RiceHigh's Pentax Blog: The New Q is Named the Q-S1

Friday, August 01, 2014

The New Q is Named the Q-S1

http://digicame-info.com/2014/07/qq-s1.html
(in Japanese)

Probably, this is just a Q7 with an original Q shell in a different painted dress, i.e., a 1/1.7" sensor inside. As an original Q user, I am sure that I will not buy one. The colour game of Pentax and Ricoh is just a history for me and I am sure I shall not buy a new Pentax camera anymore for the sake of its colour and appearance, unless Ricoh yet produces something real in the future, which they have not done that for long! >:(

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Bukaj · 555 weeks ago

Where are the specifications, on which you based your judgement? Thanks!

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amnesix · 555 weeks ago

It's in-built. Ricehigh is some kind of God Of The Photography, omniscient, all-mighty, and all that.

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RiceHigh 110p · 554 weeks ago

This applies to RP too, in the eyes of their fanboys.

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seldom guest · 555 weeks ago

"unless Ricoh yet produces something real in the future, which they have not done that for long"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?&v=4oT-fnHHTFs

is this real?

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RiceHigh 110p · 555 weeks ago

Will you buy this real thing then?

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seldom guest · 555 weeks ago

YES! I already have ordered this real thing.

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RiceHigh 110p · 554 weeks ago

So, forget everything Ricoh Pentax that are unreal then.

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Dante · 555 weeks ago

The reviewer loves the 645Z but says at the end that the gap is closing between full frame and medium format. That doesn't sound like good news at all considering the large investment Pentax has made with medium format. They should have invested in full frame instead of this very expensive and elitist 645Z and kept their base customers happy.

But what does the expensive and unattainable (to me) 645Z have to do with the puny little gold toy pictured above?

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Heiko · 554 weeks ago

I detect a little bit of envy in your thought.
Embarrassingly that small portion of negative thinking is very known to me, as well. how I would LOVE to use something like the 645 (make that a "D" or a "Z", up to you)!

Is there something wrong with selling working pros and wealthy men an alternative to what's out there, a camera that actually gets prais for being "the right size" for many a photographic opportunity?

I do not believe it is wrong. Some day - maybe I will have the pleasure of actually using a 645 of my own. Until then...

...speaking of formats: Pentax should finally consider putting out a "mirrorless" camera on their own and/or offering lens-adapters to (a / multiple) select systems that make the electronics work. Now that third-Party lenses of real worth are starting to appear that are specifically designed for smaller flange-distances than any K-Mount camera can handle - it starts to make sense to embrace that market.
AND keep it APS-C (or make that round/quadratic-sized-sensors with 24mm side-stretch) -- so that Pentax' own lenses of today keep their place and value. Would be a shame for those delicious limited-pancakes with their soft-yet-rigid metal feel to get left behind.

In other words: Keeping compatibility WHILE embracing modern technology (in the sense of now-usable EVFs and realtime-imaging-pipelines) would be a sign of reassurance to consumers.

BUT still - "Q" needs a *tough* camera-body with a built-in viewfinder. As much as their aforementioned/dreamed first APS-C mirrorless.

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Guest · 555 weeks ago

Your post sounds a lot like the spam comments I delete from my blog. It's just words without meaning.

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RiceHigh 110p · 554 weeks ago

Yours actually.

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fullframe wonderer · 554 weeks ago

RH, What do you think of the news from "asahi man" at dpr? Does he really know what they are and aren't showing at photokina?

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RiceHigh 110p · 554 weeks ago

The tone of that member tells us that he knows something well, but it's all up to people to believe it or not! ;-)

http://www.dpreview.com/members/6122446619/overvi...

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Peye · 554 weeks ago

After Photokina we'll know for sure. After reading his other comments I don't think he's telling any BS.

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VoiceOfReason · 554 weeks ago

Here it is officially: http://www.us.ricoh-imaging.com/qsystem/QS-1_Blac...

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RiceHigh 110p · 554 weeks ago

Yet another redressed lame product, after three years, no breakthrough! Damn!

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Klaus · 554 weeks ago

Actually I liked the original Q quite a bit.
I am tempted to give this one another try.

The time of "breakthroughs" is over across the industry - not just at Pentax.
A few new lenses would be nice though.
The Q-series could use a long tele for instance.

Klaus
photozone.de