I miss shooting tennis. It has been years since I last caught a tournament live, and I am glad I shot the KL Open 2025, using this opportunity to test the new OM System 50-200mm F2.8 IS PRO. I find it strange that many reviewers or content creators tested this lens for wildlife photography. Not that the lens isn't suitable for wildlife, I thought it was also an awesome lens that can perform incredibly well shooting sports. It did deliver great results from the tennis sessions, and I got some keeper shots I was quite satisfied with. Continuing from the previous blog post (click), I am sharing more images taken with the OM System 50-200mm F2.8 PRO on my OM-1 in this entry. 

Special thanks to OM System Malaysia, I got the loaner OM System 50-200mm F2.8 IS PRO lens to play with over the weekend. Coincidentally, there was a local tennis tournament happening, so I brought the OM System 50-200mm PRO mounted on my OM-1 to shoot some sports action at the Kuala Lumpur Open 2025. With versatile zoom range, long focal length that reaches 200mm, constant F2.8 aperture and powerful stabilization, I find this to be an awesome lens for sports photography! I have also made a video about this session; you can check it out here (click). 

 People often overlook and underestimate what a kit lens can do, but I believe they are versatile and fully capable in delivering awesome results. Here is the harsh truth - even if you upgrade to the sharper, more expensive, higher PRO grade lens, it won't improve your photography a bit. The kit lens is often more than sufficient in most shooting scenarios, and I am proving that it can shoot beautiful images with my recent shutter therapy outings, using the Olympus M.Zuiko 12-50mm F3.5-6.3 on my Olympus OM-D E-M1 Original. I have also made a video to share my thoughts here (click). 

 The adventures with the fun toy camera, Kodak Charmera continues! This time, I brought it out to shoot some nice portraits of my friend, Lily and I thought it would be fun to try out the black and white feature this time. While the images do appear very low in resolution due to the 1.6MP sensor used in the Kodak Charmera, image quality isn't the priority of the session. I intentionally added coarse grain in post-processing to take off some of the artificial digital smearing of details, rendering less plasticky looking results. The unexpected outcome was that these images look like they were cut out from newspaper! Another day, another fun outing with the Kodak Charmera!

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