planted the sugar snap peas that had still been rooting in their little pots. They were well rooted and now they're planted in the soil and watered. We'll get some rain this weekend, but I wanted to make sure they were happy after the intrusion.

In the interim, a reply appeared in my email and the sexy black E-PL7 is mine. I didn't think they'd go for the offer because it was more than 10% below the asking price. Based on the pics, it'll need a bit of a cleanup, but the screen is good. You never really know since some of these sellers don't take very good product shots.

But they knew how to call up the maintenance screen and show the number of shutter activations, and that's valuable information. U.S. seller, there seem to be more PENs available from Japan. I've had pretty good luck with Japanese sellers, but with the E-PL7 their prices tend toward the higher side on the good ones, and there were few black ones. Mostly silver and quite a few white.

Complete setup with the charger, flash, two batteries and one of those pleather half-cases and a snap-over case, which will be banished to the dark recesses of a drawer somewhere. It's also wearing a brown pleather neck strap and that likewise will disappear.

Yeah, I probably need an intervention.

Originally posted at Nice Marmot 12:40 Thursday, 21 March 2024