Acceptable quality of Pentax Q shots

[Jesito]

As much I use this little cam, better results I get from it. What I like most is the size.

Thesea are a few samples that show the Prime 8,5mm lens is not so bad:



I could say this one es quite sharp:



Playing with the NEX-7 of a colleague at lunch time:



I'm still keeping it after several weeks, it's a really enjoyable camera.

[Bob van Sikorski]

sorry, but samples of those size look great even from 20usd camera. have you 1:1 samples?

[Jesito]

Of course. In big size tey look also good.
I don't want to clobber the forum with gigantic pictures, so I pass here some pointers for these same ones in 1:1 size (4000x3000)
Not bad in my taste.

Anyway, most of my pictures end in a web site at 800x600 pixels

http://minus.com/lJ4piJMONC6if

http://minus.com/lWC0596TrtCVm

http://minus.com/ln0nZXAqPlyMV

[tromboads]

That's plenty of resolution

Looks good from here.

[Jesito]

THis one past saturday, dull day with cold weather:

[std]

The last one is very nice

[Jesito]

[Jesito]

This one is showing the Hologon 16mm of my friend Albert, mounted on the Ricoh GXR A12-M (leica mount) module. This module renders very well, and the Hologon is a pretty lens and the picture is clean and sharp:

[mo]

Jes, I am glad you are persevering with this camera...that B&W image is amazing.

[tromboads]

are we already yet to say the size of the sensor doesn't matter as much as we think it should?

[Jesito]

[Jesito]

[mo]

I guess it will be trial and error until you find that perfect lens From the lenses you have already tried what has been the "best" lens so far?

[Jesito]

[tromboads]

So my partner must have over heard me muttering about the silly little Q. She went and bought me one for our anniversary

I'm just "developing" the first images now

God they really are tiny!

It really is the funniest thing looking at it, seeing the flash mount and thinking... sif I'd ever use that! Then you turn it over and of course there is a full size normal tripod mount and im like.. Geeees pentax don't really do anything by half's.

Also. It really does feel as sturdy as they say. Its confidently rugged.

Ridding back from work I had no troubles using it one handed, Autofocus is quick as you need, I guess I'll know about the metering in a few seconds. (slow sd card )

Screen even in direct light is useable. AND! there is a button to turn it off completely if you just your manual view finder.

I haven't used a point and shoot for so long so it was a little strange not having that comfortable camera blanket up around my face honestly. It is absolutely a non imposing camera tho. Practically silent, anything but aggressive. It's lovely. I'm going to enjoy stalking tourists around the cbd with this thing

Re: Manual lenses. The camera doesn't have a shutter! It's in the lens. the electronic shutter is good for 1/13th of a second. Changing that just messes with the ISO so forget it. Use the Pentax primes. I have the "standard prime" too. the focus color is fine. I suppose it's electronic coupled and has very fine steps, no lag, useful.

I just wish the preset button down the front was more customizable. you can select from 5 different genres of quick settings. I wish i could pick and choose between either of them.

Anyway SD card has downloaded. bye bye

[tromboads]

What fun

For a point and shoot i think its important that you point and shoot


It has this saturate everything mode, Kinda Fun






The last one had the most, actually it had the only post processing :p I pushed the black value all the way up to knock out some detail in the dominating building in the forefront, just in effort to make it cooler



For this image I imported the raw then realized i don't have any profiles to correct lens distortion :p oh well. So I tarted up the saturation to bring some blue back. This is only here because i was excited it kept the detail in the underside of the branches even with all that other crap going on. It was full "auto" and it kept the detail. See post at start re being it important that a point and shoot points and shoots There won't be any landscape prices with this little sensor, but its nice to know the dynamic range is really quite reasonable.

And just to be fair to the little Q. This is what It saw before I wanted more blue


More mega black and white saturation.


It would be nice if you could control the "filter setting" or make your own to be honest, because once you get over worrying about quality of the sensor and what not, and try to think back to the subject and content, quality quickly becomes a uninteresting question. Ie I would have a bnW Filter that looked more like HP5 for you old ducks. Well, less saturation and a more grey feel about it. Oh well. I can still post that later from the raw naturally. It's just the point in a point in shoot is that you can compose and be done with it limiting and getting rid of any post work. But I still have raw files if i truly feel mental

And lastly for the inner hipsters in us all the " old colour film setting" if you will, mutes things down nicely




Again only to show you there are details in the shadows. Wooo Hooo!

The little "standard prime" flares like a trooper in direct sunlight. Thankfully tho its not exactly hard to raise your hand and nuke it outa the way. But yes I feel I should tell you all it does.

Anyway.. What a fun little thing. This thing will be ace once I get a chance to walk around the city stalking some people. It's so small and tiny no one is going to feel uncomfortable with this little thing being raised toward them


Album for the pixel peepers in us all here
https://plus.google.com/photos/108498827340748937615/albums/5893616304652632097?authkey=CLGc-JDpsMrkuwE

[tromboads]

Oh and here it is next to my watch to give you an idea of just how adorable they are!!!!

[Jesito]

Nice samples, I didn't know about that "saturate" mode... Seems interesting.
I still keep using it a lot. But not found any usaeble MF lens for it.
The last firm update got better AF precission and speed, now is even useable

I've set it dual shooting: RAW+JPG and activated the B&W mode, so I get a full RAW image and a B&W JPG that uses to be fine straight out of the camera...

Now Pentax has annouced the Q7 with a bigger sensor... Neverending story.

[fermy]

Not sure about saturate everything, but first two B&W are stellar.

[tromboads]

When I selected a filter it didn't leave me the raw... hmmmmmmm I had raw+ selected as normal but was surprised it didnt leave the raw... how did you make yours do that? :p

Yes the firmware update is good. Its nice and quick now.

Yes I don't really like the over sat everythknfnlook either. At the time it was the only way I could see to shoot a black and white image in camera... but then I read the manual :p

And why shoot it on camera. Cause its a point and shoot and its fun gord darn it. :p

[Jesito]

[tromboads]

thanks for the tip! it indeed will dump the raw image to disk through the gallery of the last image Haaaaaandy!

[tromboads]

You do get buckets of depth with 8mm :p even at f1.9 there is ample articulation of edges. And even the shitty detail in the carpet is pronounced. And the edges are straight. Theses are all jpeg's out of device. Bigger ones are found over here

Small cameras are fun.

[tromboads]

Yep. It works with trees too.

Bigger. And without the mflenses blur filter

[Jesito]

Love these!