Hexar AF - Arista Premium 100 in D76

[Kalkadan]

City Hall - Leopard Trees.  I love the light in this place but have found it difficult to capture satisfactorily in either digital or film.  This Hexar AF shot (entirely on automatic - maybe I had set the aperture) is as close as I have been able to come.  The silvery light on the tree trunks is what interested me.



Another with the Hexar AF in the early morning light of the City.

[LarryD]

Those are nice but I bet you could capture what you want using Rodinal full stand 1-100 or development or Diafine. Film also makes a difference and you all know I prefer the Rollei 80S or the Superpan 200 retro.

[GerryM]

Nice detail! I think those images are very well done.

[Kalkadan]

Thank you Gerry.

Larry I am keen to try the legendary Rodinal, and Diafine.  I will get to it sometime over the next few months.  As I have just returned to developing after a 15 year layoff I am cautiously practising my technique with simple things to lift my awareness of what the film and the lenses can do with a specific developer, dilution and time/temp/agitation.  So much to learn! 

[rgeorge911]

I think that first shot really shows the quality of the light on the trees nicely.  Of course, I couldn't be there to compare it to the real scene!

Reed

[LarryD]

Well as my instructor told us all last week and this week. "Crawl-Walk then Run." At this moment I am trying to clear some C-41 I processed in Acufine.

[Julio1fer]

Well done again, that lens looks really sharp. Nice light and compositions!

[jamesmck]

Number one is a gem!

[Kalkadan]

Thanks Julio and James.  Yes the hexar AF is proving to be a gem.  I am still getting used to it.  Finding out what it can do is so much easier when developing yourself.
Its auto exposure is very good.  This is another example of what it can do.  I like beach scenes in sepia for some reason.

[Nick Merritt]

Dan, do you have the steps for setting the "hidden" features memorized yet?  I always have to refresh my memory when I step out with mine.

[Kalkadan]

Nick - I confess I have not been able to do that, yet!  It is hard enough for me to remember how to dial in the exposure compensation 

However the more I use it the more I find that I need only to use the aperture I want and to keep an eye on the shutter speed (the limit, as you know, being 1/250).

I have studied that loooong thread about the Hexar AF on photonet.com - to which our own Lili contributed at one time - and I like going back to it because it reminds me what an Aladdin's cave this camera is.  There are layers and layers of functions to explore if you want to.  Mine is a Silver and someone before me had programmed it with the silent function so I use that from time to time, but not much as the normal shutter and wind on sound is so slight that it is hard to hear with ambient noise: with the silent function activated I had no idea if the shot was made!

I also have the original instruction manual - and 'that' is a masterpiece, not! (as my kids would say) but it has a lot of info nonetheless.

How about posting some of your shots with this machine?  I am starting to notice (or I think I am - the illusion is the reality after all) that it has a distinctive look about it.

Dan

[Wayne]

Dan, I think you did a great job of capturing that interesting light in the first shot and the Hexar has done a stirling job against the sun in the second. I really love the beach picture - those clouds really make the shot. Looks like you haven't lost your touch with developing film!