Calling all Panoramic photographers… Get your entries in the EPSON PANO AWARDS.

“Long Reef beach”   ( David Jenkins Nomad Photography) 14th place Nature & Landscape 2011 Pano Awards It’s on again the world’s greatest Panoramic Photographic competition! Last year several of our customers won places, cash and kudos! Don’t be shy… sort through those files and enter you best shot. Entries close 20th of April.

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Australian Landscape Photographers clean up in Pano Awards.

Our local landscape photographers have taken 14 places in the top 50 at the 2011 Epson Pano Awards. Several of them are Maninlinephoto customers. 14th Place goes to David Jenkins 28th Place goes to Mark Gray 42 Place goes to Simon Beedle. Congratulations to all of you! If you didn’t enter this year get ready [...]

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The Panosaurus Panoramic tripod head… is coming to Australia!

Here at Mainlinephoto we are always on the search for new and unique products to add to our quality range of accessories. After the incredible success of our last product the Sun Sniper sling camera strap we thought nothing could surpass it in demand. Well… We now present the Panosaurus Tripod head. No need for [...]

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Customer Profile Landsacpe photographer Archie Muntz

Good old Archie Muntz has been a Mainline customer for many years now.  His day job is to die for he is the Manager and overseer of the reclamation of  Curtis Island in the Great Barrier Reef National Park Queensland. What does that all mean? It means he is the guy responsible for seeing the [...]

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Get a wider view! How to create great Digital Panoramas. Tools for the job and know how.

If you own a decent digital camera you can create some darn good Panoramas. Why is panoramic photography so popular what is it that makes it look so good? simply because it re creates what we see… when we take in that breathlessly beautiful vista we are seeing in as they say panoramas. Interested in [...]

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Fotoman Cameras ceases production.

The flagship of the range the 617. Our best seller. Sad news but true. Paul Droluk and partners have decided to shut down production of all Fotoman products effective immediately. A press release issued to all dealers explains that financially it is no longer viable to manufacture small volumes of Fotoman cameras in China. The [...]

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Customer Profile: Landscape Photographer Dan O’Dwyer

Mainline customer and Fotoman owner Dan O’Dwyer has a big advantage over alot of other photographers his day job as a Helicopter pilot takes him to plenty of amazing photogenic locations. Dan takes a break His works are on display in galleries in Alice Springs and of course due to his work he has been [...]

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Zac’s Gallery showing LANDSCAPES OF CROATIA

Zac Dejanovic has recently returned from a dangerous photographic adventure across Bosnia,Croatia and Herzegovina. This gallery exhibition is a tribute to his homeland and people. Zac has a great website with a full range of all his 617 panoramic art works all shot with his trusted Fotoman.

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The Mainline Customer Web Photographic Gallery!

Finally I have got around to organising something I have been wanting to do for a while and that is start an online gallery of our customers photographs. We are using Flickr as the web base application for the Gallery and each photographer accepted into the gallery will get their own sets within the matching [...]

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Customer Profile Mark Zissis landscape photographer

Mark Zissis has gone full circle in his photography coming from a digital studio background to become one of the countries up and coming Panoramic landscape photographers. Mark uses a Linhof 617 technorama with several lenses to capture his images often spending days in the one spot to get the right shot. Take a look [...]

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Stranded ship Nobbys Head

Mainline customer Zac Dejanovic has captured the scene off the coast at Nobbys Head where a tanker ship has been stranded on the beach due to the recent huge storms. Shot with his Fotoman 617. Must have been a Dark and stormy night

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Customer Profile Geoff White

“The Hazards” Freycinet Tasmania Geoff White is a Sydney based landscape photographer who travels widely with his trusty Linhof 617. When not taking photos he moonlights as an IT geeky type ( though he certainly doesn’t look it, must be all the sun and fresh air …. balances things out is my guess). I have [...]

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Customer profiles Craig Fallshaw

Craig has only recently acquired his Fotoman 617 but has already started turning out some great work plus he now has an excuse to turn those business trips into photographic holidays. Craig runs a successful vitamin manufacturing business but his real passion is Outdoor Photography. He is also one of the many photographers that started [...]

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400mm lens for Fotoman 617 a first whoo hoo!

A 400mm lens on 617 it certainly is the “big kahuna” This is the longest focal length lens I have seen on 617 camera. What can we say but it looks pretty damm cool. This is really what makes the Fotoman system so popular is the ability to be able to fit so many different [...]

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Seeing landscape… Seems Hendro has the third eye for a good shot!

Hendro Soetrisno is a landscape photographer who has a great ability to see past the subject matter in his images and find that something special or mystical that others would miss. His photos have won him several awards as he also refuses to compromise on quailty in all stages of his work. Hendro is one [...]

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New Retro rangefinder from Fotoman…. very cool

These guys seem unstoppable! Check this cool new accessory out it’s a Rangefinder unit based on the old Voigtlander one. Every 612 and 617 camera owner is going need one of these ( great for golf too). According to data just in it is extremely accurate ( I don’t know the rangefinder base yet) and [...]

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