So, what did I actually use on the trip?
It looks like my days of street shooting excitement are over (more on that to come), but I did do some this trip never the less.
My interest has shifted to places people frequent, but sans people it seems. part f this is a consciousness that people are more aware and wary of a middle aged dude with a camera and I am ok with that.
Tokyo is tall and busy, that sums it up decently, tall and busy. Height needs a wide zoom, busy needed some reach to compress and tidy up compositions, the “everyday street corner” habit I developed needed something in the middle, so the 12-60 lit lens did most days.
Harajuku
I did try to use the primes, but unless I needed the speed, the 12-60 kit was plenty. Set to AF, central focus point (notched one box down to catch more, at f5.6. I did not miss many and at that aperture, Bokeh was irrelevant.
Kagurazaka or “little Paris”
The 45 was used in tandem with the 17 one rainy night in Harajuku, then I put both away. The 9mm was never used (no vast temple interiors), the 15 was used a little more and the 40-150 was usually packed just in case, used for about 15% of the files, especially in parks etc. My one day of trying the 15 and 40-150 was a day of lens changes, mind changes and more lens changes.
One slightly faulty EM10.2 did the bulk of the trip.
Tight cropping in Shinjuku
The second one decided to ignore requests for the back screen for viewing only showing the info screen (seems the info button was dead), which on top of its quirks with screen angles (both of them will give me the back screen only at 45 degrees, not at horizontal or vertical), it was just too much to bother with and the Pen Mini was used once, then the lack of a tilt screen and its annoying habit of selecting and shifting exposure comp without me realising, got it shelved.
A little reach in Kanda Jimbocho. This is effectively the length of a block on the 40-150.
Batteries were excellent, shooting over 1700 images over one day with a little over two batts out of four at hand. I used about 40-50gb of card memory spread over several cards for safety.
Koishikawa Korsakuen Garden.
Once I got myself sorted, it all went brilliantly and my day bag, a canvas tote with camera insert, down vest, rain coat and stuff, weighed about 2-3kg all up.