Very nice. Great color and detail in the web image. How do they hold up at high resolution. Enough there for a 12 x 18?
Best, Paul On Sep 1, 2012, at 7:26 PM, Mark C 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. -- 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.
