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By cheating never works

J project is completed in the first version to three-quarters, or was it until I have today placed on computers and have begun to revise it. Now first 30,000 characters has less. Twenty pages - just gone, and I have done him some good. The novel.

I always notice exactly where is not my text is wrong, and I knew all the time, where it hooked. Only I thought I could muddle through me. By cheating but never works. In reading through I stay depends on the Mogelstellen. Here you have it but you just made, between the lines. And then I sit down turn again, and again, and if need be, once again.

It is almost never about language problems, but of ideas. How do I get my character into a certain position in order to underpin this or that action believable? My story will take at a certain point a new turn. The way this has happened, I am not yet convinced. I thought I could find something better.

helps in such situations, only one thing: the notebook. So I lay on my bed, take a black pen (really deep black, he must write, but not too fat - raise not so easy). And then I start to make some notes. Afterwards I hurt the back, because it is quite uncomfortable to lie on your stomach and write, but to me the best ideas come easily. Surefire Recipe works, always. When I put the pen, I have no idea what comes of it. But it comes.

I guess I take these things from the collective consciousness about the way one buys a package of sugar from the kitchen Cabinet, of which one no longer knows exactly where one has put it.

This time I needed an idea how I could motivate my character to change sides. And I got one. The additional problem with a minor character detached that I grind my teeth for weeks. Two in one, wonderful.

Now I wonder why this idea came to me is not already half a year ago. Then I would have today are not have to delete 30 000 characters and I saved a lot of work. I'm happy anyway. Because my story is more credible now, elegant and exciting. I hope.

Thank collective consciousness.

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Back to Topic: Voigtlander Nokton 25mm F / 0.95

The pocket dragon is still not gone, but can he only has to endure a few measurements (nodal point, moiré and stuff) about yourself, and then he's fired. In the meantime I will have
of Edlef finally Nokton. Behind the lens, I am - as probably 50% of the PEN community - some time ago and at the Photokina booth I'm creeping around for some time at the showcase at Olympus. Now it is this morning at the E-P2 and kuckt off on it as if it had always been.

sunrise the next village - minus 13 degrees. The lens is glove fit in any case. The focus is set beautifully, sometimes you go faster than the manual AF - especially in difficult situations focus, backlight and all.
It is the Nokton been written about quite a lot. Therefore, only the usual short impression: hard, precise, solid, quality, milled out of a purchase for grandchildren and great-grandchildren. A lens from a different time.
And now we are watching again Images:

No, no barbed wire -. even if auskuckt's so. Aperture 0.95, so the rest of the bush, only a few centimeters is behind it, blurring the focus. Sure enough the depth of field then not even the length of the ice crystals - but you can not have it all. As usual here: all OOC.
As beautiful as the aperture gimmick is that in weather like today range is 1 / 4000 of the E-P2 are far from sufficient. Pretty fast considering you look at the purchase of a density filter. A ND0, 9 for 3 stops would be a fine thing ... However, it also benefits from the aperture and close to something: the depth of field is not even enough for a horse from the eye: the eyelashes are sharp, the lower lid is almost not been seen.

is the cat, as far as I recall, made with Blender 2: the nose is almost outrageously sharp I suspect you might have to find some time to find a lens that has the quality of the Nokton. Yes, of course, the picture is ton, because the bush in the background is a bit stupid - but neither the cat nor the horse on whose back she is sitting, have a model training and hold still is not one of the things that the two have been training. .. After all, we are talking about a manual lens with a paper-thin depth of field and only 25mm focal length ... (And yes, the horizon tilts, but the cat has fallen to me now even better than bent forward .... and oh yes OOC.)

That is - guess who it is - a string of lights, by Christmas is left. ideal as a demo for the Nokton's bokeh. Virtually no sharp edges, and therefore in spite of the corners of the panel a very harmonious, smooth bokeh. The lens is not corrected, very, very fine.

And finally, a small gadget with a Primelstöckchen, an LED flashlight, and the art filters "Cross Development" ...

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pocket dragon XV - end and Conclusion

My week with the XZ-1 is coming to an end - time for some final comments. This morning I took the camera out with ', and realized why they do not is good: it is not glove suitability. It was freezing cold, the wind has swept away and the sun was first, and after few minutes, my frozen Fotografierhand so cold that I have not felt the pressure half-point to focus. The material has withstood the cold without complaint. Man has failed.

As you can see: photograph is - even with one hand - but cold isses. In the other direction now, the sun rises.

As you can see that the bag has a real dragon iris - not such a snap-on cover, how many compact. And this is just a picture from direct sunlight - a slight aussenrum yard and a bit LensFlare. DPReview as make of it a bit more, but I see no problem. Many "adult" Produce lenses with such a picture on the opposite face a fierce spirit sun - as you can see as somehow nothing. That's remarkable.

And now my conclusion. For this summary, I'll tell a little story and show two pictures that have emerged within the week.

