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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:

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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.