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This (bad) photo shows my current 'fleet' of 'demonstrator' pens. L→R they are: Lamy Vista (my first Lamy pen, and one that I have had for long enough that I have almost entirely worn-off the sticker on the end of its barrel that said 'LAMY'); Pilot Prera Iro-Ai green, with 'EF' nib; Pilot Prera Iro-Ai black, with 'F' nib; Pilot Prera Iro-Ai red, with 'M' nib; an un-branded Chinese-made pen. That last pen has a folded steel nib with no indicated nib grade. I bought it a few years ago - with two included cartridges - for 'fully' £0.59 in a bricks-&-mortar shop here called 'Home Bargains'. You can see that its clip is broken (its only utility is as a roll-stop. Cf the clip on my Pelikan P480 Pelikano). It wrote perfectly acceptably with the first of its included cartridges. At this price, I was frankly surprised that it even wrote at all. It is rather small for my paw, so I have not yet used its second cartridge of (unbranded) black ink.

These three pens were - very generously - gifted to me this month. And I am very grateful to have received them 😊 All three are Pilot Prera Iro-Ai pens, but they have different grades of nib on them. L→R they are: Green pen with 'EF' nib; Black pen with 'F' nib; Red pen with 'M' nib. These are the first pens I have owned with round-tipped Japanese 'EF' or 'F' nibs. I am keen to ink them up and experiment with them, to see how tiny I can make my writing, whilst retaining legibility 😊