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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 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.

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

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!

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

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

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

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

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.

I'm already on that

ElevenHifi is a Rega dealer...

For the same money, you can buy a Steinway grand piano that will play itself.

Going back a bit.

Audio Technica makes a $108,000 headphone amp. The selector switches are unlabeled, so there's a handy wedge-shaped guide that sits below the amp. That is certainly a design decision.

Kicked off the summer this weekend with the San Mateo County Fair. A few not terribly inspiring shots below. Leica SL2-S during the day with the softer Light Lens Lab 35mm f/1.4 Double Aspherical "11873" and during night the more modern Voigtlander 28mm f/2 Ultron.

It flew off the WWE headquarters. That is entirely too on the nose.

Ouch.. -- from a published article (august 1981)

It's the revenge tour, they got tired of people eating the dogs and cats!

Oh, man....I just had a triggered flashback (no drugs involved!). My grandparents used to take us 3 boys out to an IHOP near their condo many (many) years ago. Tuesday nights were 2-for-1 pancake nights; always super-busy with lots of "opinionated" older people. I would often order a huge apple pancake, quite good and could never finish it so would have leftovers. One time, the waitress delivers my dish, and my grandmother practically jumps down her throat, saying "...it looks sick, bring a new one...." (it DID look like one of those above). I saw the harried and worried look on the waitress' face and told her to leave it, I'm sure it will be fine. Relieved, she did, and indeed it was fine. Later I got a nice smile and a mouthed "thank you" from her. Since then, I will always give the "first" pancake the benefit of the doubt 🙂 Funny the stuff one remembers.....I must have all of like 10 or 11 years old.

"I think I found a market for these old SCSI cables."

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

Peter Doig built a sound system using parts from old cinemas and then Brian Eno did a DJ set on it.

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.

Our daughter, having lived in Australia for the last 10 years, developed the characteristic rising inflexion at the end of each sentence (listen to the Wombat walkers). She then decided that it sounded just wrong as an ex-pat Brit, and eradicated it totally from the way she speaks.

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.

Those are quite pathetic little amp carts

Looks like they need Milo & Otis to make new amp stands, but the amps are sure shinny.

Here, or speaker porn? The ostentatious aesthetic of the amps wins out, I think.

Japanese market Panasonic SA-PM50MD CD/Minidisc system. Serious cassette futurism vibes.