All booked and ready (very ready….oh the waiting) for our next trip to Japan.
We have been before and will undoubtedly go again, so this trip a little experimenting with kit.
Usually the kit comprises of;
2 EM5 bodies (one in the left hand and one on a long strap,
17, 45 and either 75-300 or 75mm long lenses with the 25mm thrown in just in case.
This allows me speed and range as well as being low profile for street shooting.
The kit more or less for the last few years.
Technique is usually Aperture priority with the ISO set to what ever is reasonable for the light or automatic, with the range limited to 1600. MF set on the 17mm for zone shooting and single point centre focus for the 45mm or longer lenses.
This usually goes into either the Tokyo Porter sling bag or Filson Camera Field bag.
This time;
EM1 with the 12-40 mounted in the left hand fired by left thumb or right hand as needed,
EM5 with the 75-300 or 75 (not sure yet),
17 or 25 as back-up for night shooting.
Technique will change to Shutter priority, auto ISO. AF set on both cameras, with the EM1 using face detect and wide area centre biased focus area. This combo has proven to be almost impossibly fast and seems to choose the right target more often than not. The likely back up plan is to use zone focus like the 17mm or even the 17mm if I take it.
Another option is the 12-40, 60 macro and 75-300.
The bag this time is the Think Tank Turnstyle 10 (review coming). I have been looking for a more comfortable way of carrying gear for a while. My wife and I are walkers. It suits us and I think we see more interesting, simpler things when travelling this way, rather than jumping from one tourist hot spot to the next.
The Turnstyle range and sling style bags in general have always intrigued me, but the foot dropped when the new V2 version in charcoal arrived in store. Love at first sight.
They really are deceptive in their capacity. The Peak Designs Everyday Sling is similar and genuinely weather proof without a separate cover, but I like the straight-drop down tear-drop shape rather than the more top-strap messenger design of the PD. After a moment of indecision between the 10L and 20L (a 15 would have been perfect!), I went with the smaller, as the point is to keep the kit and bag profile down.
The probable kit.
I am sure this will change a little over the next couple of months, but the thinking I like and the bag will accommodate.