{"id":7007,"date":"2012-10-22T07:00:04","date_gmt":"2012-10-22T14:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/?p=7007"},"modified":"2012-10-21T22:12:30","modified_gmt":"2012-10-22T05:12:30","slug":"q","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/?p=7007","title":{"rendered":"Q"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Well more than a year after it’s initial release I bought a Pentax Q.\u00a0 Partly because of the drop in price and partly because with the release of the Q10 Pentax has shown that they intend to support this lens mount further.\u00a0 This is an interesting camera and many of the reviews of it focus heavily on it’s sensor size.\u00a0 My initial testing of it when it was released and early use of\u00a0 my own has shown that it out performs 35mm film in almost all cases except achieving shallow depth of field.\u00a0 That’s the yard stick I’m comparing it to and I shoot plenty of film and am not unhappy with that.\u00a0 If cameras are tools, and they are, then having the right tool for a job is important.\u00a0 If the job is to have a fast adjustable tiny unobtrusive camera than this is that hammer.\u00a0 The other thing that I plan to use this camera for that would otherwise be difficult and expensive is as a super telephoto.\u00a0 To achieve this I plan to use a K to Q mount adapter\u00a0with my 100mm macro giving me a 550mm equivalent focal length.\u00a0 For now though I am enjoying using the 8.5mm 1:1.9 lens (47mm equivalent in terms of 35mm film) that came with it.\u00a0 I am playing around learning the camera and the files it creates so these are a mix from\u00a0Lightroom and an\u00a0iPad.\u00a0 The ones from the \u00a0iPad don’t have any lens corrections and are perhaps over done, Lightroom is far better for getting natural results.<\/p>\n\n\t\t