Hi,
Learned about the Pentax Q today. It has some nice ideas, but a 1/2.3" sensor and a US$800 price tag. Not sure this will/can fly. There are not that many lenses on offer. I would expect for the time being (until that is a real system, if it ever becomes), many users are better served with the likes of Canon S95, G12, Lumix LX or Olympus XZ1.
Will be interesting to see how that copes with dust, the small sensor must be a lot more prone to dust problems.
A few links:
http://www.imaging-resource.com/PRODS/PENTAXQ/PENTAXQA.HTM
http://dpreview.com/previews/pentaxQ/
http://www.dcresource.com/news/newsitem.php?id=4330
Joachim
enjoy
It has a bit of a sex-appeal.
I will have to get it anyway for testing ...
To me it is not small enough in body, and too expensive. But finally we have a system that can really potentially offer smaller lenses to go with the smaller system. I'll keep watching and hope Pentax stays around long enough to do something even better.
I don't mind the sensor size myself. I recently got a Sony HX9V which I think has the same size sensor. Other than the system being diffraction limited all the time, the quality is a lot better than you might think if you don't pixel peep! The Pentax here would at least have the potential not to be diffraction limited when using a sufficiently fast lens.
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I think I want it..
A good demonstration of the size of this thing: http://www.imaging-resource.com/PRODS/PENTAXQ/PENTAXQ-productshots.html
[quote name='Klaus' timestamp='1308813675' post='9419']
It has a bit of a sex-appeal.
I will have to get it anyway for testing ...
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You think so? I am surprised that you want to test it.
With that small a sensor all this "adapting odd lenses" game doesn't make sense. Actually I think you need an in-lens shutter. So which lenses do you want to test? I assume the toy and fish eye lenses will not be the next PZ high scorer, which leaves the prime and the std-zoom.
enjoy
[quote name='Alexander ' timestamp='1308815608' post='9423']
A good demonstration of the size of this thing: http://www.imaging-resource.com/PRODS/PENTAXQ/PENTAXQ-productshots.html
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Very good indeed, thanks for the link.
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With this small a sensor, finally a camera on which I could put my high quality Schneider 8mm small film lenses? <img src='http://forum.photozone.de/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/laugh.gif' class='bbc_emoticon' alt=':lol:' />
Right, let's see if I understand this correctly:
Pentax Q's sensor area is 0.6x of that Panasonic LX5's.
The 27.5-83mm zoom lens is f/2.8-4.5 (as opposed to LX5's 24-90mm f/2.0-3.3).
And with this zoom lens RRP is $1,100 - twice the LX5's.
Am I missing something here, or it's just another "Ricoh GXR"?
[quote name='Lomskij' timestamp='1308819006' post='9428']
Right, let's see if I understand this correctly:
Pentax Q's sensor area is 0.6x of that Panasonic LX5's.
The 27.5-83mm zoom lens is f/2.8-4.5 (as opposed to LX5's 24-90mm f/2.0-3.3).
And with this zoom lens RRP is $1,100 - twice the LX5's.
Am I missing something here, or it's just another "Ricoh GXR"?
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Nope you ain't missing something, but some folks at Hoya/Pentax sure seem to lack some common sense.
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