Biography

Roger has been involved in photography for over 30 years and has the unique distinction of being awarded four Fellowships of the Royal Photographic Society. .

Although Roger’s main interest is  Natural History, he does not limit himself to one ‘genre’ of photography and is accomplished in many other areas of photography, – landscape, portraits, sport, and photojournalism.

For virtually all his photographic career Roger was a confirmed Canon user.  He was, however, getting increasingly fed up carrying around heavy DSLRs and lenses, so in 2019 he decided to also try Olympus. Natural History photographers are a very discerning group of people, and they would not change unless the quality of a system was second to none .  Although a lot of photographers are happy to post their images ‘online’, Roger still believes that the best way of seeing a photographer`s final work is a mounted A3 print

Initially, Roger was concerned that the smaller sensor size of a micro four-thirds camera would not yield the same print quality of a full-frame DSLR.  When he started printing images for a new camera talk, he was amazed by how good the quality of the finished prints was. Even printing up as big as A2 size, every detail in the feathers of a bird can still be seen. Having `passed `this test with flying colours`, he had no doubts about ditching the Canon equipment and changing totally to Olympus.

In his words ‘I am now taking far more images with the Olympus that I ever did with Canon. My favourite lens is the 300m F4 Pro lens, coupled with the MC 14 teleconverter, which gives me the equivalent focal length of 840m on my old system. The beauty of this lens is how razor-sharp it is, very light, has Image Stabilisation that has to be seen to be believed, and it`s easy to carry around and handhold all day long. To achieve this focal length before I needed to carry around a very heavy Canon 600m lens, 1.4 converter, and because it was far too heavy for handheld shots, I also had to take a heavy tripod. Carrying all this gear around all day was no fun, so the change to Olympus was for me, a very simple decision! I also find I am taking shots with the Olympus that I would never have attempted with the Canon.’ You can view my full range of work by visiting my web site at www.rogerhancefrps.com