Humungeous Rock Concert Gig

Well we have -another- outdoor rock concert coming up, which may be even bigger and better than the last one. The band will be playing at the VIOLET FESTIVAL, which I'm told is very crowded and fun event. And it has a somewhat larger stage, and a nice big beer garden right next to the stage 🙂 STARSHIP will be the main act at the Festival this year.

For this one, I will take two ELM's, 40mm, 60mm, 80mm, 150, and 350. That should do it, everything except one body and the 350 in my old brown F2 Domke. Hopefully we can park close to the stage.
 
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Going to use Fuji NPZ, 220 Ilford HP5+ (still have a bit left!) 220 Tri-X Pro (200 EI), and maybe some Ilford Delta 3200 (at EI 1000, if I need the speed) in two Hasselblad EL/m bodies. Lenses will be 40,60,80,150, & 350. Everything except the second body/350 fits into an old Brown F2 Domke press bag.
I'll use an old Meter Prism on each Blad body, those seem to be working very well, and I want to use them more.

We need to be at the concert site at 4:00 next Thursday. Concert runs from 5:30 to 6:45. If it's real stormy and crappy dark, I'll take the Leicas again.

Will be running all this film soon, hopefully this weekend, if I have time. Still need to develop the previous stuff from the 4th of July concerts.
 
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It has rained and rained and rained here

It has rained and rained and rained here

And it's still raining today. Last Thursday worked out well, their show got pushed-back to 7:30 and it was stormy dark. So I took the M2 with 50mm F1.2 Canon, 85mm F1.5 Canon, 19mm F3.5 Canon, and lots of Eastman XX film. Worked just great! I love the 19mm Canon, I put my elbows on the front of the stage, and shoot almost straight-up with M2/Rapidwinder. Looks very cool through the finder. Left with ringing ears. 😎😎😎

Today's show is at !:00PM, and it's -supposed- to clear off. Taking the 'blads this time, two EL/Ms, meter prisms, 40,60,80,150 & 350. All in a brown F2 Domke press bag. And lots of high-speed film (EI800 Fuji NPZ, TXP220, Ilford HP5+220, and Delta 3200, which I rate at 1000EI).

We'll see.
 
It's still raining here..........

It's still raining here..........

Went and slogged around the park, in the rain, with my 'blads. Nobody playing on account of the rain. Then the band appearing with us, has a big meltdown, and a couple of the members storm out and take off. That band is now history. So the idea then becomes to put the two bands together, for about a half-hour gig. STARSHIP has to do their sound quickcheck, then our turn comes. I decided to take off, my wife wants to see STARSHIP. Beer garden is closed up 🙁

The 180mm F2.8 CZJ Sonnar probably produces more light bouncing around inside of it, by the way it is one of my favorite MF EX66/Kiev 6x6 lenses. I do have a Minolta SRT/P6 adapter, I really should test it soon, on a Minolta SRT. I've heard Kiev people tell me it's not as sharp, as say, a 180mm F2.8 on a Leicaflex. Of course, for a rock concert, I should take my Minolta SR-M, so I can be motorized, kind of like how Jim Marshall would use his motorized Nikon F's. Same basic idea. Yes this is a fun ongoing project, which has definate ups-and-downs.
 
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The Violet Festival is history, and was basically rained out. Last night the band gave another outdoor concert, it was beautiful, clear and the sun was shining. I used two Hasselblad EL/Ms, with meter prisms. One was loaded with Fuji NPH, and TXP220, and the 40mm F4 Distagon. The other EL/M was loaded with Delta 3200 (rated at 1000) and the 350mm F5.6 Tele-Tessar.

Concert photography -is- fun. Next weekend we will go see 😱😱ALICE COOPER😱😱 in concert at the Ohio State Fair. I think I will take my M-5, with Canon 85mm F1.5 . We will be in the fourth row back (not close enough to the stage to get splattered with anything!😱😱)
Should be fun, my sister is going also, she used to be ALICE's #1 fan.
 
From "BATTLE OF THE BANDS"

From "BATTLE OF THE BANDS"

I love Instant MF Photography. I fired off the end of a roll with Delta 3200 and the 350mm f5.6 Tele-Tessar lens on a 'blad, then put on the NPC Instant Back, for a quick test (confirmation) shot. Showed the band right after the show, they were -amazed-, "How did you get that print so quickly???".

TXP220 has been processed in TD-201, those negs look just great, loads of detail. 120 Delta 3200 is loaded, ready to soup in Ilford DDX. Color NPZ 220 has a few frames yet to go, it will go to my Pro Lab. Will try to scan and get some stuff up here soon. Also five rolls of Eastman XX to soup, still deciding what soup to try next, with those important shots.

