Pentax Q camera, lenses and viewfinder now available for pre-order

By PR admin | Published: June 23, 2011
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The new Pentax Q camera, lenses and viewfinder are now available for pre-order at Adorama:

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22 Comments

  1. grayscale
    Posted June 23, 2011 at 3:21 pm | Permalink

    Propriety Lens mount?….. FAIL
    Why wouldn’t they go MFT

    • grayscale
      Posted June 23, 2011 at 3:23 pm | Permalink

      Spelling…FAIL,
      *Proprietary

    • mog
      Posted June 24, 2011 at 7:23 pm | Permalink

      Why would they go with microFourThirds lens when the sensor size is not FourThirds sized?

      This camera requires something like a Super 16 film size lens. Obviously the old 16mm PL mounts are not fit for this size, not even the C-mounts look to big on a camera this size, a proprietary mount is the only way. I’m sure it has an insanely short FFD.

      • grayscale
        Posted June 25, 2011 at 2:49 am | Permalink

        That’s my point, who wants a shitty compact camera that can change lenses.. they should have a mft size sensor… FAIL

  2. Sir. Kozy Shakens
    Posted June 23, 2011 at 3:47 pm | Permalink

    Tiny Winy. Size is not important.

    http://img64.imageshack.us/img64/2204/thinnywinny.jpg

  3. Pete Peterson
    Posted June 23, 2011 at 4:14 pm | Permalink

    I take 2 for 800 Yen … ;-)

  4. jsv
    Posted June 23, 2011 at 4:19 pm | Permalink

    Why such a small sensor? Samsung at least had it somewhat right by using an APS-C (DX) sized sensor. This is fairly sad–and there’s even a bokeh “filter” built into the camera software. Strange. Well, to each his own. I’ll stick with my bigger sensors and stop trying to cheat the laws of physics.

  5. Sir. Kozy Shakens
    Posted June 23, 2011 at 4:56 pm | Permalink

    What about 8×10 camera emulation filter…?

  6. photoartbymark
    Posted June 23, 2011 at 5:12 pm | Permalink

    too small for me never had a pentax

  7. nick and abel
    Posted June 23, 2011 at 5:17 pm | Permalink

    good if you only post photo on facebook

  8. nick and abel
    Posted June 23, 2011 at 5:18 pm | Permalink

    just made lens for samsung, pentax

  9. Rob
    Posted June 23, 2011 at 7:27 pm | Permalink

    I want to see how the inbuilt bokeh filter works? depth mapping? I imagine it to be a cheesy feature with shit results though so I cant imagine any real innovation here :L

  10. 42PL
    Posted June 23, 2011 at 9:54 pm | Permalink

    The pricing is just so insane. So you buy this and the zoom for $1,100. Think about what kind of camera you can get for that kind of money. This is just silly.

  11. Eric
    Posted June 23, 2011 at 11:23 pm | Permalink

    With a 4/3 size sensor or something similar even if it was slightly smaller this would have interested me, given the brand, the great primes the companie releases, the size, looks, etc. With the current sensor and prime Id rather buy a M43 which is barely bigger, or a good point and shoot for half the price or less.

  12. Joaquim Prado
    Posted June 24, 2011 at 12:47 am | Permalink

    800!??? No way!!

  13. zlvc
    Posted June 24, 2011 at 1:43 am | Permalink

    that`s more expensive than k-r, pentax is insulting me.

  14. Sub-par Daemon
    Posted June 24, 2011 at 5:32 am | Permalink

    i have a feeling that pentax found a niche that no one else tapped before.

    …because i can’t imagine a scenario where someone would need such a camera.

    i mean, 2/3″ sensor? $800? come *on*. no professional photographer would ever touch something like this, and for those who don’t care about bokeh and suchlike, a compact soapbox with a decent zoom and bright lens is more than enough… for half the price.

    so, fantastic development for no one. too bad. pentax should stick to dslrs and medium format.

  15. I am
    Posted June 24, 2011 at 7:48 am | Permalink

    $800?! A nikon Fhave fallen on the head Pentax’ directors.

    PENTAX: -Take a canon S95 just add some bulkier sike and double the price. Ta-daa!! our now camera is alive.

  16. dbas
    Posted June 24, 2011 at 9:00 am | Permalink

    Including the slow zoom lens, this is twice the price of a XZ-1 or a E-PL2. Unbelievable. They must have taken a page out of Sigma’s marketing books.

  17. lorenzino
    Posted June 24, 2011 at 11:49 am | Permalink

    During the presentation of this epic fail, the most used word is “kawai”, which means “cute”. As if the retro style could compensate for the bad iq, high price

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cu1bO1nS358&feature=newsweather

  18. Bernard
    Posted June 24, 2011 at 5:50 pm | Permalink

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QnIR3GHPlCo

    The samples now taken down from here:
    http://www.imaging-resource.com/PRODS/PENTAXQ/PENTAXQA7.HTM

    were much better looking than this non RAW shooter:
    http://www.dpreview.com/reviews/nikonp300/

    If the IQ is good then it will have a market for those that can afford it

    • lorenzino
      Posted June 25, 2011 at 1:40 pm | Permalink

      Sorry, Bernard, I can afford it, but why should I buy it? There are already better systems out there, if marginally bigger, and soon new systems will join, including a Pentax apsc one. As good as the images are for a sensor of this size, they compare to cameras that are smaller and far cheaper. Can they seriously be compared with the upcoming Sony Nex 7, that will cost something but not much more? Remember that, pricewise, the camera is in the same league of the best of m43 and apsc mirrorless.

      Well, let’s hope for Pentax that Japanese housewives have a lot of money to waste this year…