Two years ago, I started sharing a version of the Lens and camera stats that I collect every year to observe how I am using or not using my equipment. These public posts are based on the images from my Best Of posts, which tend to be a great microcosm for how I use equipment on the whole.

There is a lot you can gain from looking at your year to year stats in this way. For instance, if I compare last year’s data to this year’s, some obvious differences emerge:

First of all, in 2018, you can easily see that I had pretty much even usage from two DSLRs and my iPhone (the D7200 was sold in July, so for 5.5 months, the D300 was my Primary cam). Whereas this year I was quite a bit heavier on the X-E3 than the X-T20 (this is partially due to the fact that the X-T20 was in the shop for a couple of months for a repair, and partially because I typically like the X-E3 as my primary walk around camera- it gets the wider angle lens, which as you’ll see below, I tend to prefer).

(Note: All lenses are f/2, except the variable aperture 55-200mm and the 16mm f/2.8)

From the lens data, you may observe that over 3/4 of my shots were done at 23mm or wider. This is my focal range of preference for sure. I enjoy being close to the action, and I like to utilize the storytelling properties of the wider lengths. That said, I am a believer in “the right lens for the right shot”, so I am proud that all of my primary lenses wound up in the data. I am also a bit surprised that the 50mm contributed more images than the 35mm. It certainly suggests a slight shift in how I’ve been thinking about perspective with the new cams.