Mark Humpage was Olympus Visionary many years ago and is remembered by German fanboys for one action in particular: He took the E-5 and the Fisheye into the Blue Lagoon in Iceland and submerged it while the video was running:
Of course you have to go to the shower afterwards….
Mark mainly does timelapses, night shots and some icy experiments. A few years ago, Mark lost his Visionary status and never really appeared in the community again.
Now I’ve looked again – oh wonder, Mark is now an Ambassador. However, his YouTube channel “Giorgia” has been dead for a good seven years.
Unfortunately, OMSystem seems to have very clear guidelines about the amount of nonsense you have to post on your website in order to remain an Ambassador. Here, for example. The paragraph about moon photography. Yes, some astrophotographers take hundreds of photos – and he takes a single picture with the 100-400 and it’s just as good.
Many astro photographers take thousands of moon images (using a mounted telescope) and stack together via a lengthy monotonous post-processing process to achieve a single clear image. I was able to do this with the OM-1, the 100-400mm lens with a single image and hand held!
There are two possibilities: He doesn’t know any better or he’s telling us a cock-and-bull-story. If you’ve ever seen Siegfried’s moon photos, you’ll smile with pity – also taken with the OM-1, by the way.
And Mark Humpage actually sells NFTs.
I confess, I was a Humpage fan for many years, simply because of the fact that he showed what the Olys can take. That requires nerves of steel. Now I’m a little more critical. I’ve already written something about “storm chasers”, people who make a mass pilgrimage to a beach to take pictures of seals giving birth are not my admired heroes either, and that thing with the NFTs….
Nevertheless, I’m pleased that Mark Humpage is back. At least he doesn’t have any affiliate links on the website and simply sells pictures and merch. And if you’re still buying NFTs in 2024, it’s really your own fault.
The cover picture? Not by him, of course. That’s the Oksfjord Jokelen….