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My Passion for the great outdoors

My Passion for the great outdoors

Chris ScaldwellMar 21, 20241
I was privileged when asked by Hugo to write a small article about my use of Olympus camera equipment and also must start by praising the work Hugo and his colleagues do in raising the awareness of the beautiful subject of photography in which we all share the joy of… My name is Chris Scaldwell, […]
Olympus Passion Photography Magazine – March 2024!

Olympus Passion Photography Magazine – March 2024!

olympuspassionMar 19, 20240
Hello everyone!The March issue has arrived. This edition features fantastic and talented photographers and highlights their beautiful imagery, from portraits to landscapes. As always, each piece of work, each photograph, was made with an Olympus camera.Each month we realize that Olympus cameras are, in fact, the best tools for every kind of work for this […]
How I capture life

How I capture life

David John TurnbullMar 14, 20240
It was a dreary day in Toronto — but only outside. There were some really nice emotions going on inside this restaurant in our Chinatown district. Inspired by Walker Evans, I decided to capture it. The camera wasn’t really noticeable (just hanging low from around my neck), and I decided to keep it that way. […]
Premium/ Behind the Lens: Olympus PEN E-PL8 Photo Adventures (VIDEO)

Premium/ Behind the Lens: Olympus PEN E-PL8 Photo Adventures (VIDEO)

olympuspassionMar 1, 20243
In this photography journey, Hugo Pinho embarks on an unconventional choice. Venturing to the serene banks of the Mondego River in Portugal, he deliberately left behind the PEN-F, the OM-D, and his array of lenses. Instead, he embraced the unexpected companion – the Olympus PEN E-PL8, a compact 16-megapixel mirrorless camera introduced in 2016.   […]
Tatra Mountains, my quiet haven

Tatra Mountains, my quiet haven

Hi, my name is Przemek, I am 35 years old, and I come from the beautiful historical region of Jaworzno, a city located in southern Poland on the Silesian-Krakow Upland in the Silesian Voivodeship. I am an occupational health and safety engineer by education, but my current professional work has little to do with my […]
I travel to get to know the world in its different facets!

I travel to get to know the world in its different facets!

Mirjam RadkeFeb 19, 20241
My name is Mirjam Radke, I am 39 years old and work as a project manager for a well-known project developer and builder in Munich. My passions besides photography are travelling, hiking in the Alps and diving. I report on my experiences in a travel blog. When I was a child, I travelled with my […]
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The E-M5 between travel and portrait photography

The E-M5 between travel and portrait photography

Jason FontanaJan 8, 20200

I take photos to relax and decompress. I’m from a small Italian town one hour away from Venice. Like many other photographers these days, I learned photography by experimenting with my camera and reading online. Over the years, most of my work had focused on landscape and travel photography, where…

The Olympus EP2 and Infrared Photography

The Olympus EP2 and Infrared Photography

Will LanglandsFeb 23, 20210

Hi, my name is Will Langlands. I’m a full-time gardener, amateur photographer and occasional scribbler. I live in Mid Argyll on the west coast of Scotland. I love being out and about in the Argyll countryside where we are surrounded by beautiful wild scenery, ancient forests and rugged beaches, lochs,…

PEN-F: Unleashing the Beast

PEN-F: Unleashing the Beast

Eduardo MarquezSep 3, 20183

My name is Eduardo Marquez and I live on the sunny island of Palma de Mallorca, Spain. Originally from Argentina, my father and I settled on the island back in 1989 after living in Latin America for the first 15 years of my life. My first contact with photography was…

I just bought a new Olympus, the Olympus 4

I just bought a new Olympus, the Olympus 4

Hugo PinhoJan 10, 20222

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…

Apple Mac Mini M1 for photographers – A compact but powerful workstation

Apple Mac Mini M1 for photographers – A compact but powerful workstation

Rikard LandbergApr 26, 20210

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 photographing my family. I use an E-M1 MarkII with two lenses, 12mm f/2 and 17mm f/1.8. Enough about cameras. Now…

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Premium/ Keeping photography fun and enjoyable

Premium/ Keeping photography fun and enjoyable

Olivier CostierDec 3, 2020

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/ Field Notes: Sigma 56mm f1.4 DC DN Contemporary for MFT

Premium/ Field Notes: Sigma 56mm f1.4 DC DN Contemporary for MFT

Alex CirtanNov 13, 2020

Alright, here goes: Olympus? Micro four thirds? But there’s no bokeh, blah blah. Some people cannot do math nor compose that’s for sure. But I didn’t even start and already digressed.  Olympus E-M5 MK III . Sigma 56mmF1.4 @56mm . f/1.8 . 1/3200″ . ISO 200 MFT is new for…

