I picked up a K 50 f4 to use with the Q. It's pretty light (noticeably lighter than the K50 1.4) and gives a nicer balance with the small body.
On Sat, Sep 1, 2012 at 10:00 PM, Mark C <pdml-m...@charter.net> wrote: > I shot between F2.8 and F8, with most shots int he f4 to 5.6 range. Can't > say where any of these shots are. It was gusty with low light so most of the > shots had motion blur due to the wind. I have to say - I did not see a huge > difference on the LCD on the camera when I focused at f 2.8 and stopped down > to f 5.6 or f8. I was expecting to see a significant difference in DOF. > > > On 9/1/2012 9:48 PM, J.C. O'Connell wrote: >> >> I would still like to see more DOF on those shots. What aperture setting >> did >> you use? >> >> ----------------- >> J.C.O'Connell >> hifis...@gate.net >> ----------------- >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: pdml-boun...@pdml.net [mailto:pdml-boun...@pdml.net] On Behalf Of >> Mark >> C >> Sent: Saturday, September 01, 2012 7:27 PM >> To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List >> Subject: GESO - First Macro Shots with Pentax Q (And First Q impressions) >> >> My Pentax Q arrived on Wednesday, a full day sooner than expected. I had >> planned to leave first thing that morning for a business trip, but was >> delayed by a few hours and luckily was able to scoop up the camera and >> lenses and take the kit with me as I headed out. I had a chance to test >> drive it a bit and read the manual while I was away. >> >> When I got home late last night the K to Q adapter was waiting for me. >> Earlier today I went out looking for subjects to try with the Q and D-FA >> 100mm macro lens. I was thinking about the striking spider shots in the >> post that Darren shared a while back. and by chance my garden provided >> two large spiders to serve as photographic subjects. >> >> So - here are my first macro shots with the Pentax Q: >> >> http://www.markcassino.com/b2evolution/blog6.php/2012/09/01/two-spiders >> >> The light today is quite flat as the remnants of Isaac roll through the >> area, and this afternoon we had a pretty good rain, so no other chances >> to take the system out. >> >> A few comments on the Q: >> >> - It is small and fun and the image quality is quite good. I'm very >> impressed at how well it performs. Noise is much less of an issue than >> I expected. The small sensor means low magnification of subject and >> therefore lots of DOF, but for macro work that is a boon. I would not >> use this as a portrait camera though. >> >> - The Zoom lens is a joy to work with. Nicely dampened action, quality >> built. I wish Pentax would build K mount lenses that are this solid. >> >> - Pentax has done a great job of building a standard interface across >> cameras. I picked up the Q and was shooting. Everything made sense. The >> only thing I needed to look up in the manual was how to activate the MF >> assist on the toy lenses. >> >> - The Q with the kit lens or one of the small lenses is pretty much >> pocketable. With the zoom, not so much so... >> >> Regarding the lenses that I have (first impressions here) - >> >> Stock 8mm f1.8 lens: Nice and sharp but barrel distortion is off >> putting. Yes, I can enable distortion correction but I wish they had >> produced a lens with less distortion. Has decent close focusing ability. >> >> 5 to 15mm Zoom - a joy to work with and very good results. Great all >> round zoom. >> >> Fisheye - I have a hard time focusing this even with MF assist enabled. >> Looking at my shots, I always had my finger on the lens's focus ring >> (and visible in the shot). Its a super cool ultra wide but takes some >> getting used to (at least by me). Its a reminder that ultra wides can be >> as difficult to work with as ultra telephotos. >> >> Toy Telephoto - I only took a handful e of shots with this. I did not >> see any Holga-like distortions but none of the shots I took were very >> sharp. I assume that was operator error - I had not figured out how to >> use the MF assist on toy lenses yet when I tried it. I need to give this >> a more thorough testing. >> >> I'll probably grab the "wide" toy lens and have a full set of lenses - >> it would be nice if Pentax came out with some more Q lenses, but I'd be >> surprised if they did. >> >> Overall - this is a really cool and fun system, great IQ with the >> attributes that you would expect from a small sensor re DOF . >> >> Do any Q users have a recommendation re a good bag to carry a full Q Kit >> in? This used bundle that I bought came with a case logic bag that holds >> everything, but everything is jumbling around in the bag. The smallest >> 35mm SLR bag I have is about 2x too big and has partitions for lenses >> that are many times the size of the Q lenses. >> >> Mark >> >> >> > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and > follow the directions. -- Steve Desjardins -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
