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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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  • Floating, testing, shooting and showing

    Oct 6, 2014

    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

    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

    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

    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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  • The new Bertik II

    Mar 16, 2014

    Since it’s mainly a improved version of the Bertik we didn’t want to rename it. We were suggested to call it a MKII but since we won’t add to the Nikon / Canon debate we just added a II One of the main issues with our pack was the lack of a laptop compartiment. We […]

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