Published: 2012-02-01, Author: Philip , review by: popphoto.com
The main downside to the Pentax Q is the price. At $800, street, with the Standard 1 lens, it's far more expensive than most comparable standard compacts such as the Canon S95 ($340, street), and pricier than even some large-sensor ILCs, such as the Olymp...
With the introduction of the Q, Pentax finally entered the EVIL (Electronic Viewfinder Interchangeable Lens) world. This camera boasts some nice features when compared to prosumer type cameras, with an advantage that the Q offers the ability to swap le...
Abstract: I think the ‘Q' in the Pentax Q name stands for Quagmire because this camera is nearly impossible to categorize. On one hand, it's a great portable interchangeable lens camera system, which will appeal to more advanced shooters. Yet on the other hand, the...
Sharp images, Excellent video quality, Good low light performance, Built-in flash, Silent operation,
Very expensive, Slow to start up and process images, Photos lack depth, Included lens doesn’t zoom,
The Pentax Q is the most compact interchangeable lens camera you can buy. But a small sensor that limits fine detail in images, slow start up and processing performance, and a high sticker price hold this small shooter back. ...
Smallest interchangeable lens camera in the world; solid build quality, Good photo quality at low ISOs, Sensorshift image stabilization, Sharp 3inch LCD display has 460k pixels, good low light visibility, Full manual controls, with RAW support (including the ability to turn the last JPEG taken into a RAW image), WB fine tuning, and custom functions, Tons of special effects, many of which can be a
Expensive, Body may be too compact; controls are small, cluttered, and often poorly placed; hard to hold camera without accidentally bumping something important, Middle and high ISO image quality not as good as competition, Tends to clip highlights (use DR Correction to reduce that); images on the soft side, Poor battery life, Redeye a problem (but can be corrected in playback mode), Movie mode a
Conclusion In case you haven't noticed, the trend on recent interchangeable lenses has been "smaller". Those of you who thought the Panasonic GF3 and Olympus E-PM1 were small will be shocked to see the Pentax Q in person. As I illustrated at the top o...
The Pentax Q may look like a toy camera at first glance, but it actually proves to be a lot more full featured and intuitive to use in practice. Compact-like image quality and a sky-high price tag, however, combine to seriously detract from what is ot...
Incredibly compactOption to save last image as RAW
Very expensiveShort battery lifeInconsistent image qualityMultiple issues with video capture
Pentax may have managed to create the world's smallest mirrorless camera with this $800 ILC, but if image quality is more important than body size, the Q is not for you....
Published: 2011-10-22, Author: Jeremy , review by: camcorderinfo.com
The Pentax Q performed admirably in our video tests, but its color accuracy and sharpness results were a notch lower than we normally see from a compact interchangeable lens camera. Like most cameras in this class, it's able to record decent video,...
To this point, the design philosophy of your typical compact system camera has been to utilize as large an image sensor as possible while shaving down other components to offer an interchangeable lens camera that is, at the very least, more portable t...
Small design, sharp & low noise images at ISO 125400 settings, long lenses small in size, faster flash sync due to leaf shutter lenses (limited to 1/250th sec with external flash however)
Poor LCD screen, small sensor size means lack of shallow depth of field control, BC (Bokeh Control) mode is flawed and poor, function dial placed awkwardly by lens, not possible to fit an EVF, slow Raw shooting due to small buffer, expensive
The Pentax Q already has divided opinion and is likely to continue to do so. It's a true mix of genius and insanity blended into one product that, therefore, makes it underwhelming. The Q's small sensor does mean lack of shallow depth of field control ...
