Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/03/13
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Jeremy, Concert security must be different in the UK---there's no way I could smuggle a 180 into a concert here. A few years ago, some Husky Hamburger (local uni football player) working the door at an Iggy Pop concert frisked me and seized my beloved Swiss Army knife. A week earlier, a Secret Service agent frisking me at the entrance to a Hillary gig had found it, and waved me through! Concur with getting a seat a few rows back. With some bands, you can get crushed by the lead singer landing on top of you, and at a Midnight Oil show I needed a towel to mop up the sweat flying off Peter Garrett's (bald) head. A good case for an exception to the "no filters" rule. In the front row, also, the front-line security goons will spot a camera and try to put you in a headlock---making them work their way through the mosh pit gives you time for a discreet withdrawal. Chuck Albertson Seattle, Wash. > I've stolen a few shots at concerts where photography was banned and there > you have to be quite surreptitious in your camera handling. > Apart from recommending a second row seat, rather than a front row, there's > also a better chance of getting what you want during the encore, as the > bother of having someone ejected with only one more number to go isn't worth > the hassle. > > But about Leica handling. I decided rather than raise the camera > conspicuously to my eye, I'd shoot from chest height, this I achieved with a > Visoflex 3 removing the eye level prism but looking down to focus and > compose on the ground glass screen. With the bright spotlights on the > artists the focusing wasn't a problem, I was using a 180/2.8 lens. Although > the eventual equipment combination was bulky it had the benefit of being > able to be dismantled into several bits for transport in pockets. >