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Attending Wilco's Solid Sound Festival in North Adams MA. Billy Bragg opened proceedings and it started raining about three songs in but nobody cared much. Gang of Four soon and then Wilco with Billy Bragg who will perform music from their 1998 Mermaid Avenue album of Woody Guthrie songs live for the first time ever.

It being Father's Day a nearby hotel celebrated with $38 burgers, whiskey tastings, and a local Jaquar club showing off a few cars (mostly non-Jaquars). Thus more testing to try to figure out this confusing Light Lens Lab 50mm f/1.5 Z21 (Angenieux S21 clone). Paired with the SL (typ 601). Makes one more appreciative of modern flat field lenses. Still old lenses for old cars.

I snapped this photo without tripod. It has a fairly high ISO, but nothing the R6II can´t handle.

Finally have local AI downloaded and running. So ... Yeah, I can do that, now. EDIT: And I got GLM-5.2 running! Abysmal speeds but when I need it, I got it!

Rick's wide angle images made me want to look at some older images. Here's one with a 21mm Zeiss distagon from 2015.

We've thought about that over this weekend but one critical difference is that all of the stages here point away from the sunset so we get to look into the sun rather than the performers. The other is that he is king here so it should be harder to get grumpy.

Butthole Surfers - Psychic.... Powerless.... Another Man's Sac Mad genius album! Lady Sniff makes me chuckle hard every time.....

Beautiful landscape! Also I'm sure a nice Distagon. I can't choose between, but did you debate about shooting at f/800? So Light Lens Lab is probably most known for recreating old Leica lenses, but they've produced three non-Leicas also - The Cooke Speed-Panchro II (below), the Angenieux S21 (previous page), and the Dallmeyer Super-Six (I should resist, right? Being a completest is expensive.). Sometimes this is in a new mount, occasionally a new focal length. Anyway, they're often compared and I had Monday off, so swung by The Cantor Art and Anderson Collection Standford spaces with a dusted off SPII with the SL (typ 601). Isn't much of a comparison with the Jaq show, as their subjects are so different, but fun to shoot close together. Mostly at f/2.8. You may recognize the Richard Serra sculpture Sequence, shown here many times, along with a Nick Cave Soundsuite and Deborah Oropallo Patrol.

Or, from the source

Also, for me, everyone appears as Brent...

Be more like Robert -- 🤘

Is Marinwood Ready for The Hot Takes? Well, the younglings enjoyed the mosh pit!

Always great in used lens ads when they include a photo of the "flawless optics".

R6mII + RF800 ISO800, 1/800, F11

A millennial friend of mine is touring .ca and got multiple free upgrades with his rental. I said "I got a Benz too and it's black like that." He gave me a blank look. SMH kids these days.

Anthony Garcia - C’était L’été

Finally made it to the top of the local climb without blowing up. Key change was grinding out the steepest pitches sub 60 rpm to keep my heart rate out of the red. I was worried I’d be going too slow to stay upright, but it was fine. Also helps that I’m also slowly but surely getting more fit. I feel a lot better about the climbing on the Marin metric century now that I’ve finally been able to get up and over this thing. Nate is right, 32mm is the sweet spot. Put some on and they felt amazing.

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DaHPQIBs10m/?igsh=YzNmYml2NGttMW9i I know the forum software does not embed Instagram links, but I came across this in my feed this morning. Bob James playing, Angela, with Wilco. {aka Taxi theme}

Far better than I've ever managed, so I approve!

I’m still testing the R6 Mark II against the 90D by taking photos of the moon. Last night I used 90D + 2x extender + 100-400 f4.5/5.6L. ISO 800, 1/800, F11 What do you think?

Anika Nilles: Getting To Know Rush's New Drummer

GabeCube is live. Starting price is $1050.

Happy Father's Day Belvedere! With Surreal Neil And Super Diamond

My avatar is gone. When I try to load a new profile picture, it fails because it's over the (new) 104.2 kB maximum. Since all my avatar pics have been from my phone cameras, they have all been in the 1mB to 2+mB. I suspect that the members, who lost their avatars, had avatar photos over the 104.2kB max. I'll eventually get around to making and uploading a thumbnail version.

Luaka Bop: Zero Accidents On the Job (10th Anniversary release - now an additional 26 years old... we're getting up there). The CD is labeled "advanced" and "promotional only" so tracks not perfectly aligned to what I'm seeing elsewhere. Anyway, a blast to revisit and hear remixes & inspired by for those who took the journey with David Bryne through South (and eventually Central) America. Ex. Everybody needs a bosom for a pillow

In the home page the icons of the forums won’t show and they display in a very horrible mosaic way. I can’t find the “mark forum (or sub-forum) as read” button Found it, it’s in the top of the page under the user’s name-avatar menu. No birthdays Besides that it seems faster loading.

Quite funny!

Don’t let the title get in the way. At least halfway through its limited run (all watched yesterday) DTF St. Louis (HBO Max) is really rewarding. EDIT: Quality continues through all seven episodes. Kind of wonderful.

Polar Opposites(?)

Giving the soundtrack a try. Mother Mary’s “Greatest Hits” Ex.

Jane Siberry, No Borders Here

^^ all the flaccid and stiff nose action that you would want. {I came to post the same things} 🤘

Knucks, That link returns, Page not found Double check your search, or try looking for another creator or topic.

ElevenHifi is a Rega dealer...

Margined leatherwing beetle from this morning.

Finished the right channel today. Feedback as suggested by Justin. Bias servo as suggested by Kevin. Red smoke – Super Symmetrical mode. Green smoke – Zero Feedback mode.

for scale None of those chairs are in the sweet spot. But I did find a room for Ric.

A slightly different kind of speaker porn. In the early 90s I was prone to spacing out and doodling in class, in stead of doing what I was supposed to be doing. This pattern explains a lot about ...everything that has followed since. A month or so ago I was going through some of the myriad of paperwork that made it with me from the mainland. In it I found a really old school notebook. Most of it was fantastically uninteresting (I have not cared about the Sumerians for 35 years and counting) but I did find one page that had some amusing doodles on it: We've got a couple cars, an attempt at a Roland TB-303 Bassline, what might be a Marshall half stack and ...two attempts at one very iconic speaker design. That's a Legacy Audio Whisper. I was one of the cool kids, I tell you.

Wake up babe, the GabeCube just dropped.

I have to admit, when I first saw this, I was like cool. 'Voice of the Theater" ALs. I didn't catch that they were yours. Well done!!

I got SO lucky with a local listing. Altec A7-500, and I added the supertweeter.

I should do a second post on 2009 at some point. With that said, Couple Finds Trove of 2,000 Cameras and Lenses in Storage Unit. Right here in MA.

Yo La Tengo -- Electr-o-Pura

Coltrane Nice box with 5 cds.