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Photographing Animals with Nikon 1 – Guest Post by Thomas Stirr

18/03/2016 By Heather 15 Comments

Like many folks I enjoy taking photographs of various animals including mammals, reptiles, birds and bugs. I’ve never been on a safari or done any kind of wilderness photography adventure. As a result my images are a mix of captive specimens as well as photographs of species that are either local to me or are ones that I found while on vacation.

My Move to Mirrorless Weddings – Guest post by Steve Gemmell

17/02/2016 By Heather 3 Comments

As a professional UK-based Hertfordshire wedding photographer of some twelve years standing I have now switched to a completely mirrorless camera system. I started using a Fujifilm X-Pro1 camera four years ago and have gradually progressed to two X-T1s an X-E1, an X100T and also a Ricoh GR11. I have now sold all of my Canon kit which I used for many years.

My Journey to the Olympus System – Guest post by Craig Roberts

14/12/2015 By Heather Leave a Comment

Pentax P30, Canon T90, Mamiya RZ67, Fuji GX617, Holga, Zero Image 2000, Canon 5D, Panasonic GF1, Canon 5D MKII, Olympus E-M5, Olympus E-P5, Olympus E-M1 … that’s my camera history in brief! The most significant thing since the Mamiya and the Fuji is how my cameras have shrunk in size. I still can’t believe the weight I used to carry around with a full kit of camera body, lenses and filters. No wonder I have a weak back these days!

I still have the Canon gear, but it’s getting used less and less these days. I can see it being sold in the not too distant future, as it seems to spend more time at home sat in a Lowepro bag than out on-location taking pictures.

A manual focus 800mm telephoto lens for mirrorless cameras: Review of the Tokina 400 SD AF400 AT-X with an Olympus OM-D E-M1

16/09/2015 By Heather 2 Comments

My book and calendar, Sinai: Landscape and Nature in Egypt’s Wilderness, represents an evolution towards smaller cameras and lenses, from the first photographs taken with heavy SLRs cameras that used slide film, to the early DSLRs, and finally settling on micro four thirds (m43) and high end point and shoot cameras. The weight savings of switching systems from SLRs and DSLRs to the micro 4/3 system has been significant. The weight loss is really noticeable when using micro 4/3 cameras with telephoto lenses, which provide 2x the focal length with only half of the weight.

Two Weeks in the Balkans with the Fujinon XF 16-55mm F2.8 – Guest Post by Ugo Cei

03/09/2015 By Mathieu 8 Comments

Two weeks, five countries and more than 3,000km.

I had been planning this trip for months: a long drive from Italy, across Slovenia, and down along the Dalmatian coast of Croatia into Montenegro, with a side trip to Mostar, Bosnia and Herzegovina, all places that I had been wanting to visit for years, but that (aside from a short trip to Croatia last year) I had never set foot onto.