RiceHigh's Pentax Blog: New Pentax Reviews: Q7 and K-50

Friday, August 09, 2013

New Pentax Reviews: Q7 and K-50

1. DPR's Q7 review is out. Wow, it is completed published so quickly this time. Has Ricoh done something? ;-)

http://www.dpreview.com/reviews/pentax-q7

The overall mark given is quite low, though.

2. Full K-50 review at PF:

http://www.pentaxforums.com/reviews/pentax-k-50-review/conclusion.html

So, this is the key point of the conclusion:

"With that said, the K-50 is essentially nothing more than a K-30 in a redesigned casing. The differences that do exist between these two cameras are subtle and do not affect image quality or usability. The only new feature to speak of is dedicated support for eye-fi wireless SD cards. Thus, relative to the competition, Pentax has stood still for about a year now."

"The one thing that discourages us from recommending the K-50 is the fact that it's so similar to the K-30."

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Z.T. · 605 weeks ago

DPR reviewing Q7 made a system error: judged the camera by putting it in a wrong category. It's like throwing a Lightweight class boxer in the ring with the Heavyweight Mike Tyson. Because their world and axioms are still very medieval.
I'd expect from a responsible person like yourself, who otherwise carefully examines and dissects talks of Pentax / Ricoh execs to minute details to find faults, to apply same discriminating mind in assessing the assessors of the brand cameras that challenge norms.

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RiceHigh 110p · 605 weeks ago

Only after I bought my Q at a cut-throat price, I started to understand and appreciate its value and design rationale. So, I agree with you this time, the Q is unique in the market and that's why it still succeeded. Any other direct comparison to other categories of DCs may not be appropriate.

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zosX · 604 weeks ago

They do note that the lenses are much smaller and lighter than m4/3 but also talk about how the body is not much smaller than a m4/3 body. Its clear to me they made the Q10/Q7 larger because people complained that the original Q was too small. So maybe they addressed that? One statement in their review caught me. They claim the olympus zoom is like a 1lb where the Q equivalent lens is a mere 3oz. That's a pretty big difference.