This is the last band we listened to that day, and it went well into the evening before we headed home (which took a long time due to the crowds present). This sort of lighting makes it really difficult to manual focus, even with the peeking function. I've got my settings set to high and yellow. This is where I changes to red because I couldn't really determine when focus was achieved or not. I had to differentiate between the rather yellow lighting and the peeking fuction. Didn't work too well which is why I changed to red. Worked a lot better. I'm glad I had the 135 on the camera. It was perfect for what I wanted.

I not only listened to the bands, I wandered the stalls that were a little off the main section. You could listen to some people doing their own thing here as the one in this image. Althought he 135 was a little long for this type of photography I did my utmost to get some different images during the day.

This band did a couple of pieces just playing their guitars and excellent pieces they were too. I wish I could have stayed longer to listen to them but my better half wanted to move on. I got a couple of shots in before I left though.

I would just like to post a few more shots taken with this lens to show you how sharp these can be if you get the focus right. This lady was not part of the band and I think she was getting married shortly after. She just got up on stage and sang a song with the help of the band. She was quite good too.

Another advantage of these concerts where the singers can't move around too much is pre-setting the focus at a certain f-stop. If you then want to take a photograph just raise the camera to your eye, change EC if necessary and press the button. Bingo.

Certainly the lens lacks a little contrast, but nearly all of these older lenses do. Lens design and manufacture has improved over time as well as new lens coatings have been introduced. I don't find it a problem that they lack a little contrast, just add a little more during post processing. Some might find that remark a little disturbing, but then again I don't earn my living by being a professional photographer. They might see things a little different than myself.

Like I said in the previous post, if you get the focus right, you cannot complain about image quality (provided you get a good copy of the lens of course). I must admit, I was shooting constantly with the two system I took and I did have a lot of misfocused shots. I deleted a lot of images from this outing. But, the more I used it, the more I knew where to focus to get in focus what I wanted in focus. practice makes perfect the say, and I personally don't shoot often enough to reach perfection with these systems.