Top photographers using Hexar? show me

[jaimiepeeters]

The Konica Hexar AF has been hailed as THE best Street Photography camera around by many. Now I've been trying to find some seriously top billing street photographers that have been and are using the hexar, but still couldn't find any.

Show me those Bruce Gildens of the hexar users...

 

[Frank Petronio]

Top billing street photographers? You mean the ones with the most overdue bills?

 

[Gabriel M.A.]

- top billing
- street photographer
- Bruce Gilden imitator
- uses Hexar-branded equipment

I can't think of a single one that fits all criteria.

 

[astrosecret]

not a street photographer though.

 

[Gabriel M.A.]

Leibowitz sure is top-billing, but is she a Bruce Gilden street photographer?

 

[FrankS]

To the original poster: it could be you!
Get a H-RF and go for it.

I know I love using it for street photography with a Canon 28.
While I'm not top-billing, I do have a lot of bills.
😉

 

[Meakin]

My first thought was why is this important?

But since you are asking (so it must be important to you), I seem to remember that Alex Majoli of Magnum fame was a fan at one point - not sure he lives up to the criteria though 😉


Cheers,

/Meakin

 

[user237428934]

I think christopher anderson used a Hexar AF but he is - like all the others - no street photographer.

Is there a single photographer earning money with street photography? I assume that all of them need some other jobs or projects for a living and they do street photography for fun or as art projects.

 

[gmacgregor]

David Solomons is a terrific English street photographer who has used the Hexar AF (and maybe still does here and there). I believe quite a few of his 'Up West' photos were taken with it:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/davidsolomons/sets/72157594194417175/

See him in action with the camera shooting frames from that series here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cFY4kfqXl2Q

And do yourself a favour and spend some time browsing his flickr stream:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/davidsolomons/

 

[FrankS]

Good video of shooting in the street.

I prefer the H-RF to the H-AF because I like to zone focus, since AF will miss the subject when it's not centered and focus instead on the background. One can set the focus distance manually on the H-AF but there is no DOF scale to go by on the lens. With the H-RF, one adds the ability to use different focal lengths.

I've bought and sold the H-AF several times, not so with my H-RF.

 

[pggunn]

I've never had the opportunity to try the Hexar RF or AF, but have wanted the H-RF for several years now, so took a look at this thread.

I'm glad I did because I just spent an hour looking through David Solomon's Flickr stream. I like his work very much and look forward to watching the video.

Thanks for the links gmacgregor.

 

[Spyro]

street photography and billing are mutually exclusive terms

other than that, Jesse Marlow
http://www.jessemarlow.com/

 

[Richard G]

Just top is easier to answer: most of the RFFers using the Hexar. Seriously good stuff.

 

[Trius]

FrankS is tops in my book.

Other than that, who the f*ck cares?

 

[dreilly]

Md2008, who's posting in the threat Hexar AF journal, is a top photographer in my book. I doubt he's making anything off his efforts other than artistic actualization and a little acclaim at RFF, but it's great work nonetheless.

Too bad there isn't such a market for interesting street photography (or photos of cats).

 

[Frank Petronio]

I've kept buying and selling Hexar AFs over the years. Its auto-focus is amazing but even though it's amazing, it isn't magical - and it is slow to set it to zone focus. Plus I never know for sure what it auto-focuses on or sometimes, because it is so quiet, whether I even made the shot?! So I get disenchanted and sell them... only to come back a year or two later when I remember what a great value they are (top quality images for $500).

But now that both the Hexar AF and RF are showing their age, electronically, I am less inclined to buy them again... the switches go, the electronics break, parts are nearly impossibly to find... same reason not to buy older electronic SLRs, unless they are so cheap you can buy several.

 

[filmfan]

Christopher Anderson
Alex Majoli

 

[filmfan]

David Solomons is a terrific English street photographer who has used the Hexar AF...
See him in action with the camera shooting frames from that series here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cFY4kfqXl2Q

The photos he takes in this video are horrible if you ask me...

 

[jsrockit]

The photos he takes in this video are horrible if you ask me...

I agree, but let's put you or I in the same situation and we aren't probably going to get much either... getting a keeper while being video'd for a little while seems hard.

 

[cosmo]

Severin Koller, street photog from Vienna just posted a whole street series with a Hexar:

http://severinkoller.at/blog/?p=271