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Not much has changed recently, which is generally a good thing. Sales have been ..weak though, nibbles on the Pentax gear but no deals yet. The GX7 and occasionally GX1 have had a few nice workouts on the autumnal views of gold leaves and fungi, though no big-time destination shooting other than stops at Lake Sacagawea in town, shown below. I have some raw images to toy with on several shots ..some day.

The only dream of lenses right now is a non-existant μ43 17-70mm zoom of reasonable speed. Kirk T. mentioned that a similar focal-length range would do for 90% of his work; as a "walkaround lens" I seldom use ultrawide <14mm) so starting around 35mme would be right for me. Not many forum folk have taken up my crusade. I can grab an old 18-50 Sigma in 4Thirds mount (some day) and see how it goes - but a native lens would be much smaller. Ah well.

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And now: weather news!
After a week with about 4½ inches of rain, we will end October on a dry stretch. We did reach average for October with about 0.02" to spare, so every Sep and Oct that we've lived here has been above average. 'Twas close - but still counts! Novembers have ranged from 65-120% of average so the signal gets weak after this.

'Snu?

Hardware update: I swapped my 12-60mm Lumix for a GX7 body plus $20. This one has about 50k fewer clicks than the recently-returned one, cost $30 less and works just fine. Current use is with 12-40 xiaoYi zoom* since the gx7 stabilizes it and it's 2mm wider (it loses 2mm at the long end). That's a fair trade compared to the 12-32mm's narrower range.

The k-5 and lenses are up for sale & a bit of interest has appeared.
No action just ..interest.

Here's an image for today of a twisted contrail. It was transferred from GX7 to phone and tweaked for contrast. Hope everyone was wearing their seat belts on that flight!


* Soon after posting this, the Yi body sold. Just the body, which is fine by me as I get to use the 12-40mm a bit longer. Yay!