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Thursday, August 18, 2011

Pentax Q Stuff Prices are Out at B&H

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Q Item
US Street Prices (in US$)
Q Digital Camera with 8.5mm Lens (Black or White)
$800
5-15 mm Zoom Lens for Q Mount Cameras
$300
3.2 mm f/5.6 Fish Eye Lens for Q Series Cameras
$130
6.3 mm f/7.1 Toy Lens Wide-Angle for Q Mount Cameras
$80
18 mm f/8 Toy Lens Telephoto for Q Mount Cameras
$80

The toy lenses, whilst are ridiculously slow, are also decribed as having built-in "Toy Camera Effect", which possibly means that the optical quality of which would be inferior! Besides, the $300 kit zoom of the Q is not that small, regardless of the really small 1/2.3" sensor of the Q.

Oh well, after all, who will buy? Will you buy? :-o

Frankly, I am afraid that the prices are just too high to be competitive, especially for the (one and only one) basic kit! :-( For $200 more (which is yet not enough to buy an additional standard zoom of the Q!), people can get the top-of-the-line feature-rich and high performance and up-to-minute luxury ILDC of the Sony NEX-7! I would rather save the money to get the new flagship NEX body instead, period.


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I see the whole Pentax Q as an unnecessary distraction for Pentax. If it costs half ... then someone might buy it. But at this price with such a small sensor ... Not good at all. It definitely was a lot of money to develop it so it means less money for developing dSLRs.
1 reply · active 708 weeks ago
Selling such a camera at $800 is simply the worst joke ever in the camera history!
Not a chance! Maybe if the Camera is at 250 and lens at 150.

For $300 I can get something like a Fuji F550EXR. At $800 + $300 I might as well go for the Fuji X100.
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full_frame · 708 weeks ago

Marek makes an excellent point. It was a waste of R&D. Should have made the first full frame mirrorless that costs a quarter of the Leica rangefinder.
3 replies · active 708 weeks ago
Pentax' resources have usually been wasted in the last ten years. Things have become even more worse with the Hoya's takeover since 07, whom always wanted to find some shortcuts to earn more money but yet always failed!
While the Q is not a product for me, the 645D (for completely different reasons) is also not. But maybe for somebody else. I would not call it a waste of R&D simply because the product is not one I will buy. Maybe Pentax has developed other know-how which will be useful in the future for DSLRs.

However, the K-10D, K-7 and K-5 all felt to me as if I had personally written the spec sheet. The ergonomics (shape, GUI, etc.) is just PERFECT. Therefore, IMO, the next Pentax DSLR should look and feel EXACTLY like the K-5, if possible with a slightly bigger sensor (although FF is probably impossible), and have the O-GPS1 integrated. Improved autofocus accurary (not speed!) at low light would be desirable. But no further wishes here. I would buy it in an instant.

I have stated it over and over, mirrorless cameras are TOYs (all of them) because (i) rangefinders are outdated (ii) electronic viewfinders are crap. Thus, a serious camera with exchange lenses must have a mirror for the optical viewfinder. Just my opinion, but a strong one.
All cameras (and lenses) are toys for men (mainly).

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