It’s time to give you an update about the tiniest of all mirrorless system cameras, the Pentax Q! Pentaxforum (Click here) got his hands on the new Q mount lens roadmap. As you see there will be:
– a new telephoto zoom -> should be a 80-200mm lens.
– a new wide-angle prime.
– a new telephoto prime.
– a toy “body cap” lens.
And the japanese company Rayqual (Click here) announced new M- and G-mount adapters for the Pentax Q system.
So the Q system is slowly getting mature and we have to see if this will help the camera sales which weren’t that spectacular outside Japan.
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I am still trying to understand the purpose of this camera line as well as the chunky designer stuff…..
The Ricoh GXR with the M mount makes sense but not these.
At the moment it is just a curiosity.
If they manage to build it up however there are some potential advantages. It should be possible to make more expensive lenses for the Q than is realistic for a normal compact as well as odd ones. Thus opening up niche markets. The fisheye is one example. Imagine a fast supertele as another example. Today if you want to get really close you have two alternatives; a compact superzoom with a very slow lens at the tele-end or a DSLR with an very big, very expensive lens. The Q could reasonably offer a third alternative in between.
With the small lenses, them being non collapsible means that they could potentially beat high end compacts in power-on to first shot with quite a margin – could be interesting for street-shooters.
In the end it is all about niches and curiosity. It will never become mainstream.
It’s truly pocketable and a joy to use. I take it with me when I don’t want to bring my NEX or DSLRs. It’s just fun.
Why there’s no pentax mirrorless systems on this website’s camera database?
I saw the advantage of this system being super fast lenses, but that hasn’t really come to fruition yet. Like putting a 50mm f1.4 on becomes a 280mm f1.4. Or a 4-20mm f1.2 etc. Let’s not get into a DOF debate, but for light gathering I think the Q could be awesome. They have also come down in price a lot. I would love one with the 8.5 f1.9 and add-on OVF.
How about this 25mm 1.1? http://www.ebay.com/itm/New-MS-Optical-Sonnetar-25mm-f-1-1-Pentax-q-mount-25-F-1-1-/280825244802?pt=Camera_Lenses&hash=item41627d2c82
Nice catch!!! 🙂