I appreciate your comments. Thanks for taking the time to put together such a well worded response. I am looking for something small and light that I can take with me when I am not really going out to take pictures with my current equipment. Right now that would end up being my iPhone - which is also something to consider. Anyone out there ever used any of the clip on lenses for the iPhone? Any thoughts about that vs something like the Q?
-- Bruce On March 19, 2015 2:56:31 PM PDT, Donald Guthrie <[email protected]> wrote: >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 >> -- Sent from Kaiten Mail. Please excuse my brevity. -- Sent from Kaiten Mail. Please excuse my brevity. -- 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.