This is the "blame Monastery" is Seligenporten, the estate which was built in the twenties of the last century by the Cistercian monks at the monastery to provide Seligenporten. The photo is from late last week, one of the first ones I made with the XZ-1.

This photo
- almost the same position - is from this morning. When the demolition began, urged the council to police protection to distribute any feared militant locals.
What does this have to do with the pocket dragons? It is the argument for a high quality always-this camera. You do not know whether what they photograph today, tomorrow, still exists. And it may be that each photo, make it, may be the last, which is made of this subject.

The trees in the background: ancient poplars, which are on the Schwarzach. You all should also be like after the demolition.

And so I end this test with two weeping eyes - it's still a little History disappeared - and I have to send the pocket dragons home ...

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pocket dragon XIII - Hunting season

One of the coolest photographers Anglicisms the "shooting" is. a "shoot" - I had one today. Valerie, my favorite gray card keeper, I have placed in almost any of my books. While the normal "shooting" really matters, that one has the longest running and most battery grip, this time I unpacked the bag kite, gray filter 'pure, f / 4 and the remote trigger on the hotshoe.

Why is it so packed? Because I have almost twenty minutes in the snow storm can be seen and it took some time until the studio was really warm .... ;-)

Since then it has become even warmer. I found it quite remarkable that I got out of focus with clip In the rear cap edge. Density filter is thanks. As usual, exposure control histogram, the images here as they come out of the camera. What really excited me is that the camera captures so parallel nor the RAW, so I can get out with a little tweaking RAW there's tremendous to structures' as the pocket dragons still has massive reserves in the shade. Was not planned in the fall, but it would have been possible.
also the focal length range is for a small studio actually sufficient. As long as you have no ego problem with it, connect with the little camera over a model, which is actually a good thing ...

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The pocket dragon - Praise from dpreview The pocket

all who think I should do here uncritical promotion of the XZ-1 should look at times the criticism of dpreview . Other hand, this is a bare slating. Phil Askey and his team have since written a hymn of praise, which triggers an immediate purchase reflex.
The difference is perhaps that dpreview compares the camera to direct competitors - Canon S95, G12, the Lumix LX5, the Samsung EX-1 and the Nikon P7000, get all the little trick. And I here of the PEN and the I-5 go out - cameras, which in its higher-- class, good front are included.
I'm doing here this to determine whether the camera for a DSLR photographer and PEN-user as a "small bag" is good - and it does. More than you this offers an image quality at which many a DSLR with kit lens has to stretch very much - and it is small, convenient and comfortable.

Back to camera: Today even tried the bracketing function - after the camera has three frames, each with 1.7 EV difference has to offer-which should actually suffice for most HDR applications. Nu is of course a problem with the HDR, if you just sit in a snow hole and sunshine only knows through hearsay.
So I have a bit of snapped out of the window - a couple of oranges to give the color spot and the weather outside the contrast. As usual, out-of-Cam, simply added together, only the RAW in Photomatix and mapped.

The camera takes three pictures with 1.7 EV distance, that's enough. The exposure I have to 2EV revised upwards because of course, the camera, the large bright area outside expect to gray at 18% and has therefore under-exposed. Coming from a E-System camera, you have to get used to a point, however: the bracketing snaps one with its own drive mode "BKT (bracketing). In the single image or series mode, there's no bracket. Has a clear advantage: one can hardly forget the bracketing auszuzuschalten again, so that you messed up the images by mistake.

A little info: I have also measured the dynamic range of the pocket dragon and was surprised: the Winz sensor provides smooth 9EV dynamics - for a compact is phenomenal, and explains why the camera and the high ISOs mastered so well.

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Dragon XI - shoot cars ...

What do you do if you have a small sensor and a good lens? Clear: macros and close-ups. So once again resorted to the flash system and played a bit:

The super macro mode of the XZ-1 is indeed only in wide-angle position of the lens - that Sun Again: note histogram and adjust so long until the exposure suits. The picture is made with f / 8 and with ND-density filter. The honeycomb is to the right spot only a few inches away, on the left side of a Styrofoam plate as a brightener, from underneath a blue-colored softbox.

And the whole thing is of course with Tele - then a close-up.

It works well behaved - again my carpet slip grating, the blue reflections in the bumper and the tires are by lighting from below. Here aperture 6.3. Does not get closer, the model car is already here at the closest focusing distance.
Both pictures are by the way 100% OOC no trimming, no editing.
It's fun ...

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The Snow Dragon - Part X

And it is over with the beautiful weather - snow, cold. Ideal weather for the μTough8010. But back to the Olympus, so the pocket dragon slips into a shirt pocket. And since the camera is in her element: a bad light, the nose is freezing, the glasses fog up and the dog was up to his collar in the next pile of snow. So a bit rumknipsen '.

Unspekatakulär. Why am you still Show that the details in the classes are amazing. And in that light. I have never seen in a compact. Then once briefly turned on the super macro mode - now I know where is the button that goes Ruckzuck - and a few snow crystals photographed:

born I's to - is a 50% cut.
And, because it's snowing so beautiful, nor the Catholic Church against bare branches with plenty of ...

