From Fuji to Olympus, by accident and by luck
Olympus Passion Photography Magazine – October 2024!
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From Fuji X to the Olympus Pen-F
Since 2011 I have been using Fujifilm X cameras exclusively. Starting with the first and original Fuji X100, the X-Pro1 with the XF 35 1.4 to the X-E1 and the X-T1, X-Pro2 both with the awesome XF 16-55 2.8 I think I have used nearly every native Fujinon X lens,…
I just bought a new Olympus, the Olympus 4
I’ve always enjoyed the outdoors, and hiking is part of my life whenever possible. Outdoor life and photography will always be connected. One is inseparable from the other. That’s why walking shoes are so important to me. But road shoes are definitely not suitable, mostly due to traction problems on…
From Full Frame to Micro Four Thirds
My photography gear has evolved quite a bit over the years. While size is the most obvious difference, that is only a portion of the story. My path is likely quite different from others you may have read. For me, a bigger sensor wasn’t the marker of a great…
Why I love the PEN-F but switched to the Olympus OM-D E-M1
Some of you might have read my blog post on my switch from Fujifilm´s X camera system to the Olympus PEN-F. If not you can do so via this link to the blog post. Well I adore the PEN-F as a creative tool for my photography and would have…
Olympus M.Zuiko 75mm F1.8: The “big old boy” never fails!
Now that you can buy this prime lens at a good price (around 400 Euros for a mint condition item) on the second-hand market, you can verify the truthfulness of my statement. My first and spontaneous impression after attaching the lens on my OM-D E-M5 was: “WOW!” Let me explain…
E-M5 family
Photography is Art
Hi, my name is Dino Rovolis. I am of Greek ethnicity and I work as a freelance photographer & retoucher based in the city of Montreal. Photography is a form of art I wasn’t necessarily always into; it sort of squeezed its way into my life in my late teens. It all began when I […]
October issue
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Premium/ Size Matters (?)
What is the best resolution to print or to use online? This is, perhaps, one of the most recurrent questions that constantly knocks on our door. When we start talking about size, we usually end up concluding that size doesn’t matter. But this is not always the case, as you…
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Davey Wilson is an award-winning commercial, sports and documentary photographer published in The Rugby Journal, Pro Cycling Magazine, Velo News and online at Cycling Tips and many more. Wilson served as team photographer for the Axel Merckx-helmed Hagens Berman Axeon Cycling Team and Utah Warriors (Major League Rugby), as well…
Premium/ If you could only choose one lens to use for the rest of your life, what would it be?
If you could only choose one focal length to use for the rest of your life, what would it be? But let me start the story from the beginning, with the succession of events that led me to debate this issue now. Being in our plans for some time, last…
Visual Stories
Get outside and don’t forget your camera!
It’s a gray and misty morning in December. I’ve noticed that a hill near my home place is covered in clouds, so I quickly grab the camera and tripod and get on my way. Half an hour later, I’m in the middle of a little forest. Weather forecast tells me…
Yellowstone – Winter 2018 with Olympus gear
Introduction One of my bucket list items has always been to shoot Yellowstone in winter. I’m not sure if it’s the thought of seeing the park without the hordes of people or those amazing winter shots you see. But in any case I’ve wanted to shoot it in winter for…
On the Streets of the City – with Coffee
I am a full-time professor at a university, teaching film theory, digital and visual culture and literature, and now moving into photography on a critical-theoretical level as well. The reasons behind my choices for academic topics are interestingly coming from my hobbies – and so it happened with photography recently.…
On every street
I was born in the small town of Livingstone in Zambia very near the Victoria Falls, at that time it was still British. From there, I moved on to South Africa at the age of four, where I lived until the age of nineteen. I then decided to make a…
The Beginner’s Guide To Underwater Photography – with Olympus Tough
Buoyancy control is everything at this precise moment. I watch John float further towards the moray eel. It had nearly completely slithered out of its cave to investigate the foreign being in its territory. Oh my, he’s inching closer to it. OF COURSE he’s getting closer, that’s John, my husband,…
From Analog to Digital – A Young Amateur Photographer Point of View
My name is Afonso Salgado, I’m an amateur photographer, born in Portugal, Lisbon. Currently, I’m an 18-year-old college student and I’m studying Psychology. I like to experiment a lot in photography but my main focus is street photography. How I started, my progress and my first cameras I discovered photography…
Shoshin: Cultivating a beginner’s mind in photography
Shoshin: Japanese term that translates to “beginner’s mind.” It embodies…
Amalfi Coast – A motor-biker travel, street and portrait reportage
I was born in Avellino, a small town some thirty-minute…
Listening to nature is more important than the photograph itself
Landscape photography makes me get out of the house, find…
Never go out without a camera – Interview with René Deenen
Thank you, René, for this opportunity to learn a little…
Straight talk about the State of Photography
Many thanks Joe for this opportunity! It is with immense…
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