ROBIN WONG

During my last week's Live Stream on YouTube, I shared a short compilation of my favorite images shot in the year 2024. Many of the images were sample images taken while testing cameras or lenses for reviews. It is strange that these images made it into my favorite list, because the usual test images are dry and uninteresting. I always do my best to use whatever camera or lens that I am testing for reviews in the best way possible, shooting

It is my birthday today, and I officially have turned 40. That sounds so surreal, I really cannot believe I am hitting 40 already. In the midst of all the tornado of busy activities happening around me, I'd like to take a small moment to just commemorate this mini milestone in my life. I feel blessed and extremely fortunate to be alive, being surrounded by amazing and kind people all the time, for that I cannot ask for more in life.

Merry Christmas and happy holidays to all you awesome people!Life has been a tornado lately, with back-to-back projects and shoots. It was a miracle that I managed to keep my deadlines and still deliver everything in time. On top of the usual photography jobs, making YouTube videos and doing Live Streams, I am currently also taking on more sponsored content on my YouTube channel as well as collaboration projects with local camera distributors. Some of these details I cannot share yet

There is a super awesome exhibition featuring 12 local Malaysian artists happening now at Sasana Kijang (Bank Negara Malaysia) titled - JIWA MEMBUMI. The official translation of the title to English is "the soul of the land". The exhibition is comprised of mixed media presentation, digital projection, sculpture pieces, paintings and a majority of the exhibits are of course, photography prints! Both my good friends Azul Adnan and Grace Ho (whom I have talked about previously) are also highlighting this show,

My friend Kevin from Australia gifted me a circular fisheye lens, the 7Artisans 4mm F2.8 for Micro Four Thirds, so I took this opportunity to get out of my comfort zone and go insanely wide with my latest street outing session. The 7Artisans 4mm gives an extremely wide coverage of 225 degrees field of view, that is more than 180 degrees vertically and horizontally. That was an extremely challenging setup, trying to compose with such wide angle frame, I accidentally fitted

Continuing from previous post, as I was still playing with the Panasonic 14-140mm F4-5.8, this time I brought it out on a street outing. It was an outing organized and hosted by the celebrity crazy famous local photographer, Abeden Mung, and I was merely participating. We had over 200 people showing up for this mini gathering, so I was just wandering around doing my own things. I think street photography is personal and I just pointing the lens at anything that

I attended a KLPAC (Kuala Lumpur Performing Arts Center) show several months ago titled RWD/FWD as an audience, with a fixed seating, but I still wanted to work the camera to grab some shots. I figured the best solution would be a superzoom, the wide focal length coverage from wide angle to telephoto allowed me to do more with just one lens. And let's face it, this was not a job, I could not be bothered with the hassle of changing

The second part of my test with the NiSi 49mnm Close Up lens was using it on my own Olympus 60mm F2.8 Macro. The Olympus 60mm macro lens alone can achieve 100% magnification, and by quick ruler measurement, by attaching the NiSi 49mm Close Up Lens, I can take the magnification further to a whooping 158%, which was incredible! I took this opportunity to shoot smaller critters, or go even closer to the bugs revealing more details on their eyes, and

NiSi contacted me and asked if I were interested in testing their Close Up Lens and I immediately said yes. It is not an every day opportunity to collaborate with a company doing insect macro photography, something I am quite passionate about. I did tell them that if I don't like the product, I will continue with the review, but it turned out that I was quite impressed by what the  Close Up Lens can do. Basically, the NiSi Close Up

One of the amazing things about Micro Four Thirds system is the collection of really awesome compact sized, portable lenses that are excellent in optics design and can deliver great results. Sometimes it still puzzles me how something so tiny-ly built can render astoundingly sharp and beautiful results. Even the lowlist kit lens from Micro Four Thirds is no slouch either, they are impressively sharp. I compiled a list of 5 best budget lenses for Micro Four Thirds system under USD150