A stroll along Bahnhofstrasse with an old friend

Every now and again I decide to sell my digital gear and go back entirely to film. In between times I decide to sell my old film gear. When the latter occurs, I usual take out some of the old gear to see if I think maybe it's worth keeping. Normally this leads back to option 1 and so on.

Yesterday I went into town with my Zuiko 28mm f2 fastened to the Canon 5D. It was a day of regular dappled sunlight, so I set everything to manual, prefocused and just used the shutter button.

I imagined that this and the preceding photo show a pair of women and their daughters. I was reminded of watching sparrows earlier in the year teaching their young to forage. This is similar - they disappeared en masse into Grieder.

The result of the "experiment"? Well these photos are not really a test of the lens - if used carefully, for landscape work for example, it puts the Canon 16-35 f2.8L to shame - although comparing a zoom with a prime is nonsense in the first place.

These photos though are just an exercise in a particular approach to shooting - some were carefully framed - others shot from the hip. I could probably have produced a similar set using the iPhone, although the business of framing a shot would be more hit and miss.

Any closer to rationalising my photo equipment? No.