Bruce, handling is not a word I would use with the Q. It is light and
fits in one hand nicely. I carried it that way on this walk & gave it no
thought until I saw something to photograph. Once when I was on a tall
bridge in the wind, I did think maybe a wrist strap would be nice but I
don't want to encumber it that much. As I mentioned elsewhere I it
will make an excellent bu camera when traveling. Something to carry when
you have nothing in particular in mind but handy when something jumps
up. But it is easy to forget you have it with you. I think it would work
for street and festival shooting quite nicely as it is not the least bit
scary about it. People take no notice of it when shooting.
Technically it is very capable. Auto would work 99% of the time. I shoot
raw and AV but only out of habit. It has some tricks (HDR, Dramatic BW.
ND filters) that I have not played with too much. I have the kit lens
and the Toy Fisheye & will pick up the prime lens soon. If you pop a
standard lens with an adapter it does have focus peeking and zoom in
focus with manual lenses. The 28mm adds some bulk but still easy enuf to
carry & use. (altho my manual focusing has never been the best) anything
longer than the 28mm might require tripod even with IS. But even a 100mm
macro lens would give you the reach 0f 500+ mm and it gets tough find
subject and focus w/o tripod.
While it's light it seems solid and not a toy. You can hold it like any
other camera but It is small enuf to shoot one handed and get into
places other cameras won't go. Depth of field is the weak point of
course. Small sensor and small apertures give great DOP damn physics.
There is a built in software cheat but have not had time to try it. Sort
of that faux tilt shift mode I assume. However you will not stop down
past F5.6 because de-fraction beats you up pretty quickly.
Any specific questions fire away. I have one more set in que on:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/valdon/sets/72157649084439983/
These are of a bike ride I took a week ago across a half mile 13 story
high bridge spanning the Des Moines river valley.
I also will be posting a scene I took with the Q and my Kr at the same
time. The differences are not all that great, but the carrying weight
sure is.
Thanks for you interest.
On 3/19/15 10:36 AM, [email protected] wrote:
Message: 8 Date: Thu, 19 Mar 2015 08:25:20 -0700 From: Bruce
<[email protected]> To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List
<[email protected]> Subject: Re: Geso Q landscapes Message-ID:
<[email protected]> Content-Type:
text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Some good shots, there. Seems that the Q
system is capable of some good shots - we know the photographer is not
the weak link in the chain. How was handling of the camera/lenses?
Have you attempted anything with really shallow DOF and how did it
turn out? -- Bruce On March 17, 2015 11:55:57 AM PDT, Donald Guthrie
<[email protected]> wrote:
>Here are a few landscape type shots taken with the Q7. The first 5 were
>
>taken with kit zoom. The second 5 were taken using the Pentax M 28mm
>with a $20 adapter. The 4.6 crop factor results in 128 FL.
>
>Comments invited.
>
>https://www.flickr.com/photos/valdon/sets/72157650976431200/
>
>https://flic.kr/s/aHsk8Jw9U9
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