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Saturday, November 02, 2013

Official: Details of New Q System 08 Wide Zoom Lens



Via: http://www.ricoh-imaging.co.jp/japan/products/q7/lenses/index.html

In short,  the following are the specs:

- 3.8-5.9mm, 35mm equivalent on Q7 is 17.5-27mm
- Maximum apertures from F3.7 to F4
- 3 glass-molded aspherical elements
- 38mm in length and 75g in weight
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Real · 592 weeks ago

It brand now make me feel they are sissy... Nofullframe only fanboys allowed
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K-x · 592 weeks ago

This lens will make the Q7 an even better 'second camera' to go with a pentax DSLR. Wide angle lens to me is more for landscape and creative/fun stuffs. It can potentially replace my Sigma 10-20mm f4-5.6 when I go traveling, reducing the overall weight and volume of the gears.
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Heiko · 592 weeks ago

It's about time for the "Q" to gain a little momentum. What's the point of an interchangeable lens camera when there is/ has been a lack of lens choices?
Now, what the next Q camera needs is a viewfinder. Even if Pentax does it with a cheap see-through window (cheap would actually fit the package well) maybe with manually "switch-able" frame-lines for the prime-lenses...
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Dan Johnson · 592 weeks ago

I think going with a removable EVF for this or a pricey Range-Finder gives an inexpensive option as well as an upgrade option (ala Zeiss Ikon style) for your second camera. Also no mater how good an after-market variable aperture lens is, the original equipment manufacturer's (OEM) has the advantage of matching the camera's algorithms to the aperture created as you zoom the lens. Of course the price diiferance can off-set the variable on a high quality lens depending on your demands.
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Heiko · 592 weeks ago

you don't mean a "real" range-finder as in mechanically coupled to the lens' focus, do you? (Would be impossible with the current lens-lineup, anyway). Mechanically complex systems are what makes manufacturing pricey - that's why nearly all the P&S digicams lost their finders throughout the last decades.

On film every P&S had to have one. Such a finder would be enough for me. I've got an idea: put some framelines onto an strech of sliding windows // as to slide in the fitting frame lines into the finder as needed for the attached lens. Make two "screens" have about 2..3 different frame lines and one without any markings, let the user slide the screen of choice into the see-through finder and GO!
Cheap, easy, and out of everyones way when shooting real photos.
Where are the chaps from the patent-office when I need'em ;-)

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