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Juan, To speak about converters; I think they completely have a place. Caran d'Ache, Graf, Sailor, Yard-o-Led, among other makers use converters.
I think a benefit of converters is that they hold less. I don't write that much but I like to use a fountain pen when I do. A converter insures I am always using fresh ink. A piston full of ink would take me at least a month to run through ... if not more.
Also, I dislike the washable inks, and like the "bullet proof" inks, for permanence. I lost valuable tax records because I kept the records with non permanent ink. The books received a water dunking. Gone were the records.
so
a pen, like my new Caran d'Ache Varius Ivanhoe Black ... with a converter ....is perfect for the poisonous ...and Very black .... bulletproof ..Noodler's Old Manhattan Black. An ink I would NEVER put in a vintage piston Pelikan or Omas because there is the strong possibility it stains the ink tank window. Let it stain the converter window!
So those are my reasons in praise of converters.
Rafael
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