Olympus Passion Photography Magazine – March 2023!
An eclectic photographer – Interview with Giampaolo Mascalzoni
Photography is my Passion – Interview with Hermann Limacher
Don’t be afraid to stumble, but choose your stones carefully
Olympus Passion Photography Magazine – February 2023!
Capturing the beauty of Florida’s birds with the OM SYSTEM OM-1
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Photos of Everyday Life – Olympus PEN-F
My name is Sam Thompson, and I work as a management accountant for a utility company in Guernsey, one of the Channel Islands just off the coast of France. It is a small island of 65,000 people. I was born in Belfast, Northern Ireland in 1961, the youngest of three…
Using the E-M1 Mark II and the Holy Trinity of M.Zuiko PRO lenses for Wedding Photography
Hi, my name is Boris Štuller, I am 32 years old, and I am based in Havířov, Czech Republic. I work at Siemens as an expert focusing on digitization and automation of accounting processes in most cases. Apart from my love for photography, I do all kinds of sports such…
The Advantage of Compact Digital Cameras in Vlogging
Pocket cameras are not a new thing in photography, but every year we see a new generation of cameras which are smaller and at the same time packed with cool new features. In the era of mirrorless cameras, it’s really hard to complain about features that these cameras are offering,…
Bird photography experience with the Olympus E-M1 Mark II
Equipped with two Olympus OM-D E.M1 Mark II bodies I started the new year and my main interest was to test them for my purpose. My focus hereby was not so much anymore the comparison between DSLR and MFT, pixel peeping or checking all the technical spec promises from Olympus…
Lens Comparison: Olympus 25mm f1.2 Pro vs Panasonic 25mm f1.4 DG & D
This article is the test of these three 25mm lens for the M43 cameras: Micro 4/3: Olympus 25mm F/1.2 Pro Micro 4/3: Panasonic 25mm DG F/1.4 4/3 Lens: Panasonic D 25mm F/1.4 + Olympus the MMF-2 (4/3 to Micro 4/3 Adapter) Click the images to see in high resolution directly…
E-M5 family
Making-of a documentary short film, with Olympus E-M5 Mk II
I am often asked what is my process as I make the kind of documentary short films that I like to make (and that I appear to be good at if you believe the clients who hire me and the the film festivals who select my work for screening). …
February issue
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Premium/ Keeping photography fun and enjoyable
Travel Photography can be one of the most straightforward genres for a photographer to get started, during a family vacation or a business trip. But to master it, requires a lot of hard work, continuous learning and persistence. In this interview with Olivier Costier – travel and landscape photographer, we…
Premium/ The “1917”
Hi guys, I am honored to be asked to write about our photo essay called “1917”.I got the idea for the photoshoot from the model, Rosa, who got her father’s old uniform. She asked me if I would be interested to do a photoshoot with her, and if we could…
Premium/ How to improve the battery performance of your Olympus camera
When I switched from Canon DSLRs to a mirrorless system, the last thing I thought about was the battery life. I had more to think about, like file quality, construction, lenses, weight, features… After starting to use mirrorless equipment, I noticed some difference in battery life to what I was…
Visual Stories
Prague: The city of thousands of spires
Living in Prague for 25 years, Martin Pavinger knows the city as the back of his hands, therefore, over this time he had the opportunity to discover the best spots…
Walking and photographing
Walking is not only good for your health, it allows us to think about things, or nothing, listen to music, listen to nature and, why not, also be an opportunity…
Pietà
Summer holidays are over, and I need to get into “work mode”. For that, nothing better than a weekend in the region of Lousã, in Portugal. A mountainous area, with…
An old soul
Milan Degraeve loves everything that is old, all the vintage stuff, because he can sense the amount of work that went into making these products with the few resources they…
Therapy in a backpack
Hi, my name is Jason Duarttee. I’m a 27-year-old living in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Originally, I’m from South Africa. In 2018, I moved to Amsterdam to be with my girlfriend, who I met when she was on holiday in South Africa. I currently work as a field engineer at a…
Patience, Persistence and a Little Luck
The Mueller Hut, New Zealand After ascending and pressing forward through heavy rain and cold wind the evening before, my effort and perseverance has brought me here. Here, of all places. It feels like I shouldn’t be here, but there lies the glacier before me – in all its grandeur…
Lofoten: The Untamed Islands
Biography About 35 years ago, I bought my first camera, a Minolta X700, and started photographing. After lots of experimenting in those early years, the results improved. A meeting with an advertiser changed my life forever; he ‘discovered’ my work and I grew into the role of a professional photographer.…
Chasing the light
Hi, my name is Sati. I am 39, and I live in İstanbul. I have two great models that help me when I need – My husband and son. I work as an accounting manager in a private company. I also am an amateur photographer who takes photos, even in…
Dark Waters – Good Vibrations
On a recent trip to California I had the opportunity to shoot at Huntington Beach for an evening and came away from that time with a series of images that inspired me to try something different. This short blog post will talk about what I was shooting, how I shot…
This week’s best on Instagram
Hi everyone, it’s Friday again! As usual, we have selected a set of photos posted on Instagram with the @olympuspassion tag for your inspiration. Because we also learn by seeing the work of others. Have a great weekend! Susan Lash – @sz_lash @fusao_kannoOlympus Tough TG-6 @alexthinkwell Damian H – @dam.he…
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…
Live Composite with the Olympus OM-D cameras
Live Composite is one of the most exciting features in Olympus OM-D cameras. It makes long exposure photography much easier. In Live Composite mode the camera shoots a series of…
Less is more!
Hi, all! My name is Arvydas. I’m a construction engineer currently living in Oslo, Norway. All my life, I was a numbers guy: complex calculations, problem-solving, a lot of different…
The unpredictability of the sky
Hi there… My name is Reto Aerni, I’m 55 and a passionate Swiss amateur photographer. I live in the Virgo Supercluster, located in the second-largest galaxy of the cluster -…
Expressing creativity through Photography
As an engineer, Moises Cugat felt the need to find a hobby and express himself artistically. Photography was his choice, with a particular interest in landscapes.In this interview, Moises tells…
Apple Mac Mini M1 for photographers – A compact but powerful workstation
Hello! My name is Rikard Landberg (@landberg on Instagram), and I mostly shoot documentary projects. During the pandemic, most of my projects are on hold and instead, I have been…
Lives captured in parts of a second
My name is Cliff Harvey. I’m a 77 year old American expat, living in England. My first ‘proper’ camera was a Pentax Spotmatic with the standard 50mm lens. I bought…
Finding creativity, with the Olympus E-M1 Mark III
Hello everyone. My name is Iñigo, and I live in Vigo, Galicia, on the northwest coast of Spain. Vigo is an industrial city by the sea with an amazing maritime…
Premium/ Panning photography of nature
My name is Mikkel Due Andersen. I am 43 years old and an all things nature photographer from Denmark. I live on the amazing rock island of Bornholm, where you…
Olympus OM-D E-M1X – 2 years later
The OM-D E-M1X has recently blown out the second candle. Launched on the world market in February 2019, the Olympus super flagship was the most ambitious camera ever made by…
Nikolaos L. Zagas – Award Winner Sports Photographer
Hi Nikos! Could you start by introducing yourself to the readers? I was born and raised on one of the most beautiful Greek islands, Corfu. From an early age I…
My style with Olympus
Darrell fell in love with photography while reading National Geographic magazines. At the age of 24, he started taking photography seriously, and when he was introduced to the off-camera flash,…
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