30 December, 2013

O.E. Gallagher, 22 Dec 2013 - bye bye bird - ライカElmar-Rを使ってみた


Rory Gallagher tribute band O.E. Gallagher (Taste cover) live at Crawdaddy Club, Shinjuku Tokyo, 22 December 2013.

Full of blues feeling inspired by Taste in concert 1968.

- Takayuki O.E. (guitars/harmonica/vocals)
- Hironori Kagawa (bass)
- Shuichi Ueda (drums)

Using Carl Zeiss/Contax Planar 85mm/F1.2 single focal lens, Leica Elmar-R 180mm/F4 single focal lens with Sony Alpha ILCE-7 35mm full-frame camera.
All photo copyright © 2013 Megumi Manzaki.

ライカには珍しい一眼レフ用望遠レンズ、エルマーRを使ってみた。ライブハウスで使うにはF4と暗いのが難点だが、ISO3200まで上げれば十分使える。ピントの合わせ易さも解像力も良好だ。
この店はステージ照明が正面から当たりすぎるせいなのか、写真に立体感を出すことがドイツ製プラナーでも難しく、なんとなく苦手だったのだが、このエルマーは、光と影のコントラストが出にくいのは照明の条件で同じでも、階調には「ヨーロピアン」な深みが出て、アップショットで良く表情を捉えてくれる。
ウッ、私、コンタックスからライカのレンズに心移りし始めている?


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173 photos taken by Megumi in this session available.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/megumi_manzaki/sets/72157638947076854/

Set list:
- Blister On The Moon
- Same Old Story
- I'll Remember
- I'm Moving On - Pontiac Blues
- Baby Please Don't Go - Bye Bye Bird
- What's Going On
- Sugar Mama
- Morning Sun
- Gamblin' Blues
- Sinner Boy
- Feel So Good
- Catfish

Encore with Naomi Watanabe on keyboard:
- Tattoo'd Lady
- Moonchild

YouTube movies available.
- O.E. Gallagher play Taste - part 1 - "Baby Please Don't Go"
     http://youtu.be/jFLNi4XkfPo (running time 33:50)
- O.E. Gallagher play Taste - part 2 - "Gamblin' Blues"
     http://youtu.be/d6g3H3luNaw (running time 52:45)