W/NW The Streets of Yokohama!

I like your #1718. You don't often do distance images (excepting when you travel around Japan), and this one in B&W is as always, excellent.

I'm curious about how much gear do you carry when you go out, and how much your camera pack weighs.

You seem to have an enviable collection of good Fujinon and Voigtlander lenses. As well as cameras.

(So he writes, enviously.)

I also note you are out and about almost every day, photographing on the streets. It's a good way to keep fit.

I'm now at a tender age when one camera (Nikon D800 usually, sometimes one of my Fujis) and a couple of lenses encumber me to the extent that I often leave my pack in the car. I was okay to carry the lot until this year, when suddenly all of a sudden I seem to have got - old.

Okay, 77 is not young, but my energy levels were relatively high (all the more so with an hour's nap in the afternoon when I get home from whatever I've been doing out in the world) until a few months ago, when boom! I stumbled and started down the slippy slope of pending antiquity or whatever else we can call it. (The word 'decrepitude' comes to mind, but I don't like it, so let's move on from that topic, okay?)

SO says I look weary. Not so much old (which I am, never mind), but tired. Of things.

This both annoys and bothers me.

I've been thinking of trading in my Fujinon 18/2.0, which is an okay lens but nothing to write home to ma about, for a newer and bette quality 18. Whether Fuji or Voigtlander. The latter I'm told is sharper. Whether or not it has the visual 'personality' of the older Fuji lens is a thought. I could borrow one, maybe, and test it. We will see.

As always and as ever, your images are stimulating, thought-provoking, and technically super good. Carry on...
 
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Hello DownUnder! Here we go!

I'm curious about how much gear do you carry when you go out, and how much your camera pack weighs.

When I go out for a walk-about I take one camera (Fujifilm or Sony) and 2 lenses. I take a 50mm or longer and a 35mm or wider. Occasionally I just take a 40mm or a zoom. Note: I’m talking full frame equivalents. I don’t know how much my pack weighs but I can tell you that I don’t use a traditional camera bag; I use an LL Bean backpack (a nothing fancy daypack) with some extra padding in the bottom to protect my gear.

You seem to have an enviable collection of good Fujinon and Voigtlander lenses. As well as cameras.

Thank you! And, you're right. What I don't have is a car, a boat, a mortgage or any debts whatsoever. So, that frees up some money for buying my toys.

I also note you are out and about almost every day, photographing on the streets. It's a good way to keep fit.

I try to go out everyday and walk over 10,000 steps. Combining my exercise walk with my photography is both fun and exciting. At the end of the day I always exceed the 10,000 step limit and sometimes have a few good pictures too!

I've been thinking of trading in my Fujinon 18/2.0, which is an okay lens but nothing to write home to ma about, for a newer and bette quality 18. Whether Fuji or Voigtlander. The latter I'm told is sharper. Whether or not it has the visual 'personality' of the older Fuji lens is a thought. I could borrow one, maybe, and test it. We will see.

I have finally bonded with my Fujinon 18mm f2 lens. It took a long time but I’m now happily using it and getting good results. As usual (for me), it’s not the lens that’s the problem, it’s me. Once I decided that I was going to love the 18mm f2 no matter what… everything fell into place and the images I wanted suddenly started to appear.

As always and as ever, your images are stimulating, thought-provoking, and technically super good. Carry on…

Thank you and will do!

All the best,
Mike
 
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