Kuopio RockCock 2013

Saying “don’t fix it, if it ain’t broken” reflect perfectly this years Kuopio RockCock music festival. Two days of great weather and awesome music performances are more than one can ask for. My favorite bands on this year festival was Amaranthe (SWE), Helloween & U.D.O from Germany. Of course there were many other great artist, but that was my top 3.

 

Picture gallery for this event:

Medium Film format

Haudi hou! I recently bought my first medium format film camera. It’s called Hasselblad500 C/M. I have to say I love this beast! It takes very sharp and detailed photos, Only downside is that it’s heavy and bulky carry around & challenging to operate because it’s full manual nature. It doesen’t even have a build in light meter, so one have to use seperate lightmeter or the Sunny 16 rule when taking photos. Here are my first Sample film roll pictures.

Here’s some basic info about the camera. The Hasselblad 500C was first introduced in 1957 by the Victor Hasselblad AB, replacing the original focal plane shutter models 1600F and 1000F. It was replaced by the 500C/M (M for modified according to the factory), featuring an interchangeable focusing screen and an improved automatic back, the A-series film magazines.

Following the design of the previous models, the Victor Hasselblad AB made the V-series completely modular: Not only the lenses, but also the winding crank, the viewfinder and the film magazine are exchangeable during normal operation of the camera. Hasselblad came with a 12-shot magazine for 120 film.

 

Dead Cult Diaries

Dead Cult Diaries is a promising new band from Jyväskylä. Songs combines elements of punk, pop and hard Rock. Dead Cult Diaries won a Radio Rock Rockstarba-contest last summer. I was checking their live gig at bar Musta Kynnys & shot few photos. I suggest that you check out these photos and official Dead Cult Diaries – Boys & Toys music video from Youtube

Kuopio RockCock 2012

I really enjoyed using my new film-camera on Kuopio RockCock music festival. I shot about 15 rolls of film on this event. That many films what was pain to develop, but I did it! I would like to thank all the festival organisers, bands and all the kind people who may appear on my photos. Click the picture straight to photo gallery.

Analog is back

Allrighty then! I recently have been little bored with my photography hobby. I think one reason is that too much digitalgear are released nowadays, and you can’t buy them all. This triggered me to go back to basics, and really gave me reason to learn some oldschool photography. I went to do some shopping on ebay. I bought an old Canon A-1 film camera + few lenses, 35mm negative scanner and photochemisty kits, that I could learn the basics how to develop color and black & white negatives at home. I had quite tense two weeks of learning curve, but surprisingly I learned the basics of film photography quite fast.

I really enjoy taking “Real Photographs” using Canon A-1 manual focus lenses, and the fact that I can’t see my photos straight away from camera LCD screen makes photography alot more interesting and fun. I also like wider latitude on 35mm negative films, and those unique rendered colours that every different films can produce.

iPod Nano & iWatchz

Few days ago, I got this special urge to buy some high-tech stuff. I didn’t quite know what it would be, until I found this product called iWatchz. With this product you can wear your iPod Nano (6 generation) like a wristwatch. I thought it would be perfect for listening music when I go to the Gym. I didn’t have a wristwatch, and I sometimes thought that my iPhone 4 music player wasn’t small enough, so I bought iPod Nano too.

There are several different watch bracelets, and styles to choose from iwatchz collections. Timepiece collection was one of my favorite. You can check all the collections from the product webpage www.iwatchz.com. iPod Nano has many different clock faces to choose from. I added few pictures so you can check them out for your self. Here’s the official webpage www.apple.com/ipodnano.

In my opinion this product rocks & it’s awesome. Build in quality is also excellent. I think this is a quite funny way to combine two products together.

Please note! You need to buy iPod Nano separately, if you buy iWatchz.