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It has a bit of a sex-appeal.
I will have to get it anyway for testing ...
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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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[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.
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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.