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What is the Pentax Q?
Its not a micro four thirds, its smaller.
It's odd, because its not a point and click, but its not a real DSLR either, its currently the worlds smallest camera with interchangable lenses thou.
I bought one for when I'm cycling and doing things that you don't want to be carrying more than 300grams extra, but you still want something better than you'd get with a point and click, whilst offering creativity and fun of different lenses, the manual fish eye lens is great fun for example:
That is my friend Sanh. He is Vietnamese despite wearing my rather fetching bush hat, he is not an aussie, he is a nice fellow. He has never owned a SLR or DSLR, but likes photography, his spoken english isn't good, and my spoken Vietnamese is much worse. I lent him my Pentax Q for a bit of night photography.
Lanterns (can you guess where this is yet?)
Spiced Sweetcorn.
Ah floaty lanterns, yes this is Hoi An.
he played with it a bit more the next day:
Good colours.
His wife and their unborn womb filler.
Here's a picture of him taken with my K-5 + a 77mm lim, it shows how despite the small size, its not cramped or unpleasant:
I think he enjoys photography! He very much liked the camera, commenting it had a lot of features he'd need to learn and master.
I played with it a little bit during that trip:
Very low light environment.
Elephant Ear Fish!
Okay, I went OTT with the blacks!
So despite been a compitent little camera it was second fiddle to my k-5 the whole trip. This is the oddity, at £250 with a prime, or £399 with a prime and the wide to telephoto, its not cheap, but its not expensive either.
I'll come back later with my conclusions, the less-compressed images are all available here, so you can see the difference between post pro and nothing. Use FastStone (free) if you can't view the images, or buy the FastCodecPack (well worth it imho).
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