Good news! You can preorder the Richo GXR M-mount Leica module at BHphoto (Click here).
ThePhoBlographer (Click here) took some pictures with the Ricoh GXR with Leica M-Mount A12 of the Hurricane Irene’s Effects!
Ricoh M-module image samples at Outbackphoto (Click here).
Official Pentax Q photos at Pentax Japan (Click here).
9 Responses
Q image sample?
thats the most elaborate hoax camera ever!
Those Pentax Q photos in the website looks not bad.
Not bad until you consider the highest ISO used is 200 😀
Q samples are great, they really get a lot out of that sensor.
Whoever tested the GXR-M tho really doesn’t know what to do with a leica lens and seems very inexperienced with manual focus. The outbackphoto ones are nice, but not very useful for testing.
if those are real actual images out of the Q this is actually quite good.. but i dont think so
So what you’re saying is it’s -unbelievably good- is what you’re saying.
actually, is this camera really selling well?
Icannot imagine anyone rational actually buys it but I see some people posting some samples from it already and they seem loving it.
but I lost any respect to Pentax and Richo.
Pentax is a big con-artist, cheating naive people, this is not a system camera but a toy.
Jake, don’t blame Ricoh for the Pentax Q, the ugly duckling that won’t grow up a swan. It came with the package when buying Pentax camera division.
Ricoh are fairly intelligent people and make useful products. I have the GXR with the A12 M mount, it is a solid performer and the user interface is the best on the current market. (as compared to Nikon, Canon, Olympus, Panasonic, Sony dSLR and EVF cameras – the rest I haven’t owned so I cannot compare.)
We’ll have to see what comes out of the merger, I think Ricoh will benefit from Pentax R&D knowledge and vice versa. Leave it to Ricoh to design the user interface though.