Another concert this evening @ 7:00PM, at the Tomatoe Festival. Haven't decide yet, whether it's Leica, or 'blad, tonight.

Here's Fujiroid B&W 400 Instant Film, from Dirk (formerly Megaperls) available only in Japan. Here is my son, jamming away. He has the stance -down-:
 

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Nokton48,
Yeaaaaah!!!!!! Love it. It's like I can hear the music in my head looking at that shot. and it's nice to see that not all of the current generation look like skinheads.

Raid,
I suspect that the older C.Z. Jena Sonnars were single coated. I think that I'd had mine since 1971, maybe earlier. I know that the 180/2.8 Tele-Elmarit that I bought about ten years later had more contrast but it wouldn't fit on the Pentacon-Six.

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Yeaaaaah!!!!!! Love it. It's like I can hear the music in my head looking at that shot. and it's nice to see that not all of the current generation look like skinheads.

Thank you Al, those comments really mean alot to me. Brought a smile to my face.


The Tomatoe Festival is now history, our band opened for the nationally known headliningband, SAVING JANE. Our band played hard, the crowd was huge, and everybody had a great time.

Took the 'blad again, used FujiNPH and TXP220, and Delta 3200 (I rate at 1000). Love that 350mm f5.6 Zeiss Sonnar, and the 40mm f4 Distagon (my two extremes in 'blad lenses). The available light wasn't great, but enough light was around to be a success, photographically speaking. After the show, we met SAVING JANE backstage, Papparazzi, Parents, and crazed fans with Digitals were back-to-back. I whipped out my M5 with my new 35mm Summaron, could muster 1/15 with Eastman XX, so that should be OK. Probably got some digiflashes in some of those exposures, heh heh. Running the Delta 3200 later today, in Ilford DDX.

Here -he- is again, captured on 400 Fujiroid, with my fave 350mm 'blad Tele-Tessar:
 

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The local rock stations in the Miami area, as well as the Miami Herald, TV, etc. have been making hay about the 40th anniversary of WOODSTOCK. I didn't make that one. However several weeks before that some local promoters hastily put together the Miami Pop Festival at Gulfstream Race Track just north of here and across the county line in Hallandale, FL. It was a huge success and the promoters decided to repeat the success on a farm in Woodstock.

Woodstock quickly grew beyond anyone's expectations.

My big regret is that I didn't have the good sense to shoot the Miami Pop Festival, the Orlando Rock Festival, and the Rock Pow Wow at the Hollywood, FL Seminole reservation in black and white, ONLY black and white. What few Ektachromes I can find are horribly faded and discolored, and feeding a dozen varieties of fungi, plus my slide files were always in disarray. But there was another thing going in the sixties besides "Peace, Love, & Happiness" that always seems to get swept under the proverbial rug.

My son just turned 33. When he was 15 he convinced me to get him a Yamaha acoustic guitar, soon followed by an electric. One day he was listening to some of my collection (and I still have it!) of sixties rock records and he said "Dad, I just realized why there was such a blossoming of creativity in rock music in the late sixties! They were all either stoned or tripping!" As the Grateful Dead so aptly put it "Ridin' that train high on cocaine".

And I don't want any of you young bucks jumping in with a "Yeah, but digital can be backed up, copied, stored on multiple hard drives...etc." Show us the images in forty years. They're likely as not going to be less well preserved than the 16 year old groupies who are now quickly aproaching their sixtieth birthdays, and I've got the pictures to prove it...LOL
 
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Another Rock Concert, Today at 2:00PM

Another Rock Concert, Today at 2:00PM

"Key Day" today (pure bright sun), so I am going -light- to this one. One Leica M2 with TomA Rapidwinder, 35mm F2.8 Summaron, 50mm F2.8 Elmar, 90mm F4 Collapsible Elmar. Four extra rolls of Eastman XX in the Swedish Military Medical Bag. Incognito 😎

Oh, and a Minolta Autometer II, in case we go inside.
 
Another rock concert today, at one of the local Arts Festivals. Was going to take the 500EL/M with the 250 F5.6, and Delta 1000, but it's not bright enough today, for that. Just hope it dosen't rain....

So I will take the M5 with 85mm F1.5 Canon, the 50mm F1.2 Canon, the 35mm F2 Canon, and the 19mm F3.5 Canon. My favorite Eastman XX film @ EI 250, and a Minolta Autometer II. Oh, and my new M4-2, with the TomA Rapidwinder, the 19mm will stay parked on that.
Most of the film from this project has been processed (and looks great) I will try to attach some scans as soon as I can get them. I'm glad I did some of the work in medium format, it really does look different from the Leica stuff.

Rock On!!
 
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