Yes, I read it already in the DSLR forum: The blog is nice, but the photos are all so tiny. OK. For those who want pixelpeepen partout: Here are a JPG and a few ORFs. Have fun. Equal to the Warning: Lightroom can not RAWs, IrfanView, Picasa and RawTherapee - or the new Oly viewer are the programs of choice.

Figure 1 The RAW of the Interior of the monastery church
Figure 2 tree in front of snowy landscape
Figure 3 The purple water glass with a mirror ball. (RAW)
Figure 4 The road in snow (RAW)
Figure 5 The church in snow. (RAW)

Especially at the church I'm surprised by both the individual snowflakes, as well as the structure of the sandstones. Are doing well, despite the diffuse light and open cover. Real goodie is the white Snow piles on the branches to the left of white snow sky. From the motive, not a Wow picture, but the camera can do what - because you can not complain.

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The pocket dragon IX - The Fast One

The fact that the AF is fast, I had already written. Now I've tested the sequence mode. Since there's even the continuous shooting at full resolution: Since the camera creates three images per second - and after ten images is the internal memory is full, then there is a dramatic pause inserted. During the test I had turned the sensitivity to ISO 6400 to keep the shutter speed to a minimum. Hish Speed the ISO to Auto ISO and on but I expected now to be thwarted with ISO 200, but look, the camera is switched on only ISO 3200 back Decreased resolution to 2560x1920, but the extremely fast shutter rattled with 8 frames per second.
And then there's HighSpeed2 - 640x480 resolution, 15 frames per second with ISO 1000 At the speed of the sensor will obviously in the video mode and silently - no more rattling closure. However, no more live images - it displays the first image of the series. The rest goes blind.

After the speed tests in which a stopwatch will be photographed, now are not sooo exciting, even a picture with freeze-factor: effect filter pinhole camera ... It's just freezing cold outside.
morning we will drive with high-ISO tests and dissolution tests. So again visually rather dull affairs.

The promised interim conclusion:

can replace the camera for a pen? No. Even if the lens is the pocket dragons top notch and the sensor delivers clean images amazing-the PEN is almost everywhere one-upmanship.
Can replace a DSLR camera? No.
Why then the camera? The dragon is a pocket camera, which one brings with him, if not photograph is about. The finds in the pocket and in the handbag, one is everywhere so well dressed and actually comes under almost all conditions to images. With a little practice you can make it even sports photos, lousy Light does not frighten them and you can take pictures in churches, without any of the pastor looks wrong - because the flash is in the camera and the shutter is very quiet. And who annoys the other compact photography with an outstretched arm, which pushes the first-class PEN viewfinder on top - by the way, sticking them on the XZ-1, as the Pens - and is happy. Especially for older people, the PEN-seeker is a blessing.
Can I sell photos from the XZ-1? Yes. Not under any circumstances and by all motives, but under normal conditions, the images of the XZ-1 compete with images from DSLRs. Sure. For an E-5 Top-Pro-Zuikos sees the bag of old dragon - but what camera can compete already.
The XZ-1 is fun, you can be creative with it, except if it is, one is prepared for almost any subject that comes across - and if you then must work seriously, then you access anyway to E-5. But for Street or simply as always, this is pocket dragon - and because of its extremely speedy auto-focus - a very fine camera.

Ah yes, what I have forgotten: the camera does not have a closure - the closure chatter is generated digitally and can be turned off along with all other noise in the settings.

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pocket dragon VIII - gimmicks in the studio

A compact camera with hot shoe? What could be better than a wireless shutter release times and then dranzuklatschen with the flash set 'play around. In the first experiment that came out since with ':

Well, "the first attempt" is a bit exaggerated. The first attempts had installed a certain frustration factor: namely, the pictures looked wonderful on the screen - and then the computer they were one and all under-exposed. Also in the XZ-1 rule: Never trust the display, always check the histogram. Sure - the exposure is completely manual and the focus is adjusted manually, which is on the modeling of my crappy flash system quite a hassle. In the studio the way, the built-in neutral density filter is quite nice - the camera does indeed only up to f / 8, and there's sometimes a bit tight, if the flash can not burn down according to rules'.
As for me, especially when manual focus from the stand, something has annoyed: after three minutes, the camera goes into standby, drives a trunk, making it the picture and focus Perdue. So, work faster ...
Well, I've made a little picture:

What It's very nice full-resolution, extremely high resolution of the light reflections in the lower part of the glass. Since the lens may have advantages. Really: the lens is top notch. The moire is at the top of the glass nothing to do with the sensor or lens, but with the carpet slip grating. (Yes. This is not perforated, but as a rubber mesh for under the carpet ... ;-) And the light is purple, is simply because I had covered half the softbox with red and blue foil. Oh yes, I know that the steel ball has dimples - which I've used for the various strobe trials, and she has taken but because something ....)
This afternoon I try to still photography in the studio with people outside, yes it is again cast in gray. And then there's ever an interim conclusion.