ROBIN WONG

Moving into the mirrorless interchangeable lens system world, Olympus has poured dedication into advancing the Micro Four Thirds camera and lenses. The highly successful Olympus OM-D E-M5 and the multiple award winning OM-D E-M1 have made it clear that generally the crowd still leans positively toward DSLR-styled camera with a good viewfinder and ergonomics (not being too small, and still handling well in hand). We know well that the E-M5 was a mid-range enthusiast camera, and the E-M1 was targetted

Trying very hard. Really. But no matter how I shoot something always seems missing, something is not right, something is not balanced, and something could be better. I don't think I will ever understand how this focal length can be such a highly recommended focal length. I know this is probably personal and subjective, but trust me when I say I am still giving it a chance. Here is a collection of some photos I have taken with the Olympus M.Zuiko

I have often been told by people who liked my series of street photographs that, the one thing that stood out for them was the way the people looked at me, or at my camera. To be entirely honest, I have never really given that much of a thought to how people looked at me. The only tip I can give, or share, is to smile, and be nice. After all, how people looked at you is actually their spontaneous

I have been receiving many requests to share my workflow for post-processing which I have used for the photographs shown in this blog. I know I can ramble on and on with long descriptions, then it hit me life would be so much simpler if I can just create a screen video capture and just show it here! 

Olympus DSLR E-5, 50mm F2 macro and FL-36R wireless TTL Flash. 

High ISO performance of a camera has always been the overrated issue debated by virtually every online photography groups and forums, and it was as if the only thing that mattered in photography. I never overemphasized on the importance of high ISO noise control, but I do acknowledge the importance of being able to push that extra bit of sensor ISO numbers just to gather a bit more light. In the case of last night, I was shooting live performance

When shooting on the street, I prefer to deal with available light, mainly for simplicity and easy execution. As abundantly available as the sun light, it is still very crucial to take into considerations lighting aspects in a photograph. The quality of direction and quality of light can significantly affect the outcome of any photographs, and this is especially true for portrait or people photos. It always pays at the end of the day if extra effort and attention were

It has been a long while since i last used the M.Zuiko 75mm F1.8 lens extensively, hence I decided to use this one lens only for my morning shutter therapy session at Pudu earlier today. It was a difficult focal length to use being too long for most subjects that appear to be very short distance from the camera. Nonetheless, a little challenge will make things more interesting, and surely pushed me to try even harder to get good shots.

Ming Thein a strong supporter of Olympus OM-D system, as well as a photographer whom I admire a lot, is having his first photography exhibition of the year at Centre for Asian Photographer, running the whole month of January 2014, and Olympus Malaysia sponsored a reception launch earlier this afternoon. It was great seeing Ming Thein exhibiting his photographs, all taken with either his Medium Format camera, or our Olympus OM-D system. This is a living testimony that Olympus OM-D system

One of the frequently thrown questions to me when people saw my photography work is "why black and white?". I usually do not have a straight and consistent answer. I guess it all comes down to personal preference and reasons for choosing to remove colors from a photograph. I do think some photograph appear a lot more compelling and expressive when the colors are absent. For example, the following photograph. I personally lean towards the B&W version. I do not know

Important Note: 1. I am an Olympus Malaysia employee.  2. This is a user experience based review, based on my personal opinion which can be subjective. 3. All images were shot in RAW and converted directly to JPEG (High Quality) via Olympus Viewer 2. 4. General camera settings, Noise Filter = OFF, Contrast/Saturation/sharpness = 0, White Balance = Auto (with an option maintain warm color = OFF), Gradation = Normal 5. No post-processing applied to the images, except slight brightness/contrast

Happy New Year 2014 to all you beautiful people! I have been busy shooting and it was for a blog review of this new camera, of course from Olympus. I am in the midst of shooting and compiling my images and should be writing my full review soon.   I shall show a few of the images I have taken so far with this new camera, and can you guess which camera and lens combination used to take the following images?