Hexar AF First Photos

[cee]

First time caller here...

I got hooked on photography with the Ricoh GRD. 22,000 shots later it's still going strong, and I'm interested in shooting film again, hopefully learning to develop.

I've been fortunate, at age 32, to have experienced both the analog and digital realms, in photography, music, and architecture, among others.

The Hexar AF is a real pleasure to use, and not as cumbersome as I had expected.

Enjoy!

 

[jimmy2thou]

Lovely photos. I really like number 3. The colours and sharpness in all of them is simply amazing!

 

[dovi]

Nice Work

Nice Work

More! More!

Looks great.

 

[Mablo]

I like the first one (except that lamp behind the head...). It shows how good the Hexar AF lens is opened up. I think they designed it to be used that way.

 

[filmfan]

Nice color shots but they are over-sharpened like as if they are coming from a cheap scanner or were treated with too much unsharp mask.
Keep up the good work.

 

[Vics]

That's a great camera! Back in the early '90s our now defunct Unruh's Photo Shop let me take one of these out on approval for a weekend. I shot a roll of HP5+ and was just knocked out by the results! I didn't b uy it, but it sure was impressive!

 

[cee]

Wow, thanks for the kind comments everyone!

filmfan- I did resize in photoshop. The scanning of the (cheap) Fuji 200 was done by the lab. They are all digitally tagged "AgfaPhoto GmbH d-lab.2/3" and about 4.5 MB each.

I paid $9.00 for the processing and scanning (no prints).

It seems like the Epson V-series is the only affordable scanner? For now, I'll rely on the lab I suppose...

 

[filmfan]

Wow, thanks for the kind comments everyone!

filmfan- I did resize in photoshop. The scanning of the (cheap) Fuji 200 was done by the lab. They are all digitally tagged "AgfaPhoto GmbH d-lab.2/3" and about 4.5 MB each.

I paid $9.00 for the processing and scanning (no prints).

It seems like the Epson V-series is the only affordable scanner? For now, I'll rely on the lab I suppose...

I would not worry about it for now... just enjoy the camera. You are getting nice results already.
It's very hard to get a negative to look good on a monitor and only slightly becomes easier with practice. When my shots are scanned with a lab's scanner, they always look very digital. You know... that super crispness that is hard to look at for more than a second? It's the clinical look that I use film in order to avoid. I am no photoshop guru, but maybe there is something we can both learn in order to soften our lab-scanned photos.
Have fun.