{"id":8448,"date":"2013-04-08T07:00:03","date_gmt":"2013-04-08T14:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/?p=8448"},"modified":"2013-04-07T20:52:18","modified_gmt":"2013-04-08T03:52:18","slug":"pentax-q-firmware-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/?p=8448","title":{"rendered":"Pentax Q Firmware update"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Pentax has\u00a0released a new firmware update for the Q\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 PENTAX Firmware Update Software for Q<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 which dramatically improves the autofocus, especially in low light.\u00a0 It wasn’t that the Q was bad before but there is a noticeable\u00a0speed increase.\u00a0 At the moment though the only lens\u00a0I own with autofocus is the standard prime.\u00a0 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.<\/p>\n

I often take the Pentax Q with me when I’m out simply because it outperforms its size.\u00a0 What I mean by that is for the small amount of space it takes up it exceeds any other camera I have.\u00a0 It can be jammed into a jacket pocket or worn around the neck either way it’s hardly\u00a0noticeable.\u00a0 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.\u00a0 This gallery of images from the last two weeks were taken with the 01 prime lens the 03 Fish Eye <\/a>and my Homebrew 40mm<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\t\t