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With some of Europe's finest nature photographers in our community, we're proud to share some of their tips, tricks and trip reports. You'll find inspiring stories and galleries, news about our gear and reviews by photographers who tested it during their travels. Do you have a story that you'd like to share with our readers? Feel free to drop us a line, we're happy to consider publication.

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Ponting Bag tested by Elephant seals

Ponting Bag; tested and approved

Feb 2, 2015 | Comments Off on Ponting Bag; tested and approved

New in the line-up of MrJan Gear packs is the Ponting Bag. The Ponting bag is a very sturdy and fully waterproof bag for expedition landings and other wet and harsh conditions where you will otherwise have trouble to keep your gear dry. The bag is designed as an envelope pack for the Bertik II, Boris or Spitsbergen photo […]

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Floating, testing, shooting and showing

Oct 6, 2014 | Comments Off on Floating, testing, shooting and showing

A floating hide is invented in a blink of an eye. But building it to suit all your needs is a bit of a long story. While we have lots of ideas (and you put even more in our mailbox), we did lots of trial and error, lots of rethinking, lots of discussion and drank lots […]

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Last minute to Japan

Apr 18, 2014 | Comments Off on Last minute to Japan

Dutch wildlife photographer Jan Baks met the MrJanGear Bertik at the NVN-natuurfoto festival in Arnhem. It was a kind of ‘love at first sight’ and he would love to take his gear on a trip to Japan packed in a Bertik. But we had no Bertik with us, except the ‘showcase’ from Olof and just […]

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Floating along

Mar 29, 2014 | Comments Off on Floating along

Last week we received some very nice shots from David Pattyn. We met him some weeks ago and he was very eager to try out our very first prototype of the smaller floating hide. And so we borrowed him our pre-pre-pre-production version for testing. In normal use you will have a hiding tent of some […]

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Going to Oslo

Mar 17, 2014 | Comments Off on Going to Oslo

MrJanGear is attending the great Norwegian Naturfotofestival in Oslo 21-23 of March. That will be 3 amazing days! Since talking to customers is one of the great ways to find out where the needs are and what we can do to answer to those needs, visiting this kind of meetups is very inspiring and rewarding. So, […]

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