These are the first images of the new Pentax Q2 leaked by Digicameinfo. There are no specs yet but I am sure the camera will be announced within the next few days already!
These are the first images of the new Pentax Q2 leaked by Digicameinfo. There are no specs yet but I am sure the camera will be announced within the next few days already!
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This camera is a mistake just as the K-01 was. The K-01 failed because it brought no size advantage over DSLRs and this small CSC fails (everywhere except Japan) because of tiny sensor but in a body that is not significantly smaller than some 1″ or even M4/3 cameras. Thank God Pentax makes such excellent DSLRs, because if it depended on CSC it would already be dead.
The K-01 failed because the ego of Marc Newson: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4zsFtVYw68A
“My job as a designer is to be able to express myself” – I owned the camera and size wasn’t the main problem, the fact that it was slow and annoying to use was much worse.
The K-01 did not fail for it’s visual design (the part Marc did) but fot its stupid way they thought to take a way the mirror out their (execlent) DSLR and say hay, we have a mirrorless camera with a lot of lenses. People soon understood that if they wanted to use their Pentax lenses they better buy the Pentax DSLR then this strange cameraz, that focussed slow, was not cheap and was large (for a mirrorless camera) and not small (for a DSLR) so people left it alone…
In the size of the k01 they should have put an evf, at least. The IQ was very good, but that was not enough.
These CSC sold at above 500$ should all have an evf of some sort.
I’d love to have a built in EVF on the camera and a 1″ sensor. The Q line has been a joy but the specs need to evolve. A reasonably priced ILC with EVF, 1″ and Pentax ruggedization would be very attractive and could steal thunder from Sony’s RX100, M43 and Nikon 1.
very good looking – the Q1 has a surprisingly good IQ – but suffers due to size of sensor – like the Fuji x30 I think they could have a larger sensor – but that would mean new lenses and I expect they will not introduce a new larger sensor and new lenses – so I expect same sensor size but some minor improvements – not a game changer – Sony RX100m3 and Panasonic LX8 will own this segment