ROBIN WONG

This is a continuation from previous post, sharing more images from my recent shoot for KLPAC (Kuala Lumpur Performing Arts Centre), the Tekka audio visual festival 2025. Basically, the festival ran for 3 consecutive days, and I was shooting nonstop for almost 3 full days. Despite the challenging low light situation, I managed to get some really good shots with my Micro Four Thirds setup. I brought along the Olympus OM-D E-M1 Mark II and prime lenses, Panasonic 9 and 15mm F1.7, and Olympus 25mm, 45mm and 75mm F1.8 lenses. I just find it so much easier to handle smaller lenses, allowing me to change them around quickly and more efficiently, and of course, all that (camera + 5 lenses) being fitted in my shoulder bag, they weighed less than 1.4kg only! If I were to use any other systems, no matter how minimal and lightweight the setup, it could easily double or triple that! I really appreciate how I don't have to suffer all kinds of discomfort or aches after long hours of shooting, handling Micro Four Thirds super light gear! These images I am sharing here in this blog entry were from the Day 2 of Tekka!

I was shooting an event for Kuala Lumpur Performing Arts Centre (KLPAC) recently, it was an audio-visual festival called Tekka, and boy oh boy was it a challenging shoot! Not only was the light so dim most of the times, but there were also times when all lights were turned off, and to get some images I need to balance the overly bright projector against pitch dark audience! While this seems like a nightmare and most people would prefer to shoot with full frame cameras and ramp up the ISO to impossibly high numbers, I'd like to argue that Micro Four Thirds is actually more suitable in this particular shoot. I talked about all my reasons in my latest video, which I am not going to repeat here, as these reasons have been said several times before already, and honestly all I want to do is just to share the images from that job here. Images were shot with Olympus OM-D E-M1 Mark II and Panasonic 9mm F1.7, Panasonic 15mm F1.7, Olympus 25mm F1.8, Olympus 45mm F1.8 and Olympus 75mm F1.8. 

I honestly don't know what happened, I made this video about why Panasonic should bring back the GX7 more than a year ago, and never got to publish it until today. You can check out the video here (click). I guess there were more urgent and time sensitive videos to publish at that time, and the old, non important video got pushed further and further down the buffer list, I almost forgot it ever existed. I think Panasonic GX-series cameras will do really well today, there is a massive demand for compact sized classic styled camera with high imaging capabilities, and the GX series fit those criteria. If only Panasonic could bring out the latest GX10 with updated image sensor, better AF capabilities (with phase detect) and some newer modern tech, the GX10 will fly! 

Happy New Year 2026 to all you awesome people out there! Let's start the new year with a bang! I found the old Panasonic Lumix G1 in the used market and I just could not help myself. The Panasonic G1 was an extremely important camera in the history, not only was it the first Micro Four Thirds camera, but it was also the first mirrorless camera ever launched in the industry. It paved the way forward for the mirrorless revolution, and fast-forward to now in 2026, all other camera manufacturers also have their own mirrorless cameras! I brought the Panasonic G1 out for some shutter therapy, and I made a video to talk about what I like and dislike about it, you can check out the video here (click). It was still quite a fun, capable camera to shoot with today!

When my fingers get a little itchy for some shutter clicking action, and I do not intend to travel far from where I live, the easiest solution to satisfy that itch would be to just go to a park nearby and do some insect macro hunting. The park is where I normally film my YouTube videos, and it is not a small park, with some luck and a bit of exploring around, you can find some really cool bugs to shoot. I brought the Olympus 60mm F2.8 Macro lens and mounted it on OM System OM-1 camera body, together with the use of Olympus FL-50R external flashed with AK diffuser attached, I found some cool creatures within just an hour and half of shooting time! 

This is a continuation from the previous post about me using an old Olympus Zuiko Digital 50mm F2 Macro lens to shoot some portraits of Lily. Previous I'd stuff as many images as I can in a single blog entry, but that made each post so over bloated, that it almost became an endless scroll to get to all the photographs. These days, I am playing smart, why not split them into multiple entries? Here I am featuring Lily in a different dress, on the same shoot/same day, and oh I forgot to mention the location was downtown Kuala Lumpur in Bukit Bintang area. Lily was so nice to work with, and man that Olympus 50mm F2 lens still produces such amazing results!

I have had the old Olympus Zuiko Digital 50mm F2 Macro lens since the Four Thirds DSLR days, but I never used it on my newer Micro Four Thirds cameras, until recently. I attached the Olympus 50mm F2 lens on my OM System OM-1 (via a 3rd party adapter) and brought this combination out to shoot some lovely portraits of my friend, Lily (click). I was pleasantly surprised by the performance of the lens despite its age, it played well with the OM-1, with more than sufficiently functional autofocus, and the image rendering as expected from this legendary Olympus lens was beautiful - super sharp like a PRO grade lens with creamy smooth bokeh. Special thanks to Lily fo being such an amazing model!