Premium/ How to improve the battery performance of your Olympus camera

Premium/ How to improve the battery performance of your Olympus camera

Maurício ReisMay 6, 2020

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…

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Walking and photographing

Walking and photographing

Maurício ReisSep 27, 2020

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…

An old soul

An old soul

Milan DegraeveJun 12, 2020

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…

Pietà

Pietà

Hugo PinhoAug 27, 2020

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…

Prague: The city of thousands of spires

Prague: The city of thousands of spires

Martin PavingerJul 19, 2020

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…

Roaming the streets with an Olympus OM-D EM-10

Roaming the streets with an Olympus OM-D EM-10

Markus BinzeggerJun 7, 20192

My name is Markus Binzegger. I was born and raised in Zug, a picturesque town in Central Switzerland located between Zurich and Lucerne. And – guess what – I still live there. Zug is famous for its low taxes, kirsch, beautiful sunsets and, well, street photographers. Thomas Leuthard, who was…

Interview with the Pulitzer-Prize winner and Olympus Visionary, Jay Dickman

Interview with the Pulitzer-Prize winner and Olympus Visionary, Jay Dickman

Jay DickmanFeb 27, 20170

Hello Jay! What an honor for us to have you for an interview. Would you like to start by introducing yourself? Hi, I’m Jay Dickman. I’m a photojournalist/reportage/documentary/daily life photographer. I was fortunate to have won a Pulitzer Prize in photography, and I’m a National Geographic photographer. ).push({});

About People

About People

Çetin AlkiliçJul 2, 2021

Hi everyone, my name is Çetin. I was born in a small town called Kars, located just near the eastern border of Turkey. However, I spent most of my life…

Endless Creative Possibilities With Olympus OMD

Endless Creative Possibilities With Olympus OMD

Martin StrasserSep 13, 2019

Hi Martin! It’s an honour to have once again, this time for an interview. For the ones who haven’t read your previous article, would you like to start by introducing…

Live Composite with the Olympus OM-D cameras

Live Composite with the Olympus OM-D cameras

Peter ForsgårdApr 8, 2017

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…

Doing beautiful portraits and other subjects with Olympus

Doing beautiful portraits and other subjects with Olympus

Winfried HermannSep 24, 2021

Hi there, my name is Winfried Hermann. I’m German, I grew up in South Baden, close to the Swiss border and live now in Bavaria, near Munich. I’m 61 years…

Olympus OM-D E-M1 mark II – Why did I replace my equipment

Olympus OM-D E-M1 mark II – Why did I replace my equipment

Patrik StaněkNov 21, 2017

For the past few years I have contended that FF (full frame DSLR) is the best option possible for animal photography. I was pretty satisfied with my set of D810…

The Olympus OM-Ds in Antarctica

The Olympus OM-Ds in Antarctica

Steve GoslingApr 11, 2017

The Expedition In November 2016 I had the pleasure of being an instructor on a Luminous Landscape workshop to South Georgia & Antarctica. Both locations have been on my bucket…

Breaking free to find you

Breaking free to find you

Courtney ArndtNov 21, 2022

Take a moment and ask yourself, “What is it that I enjoy doing, and how does that influence my unique perspective?” It’s worth asking, since it has the power to…

Olympus – Still the best choice

Olympus – Still the best choice

Laith StevensAug 5, 2021

It has been a while since my last story was published in Olympus Passion Magazine, in Edition #23, April 2019, and I am delighted to submit this story to a…

Never go out without a camera – Interview with René Deenen

Never go out without a camera – Interview with René Deenen

René DeenenJun 1, 2023

Thank you, René, for this opportunity to learn a little more about you and your beautiful photographic work! Could you start by introducing yourself?I’m a 46-year-old photography enthusiast, based in…

Photography is my Passion – Interview with Hermann Limacher

Photography is my Passion – Interview with Hermann Limacher

Hermann LimacherFeb 27, 2023

Thank you, Hermann, for your availability for this interview! Could you start by introducing yourself to our readers and tell us when you first became interested in photography?I’m Hermann Limacher,…

Everyone and Everything has a story to tell

Everyone and Everything has a story to tell

Tom PalJan 9, 2023

My BackgroundA little background on myself before we dig into my take on the passion we all love. I was born in Budapest, Hungary and emigrated to the United States…

Olympus E-M1X – A Nature Photographer’s Perspective

Olympus E-M1X – A Nature Photographer’s Perspective

Peter BaumgartenAug 15, 2019

Disclosure: I am an Olympus Visionary and as such, receive compensation from Olympus America. However, no compensation was paid for this review. I endorse their products because I truly believe…

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