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Thursday, January 31, 2013

New Product Photos of the AF360FGZII Flash and the Q Body Cap Pinhole Lens




Via: http://www.pentax.jp/japan/news/announce/20130130.html
(in Japanese)

Note that the body cap pinhole lens is NOT a REAL Pinhole lens as there is glass/optics inside the hole! It is because owing to the really small-sized sensor of the Q, it is not possible to make a small enough hole to produce a sharp enough image but at the same time to observe the diffraction limit before everything is yet blurred much again! :-o

Last time I tried, I made a pinhole K-mount body cap lens myself, see the photos below:-









And it works, which will give you toy like images that a classical pinhole (film) camera could give! Life is easier with DSLR, though, as I did always set to ISO 1600 or above when used with my pinhole lens, on my K-x! >:-(

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There doesn't seem to be any exciting news for any system owner out there this year. Just a bunch of compacts and some rehashed m4/3 lenses. The q lenscap has been long requested though, so I imagine that and the new flash will make some people happy. My metz died and while I would consider the new flash it lacks an automode, so I am better served by just repairing my trusty metz 54. The autothyristor is awesome and very useful with manual lenses. I have had no problems with it whatsoever asides from the bulb finally blowing. Bounce flash is pretty hard on a flash since they fire full blast quite a bit....
2 replies · active 633 weeks ago
This year? It's January, FFS...
Ok...so far this year is more what I meant to say. You would think that for cp+ manufacturers would be showing off more. Its the largest show in japan if I read correctly.
Will you make me a body cap pinhole for a reasonable price? Maybe sign it? I want th rice high cap lol!
2 replies · active 633 weeks ago
The material cost of making this is about $2, only! :-D
Finally pentax made a lens tgat doesn't backfocus....
Wow, thanks for the tip! My K-x is also a navy colored body BTW. Still works well after nine years, and finally applied your debug file mode recently. I haven't totally given up on it yet thanks to your debug file. :)

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