Ultralight Photography

Here at Ultralight Photography, I’m usually all about shedding grams, ditching bulk, and dancing up mountains with featherweight kits. But sometimes—just sometimes—image quality wins the argument against weight. Enter the Fujifilm XF 50-140mm f/2.8 R LM OIS WR, a pro-grade telephoto zoom that’s built like a tank but shoots like a dream. I’ve owned this lens for a few years now, and while it’s rather far from ultralight, I’ve found it incredibly useful in situations where I don’t care that…

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Moravian Tuscany is a region in the southern Moravia, part of the Czech Republic. It actually is a part of Moravské Slovácko, but the term Tuscany is used by photographers for the small region west of town Kyjov, since its landscape resembles that of Tuscany. Some locals don’t like this term, as we learned from a farmer who was taking care of his vineyard, while tens of photographers were composing very similar images of the St. Barbara chapel nearby. Yes, the…

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