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