Robinwong

I have several photographs printed and exhibited at Ricoh Malaysia's GR Gallery at Eslite Bookstore in The Starhill, Bukit Bintang. It came as a surprise when I was invited so submit some images for this exhibition, because I was only briefly involved with Ricoh Malaysia for the launch of their GR IV last year. It was humbling to be featured and having my images displayed among ...

I did a fun experiment recently - I attached the Olympus MC-20 2X teleconverter on the old Four Thirds DSLR lens, Olympus 50-200mm F2.8-3.5. This combination officially is not compatible, but I managed to make it work. In order to attach the MC-20 Teleconverter, a compatible lens requires a receiving in to slot in a protruding part. The workaround was the Four Thirds to Micro Fo...

While I had too much fun playing with wide angle compositions during the Pak Peng Arcade job, I was also required to shoot the event like a normal event. To document what actually happened, wide angle lens was not sufficient, often times longer lenses are needed. In this situation, many photographers would prefer the use of zoom lenses for flexibility and convenience, but I chos...

The Olympus 60mm F2.8 Macro lens is one of the best macro lenses ever made, and also perhaps the most misunderstood one. The shortcut 1:1 dial on the lens is a convenient feature to have, it allows you to quickly jump to full magnification the lens is capable of. However, many people do not understand how the 1:1 dial works and they wish it to be a function that is impossible to...

I mentioned in my previous blog entry that I was shooting a job for Pak Peng Arcade, a mini festival take-over of the old Pak Peng building in downtown Kuala Lumpur, and I was using the Panasonic 9mm F1.7 for wide angle shots. I have had the Panasonic 9mm F1.7 for several years now and I did bring it to all my jobs but I did not find many use of wide angle for the kind of photog...