image optimisation machine

yesterday samsung announced a couple of new products, including the galaxy nx camera and the galaxy s4 zoom mobile phone. it's good to see completely new, innovative products on the market, although these two aren't very appealing to me.

however my interests were concentrated on the samsung ativ book 9 plus, which will be the successor of the series 9 ultrabook class. it's the device i've waited for a very long time:

screen - 13.3 inches, 3200*1800 pixels, 275 ppi

performance - core i5 or i7, 4 or 8gb ram, newest intel haswell technology

mobility - battery life up to 12 hours, 3.1 pounds, 12*8.7*0.53 inches

after more than six years of daily work my good old laptop is going to step back into the second row real soon now.  and in the course of this i'll switch over to lightroom version 5, too.

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purple fox gloves

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purple fox gloves - sony nex 7 | sel35 f1.8 | f1.8 | ISO100 | 1/125

unfortunately i didn't find the time to care about photography today, so that i have to get along with a picture of the well-dressed tina from a last weekend's birthday party.

actually much more than better than nothing. 

lecture

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lecture - sony nex 7 | sel50 f1.8 | f1.8 | ISO100 | 1/640

sometimes it's certainly more instructive to observe the happenings than to participate.

but who is holding the lesson to whom here? maybe our sweet, only 5 years old neighbour girl, who is just showing tina her new book about astronomy and who already knows all the planets in our sun system, teaches the currently ill tina? or perhaps kingston, the dog, is twisting tina around his little paw, just with his melting gaze. and it's even possible, that the girls are keeping kingston down with their charm and wit.

it was indeed a very brief moment, but fortunately it's captured on disc from now on. 

​journey there and through

the heat wave has already caught us up, while the main part of the midsummer tourists is just arriving. the last places on the camping grounds are occupied right now. these days i'm happy to live here.

healthy suspicion

there, said it: the rx1r won't be a real variant of the meanwhile well-known reference level camera of the compact sector, but the same package just without the aa-filter. well, sony might have managed to improve iq again a tiny little bit, but what does that do for me, if i'm not able to take a picture like the one above, because the necessarily needed tilting screen is missing?

accordingly, for now i remain with my onion ring bokeh, which is not so bad after all. and my kitty nila is glad to have us back any way or the other.

crack

i love this unreal sunset, it looks like an abstract painting. jpg straight out of camera, shot in miniature mode.

breaking the monotony

straight out of camera, high contrast black and white mode. 

the show goes on

great to see that the show and therewith also the daily life go on even in the regions, that were seriously hit by the flood. especially because of that i'm looking forward to the park- and castle festival, which will start tomorrow here in greiz, tina's hometown. 

darkroom safelight

abstract high contrast b&w graphics of a ... ermm, that's of no importance; besides a bit of cropping directly out of cam.

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divided shadow

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divided shadow - sony nex 7 | sel35 f1.8 | f2.8 | ISO100 | 1/1600

back from my tent, immediately back to digital stuff - i'm going to tell you more about #rar2013, when i got my films back from processing.

after more than one weekend of abstinence from my nex 7 i'm fired up for photographing with the semi-professional light-weight package again.

especially when it comes to metering modes, i'm so, so happy to have modern equipment on my hand once more.