hexar af

since we were talking about the hexar rf, i was wondering about the

hexar af.

 

i'm thinking of getting one for a daily carry camera and cannot seem

to find any info about recent pricing.

does anyone have a (ballpark) figure for one nowadays?

 

i have a bessa r with 35&75 /2.5 lenses that i never use and i'm

thinking of selling or trading for the hexar.

 

any help greatly appreciated.

 

joe

The silver versions go for around $400 on Ebay. A bit more for the black ones. Except for mint Hexars with their boxes, none of them seem to go for $500... yet. Great camera, if you like a 35mm view; I wish they had made one with a 50mm.

I use mine as a P&S, and yes, it is a real camera. I just turn it on and shoot, sometimes from the hip. I don't like all the options, menus and buttons. In the street, silent mode is not necessary. For weddings/baptism/church/shy street people photography silent mode is quite nice. It does have a very fine lens attached. I paid $450 for a black model, used.

<p>I paid 36,000 <a href="http://www.xe.com/">yen</a> for a black one,

used.</p><p>The last page of the manual -- both the printed

manual for the black one, and the PDF available somewhere or other on

the web for the silver one -- tells us:

"撮影可能本数：約200本(24枚撮りフィルム)".

Very literally: "photography possible length number: about 200 lengths

(24-exposure film)", which unless I'm mistaken means that the estimated

life of the camera is 200 rolls of 24-exposure film. I hope that some zeros

have got mislaid or that this refers to, say, the capacity of the battery

in the data back. Well, I report what I read -- a charming little discovery

I made

just last night.</p>

Buy a Silver model, since they go for less money due to the absence of the Stealth mode. Then go to the Hexar review on photo.net, scroll to the bottom of the comments, and find the posted instructions for adding stealt to the Silver model, and you're in business. And trust me, it does work.

Peter Evans...I believe that the 200 24 roll number refers to the life of the battery, not the life of the camera.

About 2 years ago on *bay I got a LN- condition Silver with original box, manual, lens cap, new battery and strap (but no HX-14 flash) for just under US $430. Recently they seem to be going for between US $400 and $500 depending on the condition. I'd go with a Silver since it's newer (last produced in 1999 I believe) and can be self-programmed for "silent mode" as mentioned above. I haven't since I don't really need that, but you may. All the automation is OK and works very well, but it's the lens that makes this a great photographic instrument. As Erwin Puts told me in an e-mail, "90% of the time you couldn't tell the difference between its results and Leica's Summicron 35 f/2 pre-aspheric." You--and others--may not believe much or anything he says, but you will believe the results you get from this camera/lens.

I would imagine that the 10% of the time you could find the difference, it was probably in

favor of the hexar. I like its lens even better than the 35mm f/1.4 ASPH, though it of

course does not have the extra stop.

Go for it. At roughly $400 (silver, excellent condition) it's the best value for money you will find. I converted it to stealth mode in three minutes and it is just incredible how discrete you can get with that plus AF and AE. It has become my everywhere companion since.

<center><img src="http://www.photo.net/bboard/image?bboard_upload_id=22225384"><p><i>hexar af, wide open</i></center>

I got a black one as a present for my girlfriend for $430. Wish it were mine.

The lens gives as good '3-D' as anything you'll ever see posted here!!

<a href="http://www.photo.net/photo/3181654"><img src="http://www.photo.net/photodb/image-display?photo_id=3181654&size=sm"></a>

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Hexar AF, Fuji Reala

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Bought my Silver secondhand in Jan 2004 for EUR 299 (inc. HX14 flash). The Classic next to it was EUR 375 (also incl. HX14). Basically cause at the store they hadn't figured out the silent mode fix.

Lutz, That's a really fine photo regardless of the equipment used!

Oh, thanks, S.! :-)

Great camera. Get one.

I got a Silver in April for 250 Euros, including the flash. I use it as my 'take it anywhere, anytime' camera. Besides being a great camera it's looks are also very nice.