BTW, great spider shots. I'm hoping for a few more q lenses. Maybe PR has realized that under $400 is a good price to lure folks in and make a cheaper version of the Q.
On Sat, Sep 1, 2012 at 7:39 PM, Steven Desjardins <[email protected]> wrote: > This one will hold just the Q, maybe another lens, some batteries. > It's really small though and well made. > > http://www.amazon.com/National-Geographic-NG-A1212-Vertical/dp/B003WE9MCI/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1346542526&sr=8-3&keywords=national+geographic+bag > > There are some other NG bags there as well. > > On Sat, Sep 1, 2012 at 7:26 PM, Mark C <[email protected]> wrote: >> My Pentax Q arrived on Wednesday, a full day sooner than expected. I had >> planned to leave first thing that morning for a business trip, but was >> delayed by a few hours and luckily was able to scoop up the camera and >> lenses and take the kit with me as I headed out. I had a chance to test >> drive it a bit and read the manual while I was away. >> >> When I got home late last night the K to Q adapter was waiting for me. >> Earlier today I went out looking for subjects to try with the Q and D-FA >> 100mm macro lens. I was thinking about the striking spider shots in the post >> that Darren shared a while back. and by chance my garden provided two large >> spiders to serve as photographic subjects. >> >> So - here are my first macro shots with the Pentax Q: >> >> http://www.markcassino.com/b2evolution/blog6.php/2012/09/01/two-spiders >> >> The light today is quite flat as the remnants of Isaac roll through the >> area, and this afternoon we had a pretty good rain, so no other chances to >> take the system out. >> >> A few comments on the Q: >> >> - It is small and fun and the image quality is quite good. I'm very >> impressed at how well it performs. Noise is much less of an issue than I >> expected. The small sensor means low magnification of subject and therefore >> lots of DOF, but for macro work that is a boon. I would not use this as a >> portrait camera though. >> >> - The Zoom lens is a joy to work with. Nicely dampened action, quality >> built. I wish Pentax would build K mount lenses that are this solid. >> >> - Pentax has done a great job of building a standard interface across >> cameras. I picked up the Q and was shooting. Everything made sense. The only >> thing I needed to look up in the manual was how to activate the MF assist on >> the toy lenses. >> >> - The Q with the kit lens or one of the small lenses is pretty much >> pocketable. With the zoom, not so much so... >> >> Regarding the lenses that I have (first impressions here) - >> >> Stock 8mm f1.8 lens: Nice and sharp but barrel distortion is off putting. >> Yes, I can enable distortion correction but I wish they had produced a lens >> with less distortion. Has decent close focusing ability. >> >> 5 to 15mm Zoom - a joy to work with and very good results. Great all round >> zoom. >> >> Fisheye - I have a hard time focusing this even with MF assist enabled. >> Looking at my shots, I always had my finger on the lens's focus ring (and >> visible in the shot). Its a super cool ultra wide but takes some getting >> used to (at least by me). Its a reminder that ultra wides can be as >> difficult to work with as ultra telephotos. >> >> Toy Telephoto - I only took a handful e of shots with this. I did not see >> any Holga-like distortions but none of the shots I took were very sharp. I >> assume that was operator error - I had not figured out how to use the MF >> assist on toy lenses yet when I tried it. I need to give this a more >> thorough testing. >> >> I'll probably grab the "wide" toy lens and have a full set of lenses - it >> would be nice if Pentax came out with some more Q lenses, but I'd be >> surprised if they did. >> >> Overall - this is a really cool and fun system, great IQ with the attributes >> that you would expect from a small sensor re DOF . >> >> Do any Q users have a recommendation re a good bag to carry a full Q Kit in? >> This used bundle that I bought came with a case logic bag that holds >> everything, but everything is jumbling around in the bag. The smallest 35mm >> SLR bag I have is about 2x too big and has partitions for lenses that are >> many times the size of the Q lenses. >> >> Mark >> >> >> >> -- >> 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. > > > > -- > Steve Desjardins -- Steve Desjardins -- 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.
