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Wednesday, September 28, 2011

More WG-1 GPS Samples (of Mine)

As long as IQ is concerned, I am not convinced what the Q could do more than a contemporary P&S DC after viewing so many Q samples. In fact, user-friendliness wise, I believe that the Q does even have less portability, than most DCs.

Anyway, further to my last full review on my WG-1 GPS, I post some more more samples from the WG-1 so that anyone here can compare once again, to see if the Q could really supersede any current DC in IQ, and how would it be different, or not!

http://smg.photobucket.com/albums/v313/RiceHigh/WG-1_GPS/More_Samples/

All samples are resized to 12 megapixels. Original images are available for download per picture page.

You can measurebate again the resolution, colour rendition, dynamic range, noise, flare resistance and whatsoever. Nonetheless, the video quality is still terrible, which will not be changed at the end of the day! :-( Here is yet a sample clip (view in 720p for the best possible video quality):-


(URL: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3icTswewl9s)
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Pwong · 703 weeks ago

The option of interchangeable lens should have some value and the built quality is better than most DC, but Pentax should offer the unit at a more reasonable price (around US$600) to generate some volume. But the market is hard to predict, for example, the Fuji X100 is bigger, smaller LCD, no interchangeable lens (& always fixed lens) and with less pixels than Samsung NX10 plus 30/2 (also a fast lens!), but it is charging almost 3x more! I don't think their viewfinder should cost 2x the money of a Samsung NX10 30/2 kit set! But apparently, X100 is selling well despite that it is so over-priced on paper
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Toni · 703 weeks ago

Fuji X100 has some innovative features that others do not have, in its viewfinder, AF, etc, and also very good image quality for its size, BUT has only one focal length, Pentax Q has mainly a small size, cuteness, BUT little image quality. It is just as expensive considering you have to buy more lenses to get that interchangeable lens advantage, and just as bulky if not more with those lenses. The 6 million dollar question then boils down to how much you value different focal lengths on a small camera with very limited image quality. If you don't get others lenses, what's the point? Its image quality is inferior in comparison.

If however the various focal lengths are so important, and you can live with limited image quality, there is still a question why you want to change lenses? Compared to other good compact cameras like the Sony HX9v, LX5 etc, the Q is not any better in image quality (no need to split hairs with the limited iq of all those compacts), while requiring lens changes to get the same pictures, not to mention the significant higher costs. There may be a half stop advantage in some lenses, and maybe more if Pentax care to make big aperture lenses for the Q? But is the cost, the weight, worth it, considering again the quality, which you can get with any of the better compact zoom cameras? And there will be better ones coming out soon, like the Canon S100, which will no doubt be followed by something like an LX7, or XZ-2 etc.

Sorry, but this Q just does not make any sense to me, at this price, and why this level of image quality is worth the trouble, cost and inconvenience of buying, carrying and changing lenses.

The only reasons I can think of for buying this, is people with sentimental feeling about Pentax, those who just want to show off cute little things regardless of image results, and

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