"This guy certainly gets it" link: http://www.seriouscompacts.com/f90/pentax-q-real-world-user-review-11773/index4.html#post91442 You'll find Pinholecam on seriouscompacts.com and pentaxforums.com
On Tue, Aug 21, 2012 at 7:46 AM, Darren Addy <[email protected]> wrote: > No, I believe it is a Super Q that takes K-mount lenses in AF. The > idea, from Pentax's viewpoint is to sell more lenses. > > Pentax is doubling down on the Q (as well they should). A near "Q" > with an AF K-mount and this range of normal lens is going to be > awesome. > > It is the perfect time to make people take another look (beyond their > prejudices) at the original Q model (now selling for $399) and then > this one. > The small sensor gives you all kinds of advantages with its extremely > high DOF, especially for macro. If this is a Q with an autofocus > K-mount then Pentax is going to sell a million DFA 100mm Macros to go > with it. > On a Q sensor that gives you the whole bug in focus (not merely a > slice) and at the other end it gives you a 560mm super telephoto (all > in one lens). > > The thing they are going to have going against them is all the people > who still don't "get" the Q. This guy certainly gets it. > > This camera is using a slightly larger Sony Exmor-R than the Q has...1/2.8" > Think iPhone's sensor only much larger. > > This is going to be a macro & birder's dream camera (along with > everything in between). It is also going to be another camera that no > understands and Pentax takes a bashing for, at least initially. But > this one is a Winner with a capital W. -- "The key to seeing the world's soul, and in the process wakening one's own, is to get over the confusion by which we think that fact is real and imagination an illusion. It is the other way around." -Thomas Moore, "Original Self" -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
