The ultimate between square inches, the challenge to the cross-border definition of interchangeable lenses and portable computers, Pentax Q hands.

On the last day of free travel in Japan, I went to MapCamera in Shinjuku alone and bought this expensive toy-Pentaxq. Although I knew q was small, I didn't expect it to be so small. It is only the size of a palm, even smaller than semi-professional consumer machines such as CanonS95, PanasonicLX5 and RicohGRD, not to mention canon 12.

After paying the bill, Zero Zero always bought Q's fixed focus suit, original leather case, fisheye No.3, toy lens No.4 and No.5, and an expensive hood. After all, Taiwan Province Province is not sure whether these things will enter. Compared with the price of parallel imports in Taiwan Province Province, what I bought is actually not much cheaper. The key point is that those redundant surroundings may be difficult to see in Taiwan Province Province in a short time. Even if there is, the price will not necessarily be too cheap, because manufacturers dare not rush too much.

After I bought it, it was the beginning of my disaster ... because I couldn't read the map, I got lost, Orz. Probably the only advantage of getting lost is to walk from Shinjuku to the residential area in Yoyogi and take some photos out of the city.

I used Jump for three days in a row and learned some follow-up. Yes, this is an insight article, not a rigorous test article. I can't see my sister after lighting the lamp, but I still took a thousand sunsets and only picked one. But what can be guaranteed is that there is no substitute for the photos taken by other cameras.

Let's talk about q itself first. It's difficult to distinguish Q's small and delicate photos. Only by holding them in your hand can you understand why Pentax made such a product: a high-end portable machine advertised as interchangeable lenses. Seriously, I can't help you with this product positioning. The market may say that it is a micro-order. To be honest, I don't like this term. It's a little strange that even the reflector is removed. This is called a monocular camera. Q has made some attempts in different mainstream markets.

(The battery and memory card are only schematic diagrams, but they are actually loaded into the fuselage from the side. )

Take off the lens, the original CMOS of Q protrudes to the jade almost directly behind the lens, and then look at the configuration of the fuselage, which is simply a sandwich! In front of it is a photosensitive element, with a memory card and a battery in the middle, and behind it is a 960,000-pixel 3-inch LCD occupying 3/4 area. In the case of the whole internal space, it is no wonder that Q adopts aluminum-magnesium alloy skeleton. Because of such a structure and such a volume, the frame must be strong enough, otherwise how to protect the interior of Q?

The origin of these lenses seems to reveal some mysteries. The 47mmF 1.9 of standard mirror 0 1StandardPrime comes from Vietnam and is also the main lens producing area of Pentax. However, the 3, 4 and 5 plastic manual toy lenses are from Thailand. Does it mean that these three lenses were modified by Pentax surveillance camera lenses? And the future Pentax (or Ricoh? ) It is very likely that more surveillance camera lenses will be imported, and it is even possible that the vice factory will introduce adapter rings to transfer surveillance camera lenses.

However, it doesn't matter where the lens head comes from, because the expensive Q has ultra-cheap toy lenses, and the three lenses with the impression of 8800, 6000 and 6000 yen are simply ultra-cheap; Especially 03 fisheye can satisfy my resentment that I wanted to buy fisheye for many years, but I gave it up because it was difficult to apply it in the workplace!

The main 47mmF 1.9 is installed on the fuselage, which is slightly more prominent than the lens of a general consumer machine. Because the space of Q is full, the second half of the lens can no longer extend into the fuselage, which makes this lens more prominent than PentaxDA40mmF2.8.

(inexplicable combination ...)

Q's operation keeps Pentax's consistent style, and the keys are greatly simplified. Compared with Kr, the number of buttons is almost the same, while the green buttons keep the tradition that can be defined as AE-L, RAW switching and other functions. But the biggest feature is the front mode dial. He can be said to be the key soul to turn Q into a style. This turntable can be used as one of four modes: style shooting, color style, special effect filter and picture proportion, and each mode can be set with four quick-section gears.

The magical function of this turntable is to let the photographer preview in real time and see in advance what kind of scene will be shot by applying this mode. For those who like to play with colors, this turntable provides considerable flexibility: they can quickly change their common styles without entering any menus. Only one of the four modes can be selected. If more different modes can be provided, it should be able to meet the needs of another group of photographers with special needs.

In practical use, the shutter of Q is quite light. A little finger pressure will bring you into focus. In fact, the feeling of pressing the shutter is quite similar to Panasonic's GF series. After all, it is not a traditional reflector structure, and the reflector will not jump. 1 The focus speed of the standard fixed-focus lens is relatively fast, and red light is added to focus, but it is easy to lose focus when the reflective surface is in focus, but it is generally acceptable.

The focusing ring of 0 1 standard lens and the fixed-focus lens of GF series belong to electronic design. Touching will trigger the manual focusing mechanism. If there is a fixed focus amplification aid, it will be amplified immediately. The lens adopts internal focus and will not expand or contract. Because the apertures of the three toy lenses are fixed, manual focusing can't trigger the magnification mechanism (because the body can't judge the focus), so please look at the picture carefully and focus with the naked eye! The length of these three toy lenses will change with the change of focal length.

Another interesting thing about Q is the flash that can pop up, but it can also be triggered on the fuselage. Why do you need a pop-up design? The reason is that the low position of the original flash will cause shadows after the zoom lens is matched with the hood, so Pentax has made a subtle but acceptable high-angle flash design.

Why don't I just buy a zoom and make a big set? Let's just say. At present, the definition of Q is not to replace the monocular camera, but as a convenient product to take pictures with you. Although the zoom lens is convenient, the lens volume cannot be as small as this fixed focus, and the zoom lens will still be sold with this fixed focus. On the contrary, one of the lenses will freeze because of the waste effect in daily use, not to mention that the fixed focus of 47mm is almost the same as that of the naked eye. Why not?

