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It’s one thing keeping your camera kit safe from the weather and damage while hiking and hillwalking , but what’s the best way of carrying your camera while hiking and walking? However you decide to do it, you’ll still need to make sure it keeps that expensive MILC/DSLR secure and safe from damage, easily accessible […]
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When you’ve spent a small fortune on your DSLR, shiny new mirrorless or vintage film camera, you need to make sure you look after your investment in the great outdoors. Compact cameras are easily looked after with a clam case, drybag and a convenient pocket but their larger brethren can cause a bit of a
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George Minton, from CamerAseals.com shares his top tips on how to take good hill walking photos on your smartphone. Read on to find out more. Everyone loves to travel! It gives people time to relax and, at the same time, gives them an opportunity to meet new people and explore amazing places. This is the
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While on the move, you don’t really want to be weighed down by tons of photographic equipment. Here’s our choice of a DSLR quality lightweight setup that’s suitable even for trail runners! The Camera While the ultimate in ultralight photography is arguably using a high end smartphone, for us that’s a compromise too far. While you
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Best British outdoor Instagram accounts to follow in 2016 Do you love following outdoor accounts on Instagram? We share what we think are the best British outdoor Instagram accounts to follow in 2016. Mud and Routes has an Instagram account and we’re lucky to have a passionate audience looking to consume, share, inspire and be inspired! Keeping the
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Sometimes, walking to the summit of Snowdon may not be for you. Maybe you’re after a shorter walk to suit your fitness or group, perhaps you want to avoid the snow or you want something that can be followed in the dark. The Miner’s Track as far as Glaslyn fits all these criteria (though it
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Guest post on Winter Photography in Snowdonia by Snowdonia based photographer, and friend of the site Richard Outram Winter photography in Snowdonia Winter has arrived in Snowdonia. The summer colours and burnt autumn tones are fast becoming a memory as the landscape prepares itself for the dark months of ice and snow. As a landscape
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Photographers can be not only difficult to buy for, but expensive! Here are a few inexpensive gift idea for the outdoor photographer which prove that there are still some bits of photography kit that need not break the bank. We’ve not included memory cards in here as that’s the photographic gift equivalent of socks. They’re
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Terra Nova are better known for their tents, but also have a good line in walking poles. A new addition to this range is the Terra Nova Unipod, a walking pole that doubles as a monopod. As a walking pole, the Unipod is sturdy and well made, weighing in at a reasonable 310g. That’s significantly
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Having upgraded to a full frame Canon EOS 6D recently, the first lesson was that you really need the glass to go with it! Having had a lot of use out of the Tokina 11-16mm over the previous year, it was disappointing to realise that this lens was no longer much use for night photography
Rokinon / Samyang 14mm f2.4 Prime Gallery Notes Read More »
Some of you might remember our article on the Joby Gorilla Pod and how impressed we were with a tripod option without the hassle of heavy weight in the pack. Well we think we’ve found an equally ingenious option! The Trail Pix is the brainchild of Andy Stough a professional engineer from Cary, NC, USA
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As you may have gathered, we’re keen fans of a bit of the night photography at Mud and Routes, so we’re thrilled to hear that the Snowdonia National Park has been awarded the Dark Sky Reserve Status for the national park under the “Seeing Stars” campaign. Not a minute too soon we think! Snowdonia is
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You’ve spent a small fortune on your camera lenses, it would be daft not to protect them as much as possible. That’s especially so for the more adventurous photographer where a standard camera bag just doesn’t cut it and your pack is likely to be involved in numerous scrapes during the day. Lens pouches provide
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If you read our article on Alternatives to Tripods in the Wilds – then here’s a follow up review on the Joby Gorillapod SLR-Zoom for DSLR and video cameras that’s good for kit up to 3 kilos. For those of you who haven’t heard of the Gorillapod and probably been in a cave for the last few
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We told you how we keep our camera kit safe on the hill, but what do we class as an essential bit of kit for our camera bag when we’re out on the mountains? Not your bag of course, as it depends on your own style of photography, pet lenses and budget. Here’s what we’ve
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We recently posted some ideas on Alternatives to Tripods and wondered how effective some of the ideas would be for some more serious long exposure photography. So we set off with a newly acquired Trailpix, Gorillapod SLR and a top notch Canon EOS 6D camera to see if we’d get anything worthwhile with these at
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I managed to get out to Cwm Idwal tonight – considering that Mud and Routes has acquired a spanking new Canon EOS 6d full frame camera. It was a lot of playing about, learning the ropes, but managed to be seriously impressed with this bit of kit! The image below was taken in the gloaming,
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If you’re keen on landscape photography, but loathe to carry a tripod, here’s a few suggestions that might let you get away with it when that essential shot rears it’s head and you just have to have a stable platform for your camera. Some work better than others! 1 – Use what’s available. Varying from
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Carrying a small compact camera in the hills is a doddle, whack it in a drybag and then your pocket. Sorted. Not so with a DSLR, especially once you couple it with a serious wide angle lens such as the Tokina 11-16mm f/2.8 DX Lens – or any serious telephoto lens. Offerings from the likes
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We’ve recently invested in one of these Opteka 6.5mm f3.5 fisheye lenses. It may not be Canon or a Nikon glass, but neither is it a £1000 out of our meagre budget. It’s apparently, identical to others sold by Samyang, Rokinon, Bower & Vivitar at various optical lengths (6.5-8mm). Ken Rockwell knows all about this stuff
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Some Snowdonia at night images taken over the winter.
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Decided to test out some macro photography this weekend – but these were before the macro tubes arrived! Taken using a Canon EOS 600d and the 40mm pancake prime lens. We’ll be posting a lot more gallery style posts in the future!
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We’ve all see those impressive shots of the Milky Way with a suitably spectacular foreground and probably wished you could take a similar photo. We decided to see how difficult it really was, and provide some tips that we found useful. I set off originally, with an ancient Fuji Finepix 9600 Bridge Camera that I’d
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Lightweight easy to use fully flexible tripod, perfect for any budding adventure seeking photographer. Read the full review on Tryf’s Blog.
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