Pentax Q Firmware update
Pentax has released a new firmware update for the Q PENTAX Firmware Update Software for Q which dramatically improves the autofocus, especially in low light. It wasn’t that the Q was bad before but there is a noticeable speed increase. At the moment though the only lens I own with autofocus is the standard prime. A quick test in very low light shows that the camera is able to focus at 3200 ISO f1.9 and 1/4sec which is about -1EV which is very good and approaching DSLR levels.
I often take the Pentax Q with me when I’m out simply because it outperforms its size. What I mean by that is for the small amount of space it takes up it exceeds any other camera I have. It can be jammed into a jacket pocket or worn around the neck either way it’s hardly noticeable. As for wearing it that’s something that gets little mention, most cameras its size don’t have a neck strap and I prefer to wear cameras that way rather than with a wrist strap. This gallery of images from the last two weeks were taken with the 01 prime lens the 03 Fish Eye and my Homebrew 40mm.
