Why keep equipment you're not using? Right? Thinking about buying something new always makes me consider what I have that I can sell to help pay for a new purchase. And so it is with my lenses and bags. Maybe I can even make enough money from the sale of those items I don’t use or rarely use so I can keep my trusty ole Olympus OM-D E-M1 camera. Hmmm? Now that’s interesting.

I have that "buy something new" itch. That itch, combined with how much I've enjoyed using my Panasonic GM-5 camera over the past six months, has led me to consider downsizing my primary camera, the Olympus OM-D E-M1. I've used the little GM-5 so much since I got it that when I pick up my Olympus OM-D E-M1 I forget where some controls are.

Smartphones as cameras keep getting better and better. As it turns out, I used my iPhone a lot to make images on my recent trip to Germany! In fact, almost one-third of all the images I have from the trip I shot using my iPhone 7 Plus. And many of them were shot using either the HDR mode in the default camera app or the TrueHDR app.

I returned Tuesday from my two-week trip in Germany and am now reflecting on how I used the assorted camera equipment I took with me. Once again my Vanquest SKITCH-12 bag served as my transport bag to get all of my equipment on the plane and to Germany. Once there and at my first overnight location, I took the Lowepro Streamline 250 out of my checked bag...

It's day #10 of my two-week trip in southern Germany and I'm assessing what I brought with me with regards to camera equipment. As usual for me, I have used my Olympus OM-D E-M1 with the 12-40mm, f/2.8 lens for almost all of my shooting

My trip to Germany is mostly to visit relatives, but also to capture, hopefully, lots of new images and, of course, practice my German!