Pentax launch the Q
Where do the three lens mounts come from?
Q, K and 645.
Dan
Where do the three lens mounts come from?
Q, K and 645.
Dan
Pentax also makes many c mount, medical, binocular, and compact camera lenses... no new news here, to be honest...
I hope the sensor finds its way into cheaper Pentax compacts.
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Looks handsome in black, IMO!
they seem to have the af system from the 18-135 and built in nd filters, these puppies are advanced and I hope to see a k mount version of that zoom for video shooters!
flash syncs up to 1/2000!
Wide open apertures in daylight is easily possible for shallow dof with fill flash!
Even the k5 cannot do that! (without an external hs flash)
On the other side of the coin I wonder really who they are aiming at with the combination of price and likely LX3-5/XZ-1 level of image quality. Maybe it will start a new niche between compacts and EVILs but at the moment it's more expensive than many larger sensor EVIL offerings.
I hope the Pentax market research department are on the ball with this one like they've been with the K-5 / K-7
Sure is a cute little camera though....
that flash pops up and over! definately a bonus and a sighn that a big telephoto is being considered!
If Pentax can do with this Sony sensor what they did with the k5's sony sensor... it won't match the k5, but it will meet or exceed the 4/3's and also have a mass market appeal like none before it.
the k5 does in fact hold it's own against cameras with larger sensors according to dxo labs, after all...
I already have a camera with this backlit sony exmor R sensor in my Sony TX-5
The IQ is better than the sensor in my previous Sony Compact, the T900. but I can't imagine it would meet the quality of a much bigger 4/3rds sensor which has probably 10 times the area .... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image_sensor_format
Once you get over ISO200 image Q degrades considerably, and some awful noise reduction is used.
So for a small compact costing a couple of hundred quid the senor is very good, but for somrthing costing nearly 600 quid.... nope.
Lenses: Pentax DA 10-17mm ED(IF) Fish Eye, Pentax DA 14mm f/2.8, Sigma 17-70mm f/2.8, Pentax-A 28mm f/2.8, Sigma 30mm F1.4 EX DC, Pentax-A 50mm f/1.2, Pentax-A 50mm f/1.4, Pentax-FA 50mm f/1.4, Pentax-A 50mm f/1.7, Pentax DA* 50-135mm f/2.8, Sigma 135-400mm APO DG, and more ..
Flash: AF-540FGZ, Vivitar 283
http://www.pentax.co.uk/en/digital-mirrorless/specifications/PENTAX-Q
Lenses: Pentax DA 10-17mm ED(IF) Fish Eye, Pentax DA 14mm f/2.8, Sigma 17-70mm f/2.8, Pentax-A 28mm f/2.8, Sigma 30mm F1.4 EX DC, Pentax-A 50mm f/1.2, Pentax-A 50mm f/1.4, Pentax-FA 50mm f/1.4, Pentax-A 50mm f/1.7, Pentax DA* 50-135mm f/2.8, Sigma 135-400mm APO DG, and more ..
Flash: AF-540FGZ, Vivitar 283
It seems there are a lot of folk (from what I've read so far) who just don't "get" this camera. Stop thinking of it as a poor man's DSLR and instead think of it as the ultimate pocket digicam - once the street price comes down (and it will) to G12/LX5 levels these will fly off the shelves.
Well done Pentax!
Then factor in that the bright 1.9 lens will mean you probably won't need such high iso's, and things don't look so bad.
I certainly wouldn't spend 600.00 on it, but really it's not so awful, and it's not like they're forcing anyone to buy it!
I anticipate that if a bigger version of this hits the market in the fall with a standard kmount, Pentax will lay cllaim to BOTH the smallest ilc system and the highest quality sensor EVER in an evil cam come this fall when the NC-1 comes out.
As to why they put their money into this and not a super-telephoto? Because they will almost certainly make more money from it.
Just because a product isn't something you want, doesn't make it a bad product. I hope that those people shouting "fail" so loudly are made to eat their words, but only because that will mean Pentax is making money. It is in all our interests for Pentax to remain a viable and competitive company.
K.
It is an illusion that photos are made with the camera… they are made with the eye, heart and head. Henri Cartier-Bresson
Lots of film bodies, a couple of digital ones, too many lenses (mainly older glass) and a Horseman LE 5x4.
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