As for buying a black-and-white fuselage, I actually chose it for a long time. The appearance of black Q is much more common than that of white Q, but I am really afraid that the scratch time of white will be worse than that of black, and black is more like PentaxAuto 1 10 made by Q, so I finally decided to buy the black version. The purchase of holsters is purely for protection.

Then there are some photos taken in the street. As I am not a professional photographer, I really don't know much about the light and shadow of aperture shutter, so I will use some hand-taken photos as models. Most of them are shot in P mode, and central metering is adopted. As for the most used color style, it is probably extremely rich in color, but this one is suitable for street shooting and scenery. If you shoot someone, it will turn yellow because of the skin color of the orientals. And I didn't use the background blur mode, because that wouldn't be why I bought Q.

If you want to say why there are no real girls, I'm sorry, I didn't take a dime from Fu Kun and Pentax, and I didn't know any good female friends (if An Tie asks me, I'll let him play Q himself), so almost all of them are street scenes, please forgive me. I'll take a look at some special functions of interval shooting later. This article is just some personal feelings, not a very rigorous comprehensive test. Please forgive me. After all, I'm not in charge of promoting sales for agents.

The pre-order ceremony is really not attractive at all! )

Shinjuku Street is colorful.

Shinjuku Street, color separation. By the way, you can set to capture two colors this time.

Shinjuku Street is very colorful on the left and bright in standard mode on the right.

Shinjuku Street is colorful.

Shinjuku street, retro

Shinjuku Street is colorful.

Shinjuku Station is extremely colorful.

Shinagawa, hotel elevator, colorful

Haneda Airport +03 fisheye, with extremely rich colors.

Haneda Airport +03 fisheye, with extremely rich colors.

Taipei, Guanghua Shopping Mall, colorful.

Taipei, ancient pavilion, cartoon mode

Japanese restaurants in Taipei and Gu Ting are retro.

Taipei, a cafe in Gu Ting, is retro.

Taipei, a coffee shop in Gu Ting, is very colorful.

Taipei is a cafe in Gu Ting, which is very colorful.

Taipei, home, watercolor

Taipei, Home +04W, Retro

Taipei, Gu Ting's coffee shop +03 fisheye, with bright colors.

Taipei, Tianmu Tomato Restaurant, retro.

Taipei, a coffee shop in Tianmu +03 Fish Eye, is bright.

Taipei, a coffee shop in Tianmu +04W, retro.

Taipei, Tianmu +03 Fish Eye Coffee Shop, retro (warm red)

Taipei, in front of the station, comics.

Taipei in front of the station is colorful.

Wanhua Taipei is colorful.

Wanhua Taipei is colorful.

Wanhua Taipei is colorful.

Wanhua Taipei is colorful.

After playing for three days, although most of Q gave me a positive impression, I still have to ask some questions about Q. First of all, if you were an old Pentax player before, I think you will be disappointed to shoot Night Star. At present, the four lenses at hand can't shoot a star as tight and sharp as PentaxDA 15mmF4, but at best it is a better DC. In addition, there is no gyroscope in the fuselage, so it is impossible to automatically correct the photos taken vertically.

The second is endurance. Although the book data of 200 sheets is already very tragic, the actual use is even mostly around 100 ~ 150 sheets. It's really miserable to go out for a day without two batteries, so I bought two auxiliary batteries in Taiwan Province Province long before I left. Fortunately, the battery used in Q has been widely used in many consumer cameras, so the battery technology of the vice factory is mature, but I would suggest that since the battery of the vice factory is not expensive, bring more batteries.

But there is no way to do this, because the structure of Q is full. If you want a large-capacity battery, it can't be so small and cute. Q is designed purely for small, there is no other way. I hope that the next generation of models can try to improve their endurance.

As far as the quality of the photos is concerned, it is really surprising, because the quality of the pictures taken in a small volume is actually quite good, and the standard mirror is quite enough. Unfortunately, the minimum aperture can only be reduced to f8.0, but it is not bad to take pictures. As for the other three shots, written by ToyLens, the picture quality is not the key. Shooting with retro style has a unique flavor. Do you want to see the Lomo lens of the telescope on the 4th and the 5th, but I strongly recommend it if there is an opportunity. I won't regret it! (But Fu Kun seems to have failed. )

After personally using it, I can understand why Ricoh CEO said Q was HoyaPentax's best dowry for Ricoh. In addition to conforming to Ricoh's retro appearance, Q is indeed a small toy with great personality and characteristics. But I think the sales of this machine in Taiwan Province Province will not be very good, mainly due to the lack of brand strength. For example, GRD4 will still attract die-hard supporters, because Ricoh has always taken the retro route and laid a good foundation, but Pentax really didn't leave much impression on most consumers in Taiwan Province Province except Rainbow Corps and CEO.

However, Q did do something that a senior mentioned many years ago, why the camera can't be changed. Indeed, Q is not a professional camera, but the characteristics of interchangeable lenses give him more possibilities. Q may not be a high-quality camera worthy of his price, but it is a lightweight product that you can take out without any burden.

As for the month of 10, will it be better for Ricoh and Pentax to merge? Objectively speaking, at least Ricoh is a camera company compared with Hoya, which sells raw materials. Moreover, Ricoh has also produced lenses corresponding to the old Pentax fuselage before. Perhaps under Ricoh's packaging management, Pentax has the opportunity to reverse its current image. Now the market has been rumored that Pentax will produce an evil camera with a larger photosensitive element in June+10, 5438. Maybe, like Q, it is a new product that is contrary to the existing impression on the market?