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Robin WongReviewsA Pancake Lens From A Distant Past - Olympus 25mm F2.8 I find myself shooting more and more with the older Olympus DSLR cameras like the E-1 and E-620. Since I love 50mm equivalent lens for my street photography I thought it would be great to get a 25mm…

Robin WongReviewsUsing Olympus 75-300mm F4.8-6.7 II with Extension Tubes Olympus 75-300mm F4.8-6.7 II is a wonderful budget-friendly super telephoto lens for Micro Four Thirds. However, its close up shooting performance isn't so great.

Robin WongReviewsA Day Out With OM System 14-42mm III OM Digital Solutions updated their standard zoom kit lens, the 14-42mm F3.5-5.6 III which was released together with the OM System PEN.

Robin WongReviewsAnimal Subject Detection AF in OM System PEN - Visiting A Cat Cafe I am happy to see that OM Digital Solutions included the Animal AI Subject Detection Autofocus in their latest camera OM System PEN.

Robin WongReviewsOM System PEN's Massive Improvement in Macro Autofocus During my initial tests of the OM System PEN, I quickly found out that the AF performance has been dramatically improved, the first test I did to realize this was insect macro shooting.

Robin WongReviewsA Photo Exhibited in Kuching Here is a surprise - 1 have a photograph exhibited in the Spring Shopping Mall, Kuching, under the WAK Festival X Canon Malaysia "Celebrating Malaysia and Wild About Nature".

Robin WongReviewsNight Urbanscape With OM System PEN I brought the OM System PEN out around the city area of Kuala Lumpur to shoot some night scenes for my initial review of the camera.

Robin WongReviewsSometimes, An Old 3.2MP CCD Digicam Is Enough After all the hype and noise surrounding the new OM System PEN camera, it is time for a detox, and I thought what better way to do that by shooting with an old compact camera from the early digicam…

Robin WongReviewsLow Light Stage Photography With Olympus E-M1 Original (Part 2) This is a continuation from the previous blog entry about shooting low light stage photography using the Olympus E-M1 Original from 2013.

Robin WongReviewsSpeaking for YL Photo Fair Last Friday, I was invited by OM System Malayia to speak at YL Photo Fair, sharing my experience using their latest OM System PEN camera.

Robin WongReviewsLow Light Stage Photography With Olympus E-M1 Original (Part 1) I shot a recent show at Kuala Lumpur Performing Arts Center (KLPAC), and a friend who happens to be a full frame shooter commented on how daring I was for using Micro Four Thirds to shoot in such a…

Robin WongReviewsShooting Sports With OM System PEN During the 5 short days I had with the OM System PEN camera loan from OM System Malaysia, coincidentally SUKMA (Malaysian Sports Games) was happening, and I had some opportunity to put the camera to…

Robin WongReviewsSG Image 25mm F1.8 AF For Micro Four Thirds While I welcome third party manufacturers making AF lenses for Micro Four Thirds, which is a rarity these days, we already have so many 25mm lens options that another 25mm F1.8 lens from SG Image…

Robin WongReviewsMore Lily Shots With OM System PEN This is a continuation from previous post about outdoor shooting session using the OM System PEN camera.

Robin WongReviewsOutdoor Portrait Shooting With OM System PEN I was very happy when I found out that OM Digital Solutions managed to include the human AF Subject Detection AF in their latest OM System PEN, though the camera uses older internals.

Robin WongReviewsOM System PEN - Finally, A Near Perfect Micro Four Thirds Camera! OM Digital Solutions has just launched their latest camera - OM System PEN. I was really excited about this camera for a few reasons - 1) This is officially the first PEN camera from OM Digital…

Robin WongReviewsNew Photography Workshop 2027! This Time It Will Be In Helsinki, Finland! I am very happy to announce my next photography workshop that will happen next year! This time, it will be in Helsinki, Finland, from 2 to 6 August 2027 and I am doing this together with my friends…

Robin WongReviewsWe Have Hit 100K Subscribers! Thank You! After 7 long years, finally my YouTube channel has hit 100,000 subscribers! It felt like a lifetime getting here, and I only have all you beautiful people to thank for.

Robin WongReviewsPudu Street Photography Outing I have been to Pudu, Kuala Lumpur so many times, yet it remains as one of my top favorite spots for street shooting.

Robin WongReviewsThe Budget Beginner Birding Lens - Olympus 75-300mm F4.8-6.7 II I have owned the Olympus M.Zuiko 75-300mm F4.8-6.7 II for quite some time now, but I never brought it out to shoot some birds.

Robin WongReviewsReliving Some Nostalgia With Kodak Point And Shoot Digicam Not many of you were here when this blog started, because if you were, you'd remember the camera that started my whole photography journey, it was a Kodak digital point and shoot camera, CX7430.

Robin WongReviewsMacro Adventures With Olympus 12-50mm Kit Lens The Olympus M.Zuiko 12-50mm F3.5-6.3 is not only versatile kit lens, but it also features a dedicated macro mode that can produce really good close up shooting results.

Robin WongReviewsStreet Photography With A Superzoom I am a prime lens shooter, I am not ashamed to admit that, and I have been quite vocal about it too. Nothing against zoom lenses, but I think prime lenses will give you better results, if you give it…

Robin WongReviewsBeing Carried - Shooting A Theater Play With Olympus 14-150mm II I attended quite an unusual theater play at KLPAC (Kuala Lumpur Performing Arts Center) recently - the show was called "Being Carried".

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The small bracket on top of every camera, from a phone rig to an ARRI.

The hot shoe is where the flash goes, and the microphone, and the monitor, and whatever the next decade bolts on. Every camera has one and nobody photographs it. This magazine is named after it because that is where the whole business meets: the body, the glass, the light, the sound, and the person holding it.

I shot news in Gothenburg for nine years and documentary for hire after that, then stopped taking assignments to write about the tools. Since 2021 I live in Tokyo, ten minutes from the used-camera shops of Shinjuku, which is not an accident: Canon, Nikon, Sony, Fujifilm, Panasonic, Ricoh and Sigma make almost everything worth pointing at a subject, and their own press writes about it first, in Japanese. So this magazine reads it there, and in German, French, Italian and Spanish, and in English from the reviewers who actually put a card in the slot — around eighty sources and thirty channels, counted and plotted so you can see what is moving.

Bodies and lenses, cinema cameras and drones, film and the darkroom, firmware and the software that finishes the picture, the rumours before the launch and the reviews after it, and the photographers and shows the rest of it is for. I test what I write about on a job before a word goes down. I shoot film on Sundays and do not think that makes me interesting.

A story here is a headline, a short excerpt, one picture and the link to whoever reported it. We never reprint the article, and the picture belongs to the photographer or the maker. A story written in Japanese appears in Japanese, as its author set it down; the link goes to the original.

— Mara Lindqvist, Tokyo