Hexar AF adventures

[andersju]

Inspired by Roland's thread, I want to share some pics from this year's Roskilde festival, one of the largest music festivals in Europe with approx. 100 000-110 000 participants in total. Knowing it was going to be a fair amount of rain and mud, I didn't dare take with me my Ricoh GRD and chose the Hexar AF instead.

Turned out to be a wise choice; it was the wettest Roskilde ever, with Thursday being the most extreme day with continuous rain for about ~20 hours. The camera was soaked many times and half covered with mud, but never complained. This is the one camera that I'll never sell. I just wish I had taken more pictures. But there's always a next year..

These are all Tri-X, straight from Nikon Scan, no post-processing.

 

[feenej]

very nice pics

 

[cmedin]

That's too funny, I opened the thread and immediately thought 'man, that looks like Roskilde'. Thanks for sharing!

 

[jky]

Thanks for sharing the nice pics!

 

[jmilkins]

great images anders. that looks like an amazing festival. no way I'd be brave enough to take anything other than a nikonos with that much water around! And look what cool shots i might have missed.

 

[Marc-A.]

Thanks for sharing that great series. The Hexar AF seems to be a wonderful camera, and that lens ... wow.

 

[ferider]

Thanks for sharing those, Anders, great photos and it seems you had fun !

The Hexar AF re-incarnation of the Nikkor 35 (also a relative of
the UC Hexanon) is really an amazing lens.

I look at my AFs as (quieter) Leicas with auto-everything, if needed

Roland.